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Well, this week hasn’t been too bad so far with the new duty I’m covering, although I think the mail centre is beginning to send through some of the backlog they’ve obviously been holding back. Monday I started at 9:15 and once sorted and out I went round the duty in just under 3.5hrs and that was without knowing where I was going, not bad. Tuesday I went in at 8:15 to find a huge pile of mail on the frame to be sorted, not an easy task when you don’t know where any of the streets are in the frame, means looking at the address on the letter then trying to find the street then house number in the frame to put in the letter, took me ages and it was way after 11 by the time I got out delivering. There was also so much mail that it was almost 4pm when I finished and that was without taking any breaks/lunch etc. Manager asked if I would start at 8:15 again today and this time there wasn’t so much mail and I was out on time and finished on time even though there was still a lot of mail (5 bags I had on monday and 7 the past 2 days). Tomorrow I have been asked to go in at 7 and box in the duty all by myself, with no help. :o I only hope there’s not so much that I don’t get finished and out on time, or I could be delivering all day again. :( (Although I used the :( smilie there I’m actually loving the challenge and tomorrow will definitely be a challenge)

I am enjoying doing different duties although next week I am doing the duty I ended the week with last week, not too bad apart from one industrial unit. First time at the unit I walked through the gates to think ‘excellent, all units are clearly numbered’. This excitement lasted seconds, once I realised most of the mail only had business names and no unit numbers and the units weren’t named. Then to top it off I asked, in what used to be the main office, which businesses were where only to be told that they had no idea and the large location list on the wall outside their office hadn’t been updated in 3 years, bah! So I’m going to have fun there next week trying to find businesses again, may wander over to the frame for the duty and see if the regular guy is on it tomorrow and try and get some help/idea. Unfortunately this duty is not Saturday day off so no 3 weekends in a row for me. Thursday will be my day off next week, unless I work it.

I’m sure I had something else to write but can’t remember now, I’ve been disturbed so many times during this, ah well. :)

Signing off with: [The Islander by Nightwish] from the album [Dark Passion Play] [03:22/05:06]

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