Royal Mail Xmas Casuals

Lethal`

Lethal`

Lethal`

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I'm desperately trying to get some part time work. Although it is not permanent I have a 'registration day' with Royal Mail this week for Mail Sorting. Has anyone done this before, what's it like?

Also, any tips for the 'registration day' or an idea of what it might involve?

I'm not expecting it to be a great environment to work in and I've heard the experience will be an eye-opener.
 
I did this last year. At the registration day you bring all the documents they've asked for (NI card, passport, birth certificate, two passport photos, photocopies of all the documents including the cover of your passport for some reason :confused:) fill out a few forms (including the official secrets act I think) and then tell them where and when you want to work.

That should be it. They should give you a start date, there might be a training day but probably not.
 
I did it for 3 days about 6 years ago and it was the WORST thing I have ever done.

Good pay (especially if you do the night shift), but it is mind numbingly boring and I wanted to kill myself whilst I was there. Also, the plastic seat I had to sit on made my arse hurt.
 
ScarySquirrel said:
I did it for 3 days about 6 years ago and it was the WORST thing I have ever done.
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Really? It's moving letters and packets from one pile to another. It's boring but it's not that bad and there's always a chance you'll be offered a full time role in the Royal Mail afterwards (not necessarily in the sorting office).
 
I don't mind repetitive work too much, as long as it's busy and fast-paced which I would expect for Xmas.

So basically as long as my documents check out fine (could be complicated due to change of name this year) and they are happy with my hours I'll be fine? Sounds good.
 
Lethal` said:
I'm desperately trying to get some part time work. Although it is not permanent I have a 'registration day' with Royal Mail this week for Mail Sorting. Has anyone done this before, what's it like?

Also, any tips for the 'registration day' or an idea of what it might involve?

I'm not expecting it to be a great environment to work in and I've heard the experience will be an eye-opener.
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Its certainly an eye opener.

I did it in 2008 and back doing it this year.

Registration is easy, just takes around 2 hours (lots of waiting). Make sure you take all the documents and photo copies they have asked you to in the emails or else they will not see you.

Generally its an early, late or night shift available for 8 hours between certain dates.

The work is easy but boring, best to get a job moving around abit rather than standing at a machine for 8 hours as your back will kill. Also everyone always seems to be on a break, not that I complained when I was sent on one as long as the time was payed for.

There is one "training" day lasting like 2 hours, where you sign some more stuff like their secrets act and then watch some video about Royal Mail.
 
I'd forgotten about the video. It's your usual health and safety stuff. You should get paid for the afternoon too (~£15).

The shifts are something like 6am-2pm, 2pm-10pm and 10pm-6am.
 
2 hours registration :o

Is working on the weekend accepted well? Just I don't think I'll be able to commit much during the weekdays as I'm at uni.
 
jp_bl_68 said:
It was closer to 3 hours when I did it, back log due to people not having all the relevant photocopies.
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This really bugged me.

Loads of people, mainly foreign, looking like they were straight off the boat and hardly spoke English had loads of incorrect paper work and no copies. So they took ages to sort out. My actual time in front of someone must have been under 5 mins.
 
greywolf said:
Loads of people, mainly foreign, looking like they were straight off the boat and hardly spoke English had loads of incorrect paper work and no copies. So they took ages to sort out. My actual time in front of someone must have been under 5 mins.
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Same here. Out of the 100+ people at my registration day I was probably the only white guy there.
 
Yeah, it's not really an interview, just an official thing where they take details and you fill out forms.

The work I did with them was with larger packages, just sorting them into big boxes accoring to postcodes and when full replacing the big boxes with new ones using a pallet truck. I did letters once or twice for a few minutes, that was tedious and you need to be trained on the postcodes too to do it properly which I wasn't. Packages was fine though, boring of course and standing up all day but some really easy money overall!

I did get an email from them about doing it again this year but being at uni until the 10th Dec or so I don't suppose I can do.
 
Dr.EM said:
I did get an email from them about doing it again this year but being at uni until the 10th Dec or so I don't suppose I can do.
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It's probably too late to do anything about it now but did they give you any dates? When I did it we didn't start till the 12th (I think) and stopped on Christmas Eve.
 
Looks like I'd have to fill it all out to find out any dates. Mabye I should do anyhow, though I expect it's mostly full by now. That said I was only reserve last year and got in because hundreds never showed! Was only a day or two late getting it done and it filled up.

As others have said, expect to be with lots of foreign people most of whom don't speak english, or barely do. Must be over here with some work visa I guess? I'm sure there's plenty of willing British citizens willing to do this work though, students, unemployed etc.
 
I did it for one day about 4 years ago.
The guy who drove the bus to the place was a skinhead racist who threatened two black gentleman with death as they cut him up on a roundabout and i was one of 3 English speaking people who did the sorting, the other 2 were nutjobs.
never again
 
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