hope I can some day get a job with royal mail. £9.00 an hour [zb] would feel like I had died and gon to heaven to get that much an hour 
. I some on here feel thats crap money but compared to what im on and whats on offer outside of so called unskilled work available theses days. I need to some how get with this company if I ever passed all these tests got to do for licents. anyone one know how most people get in with them ? start with angecy ? go direct ? start by driving vans with them ?
my head hurts
jrt:
hope I can some day get a job with royal mail. £9.00 an hour [zb] would feel like I had died and gon to heaven to get that much an hour
Make love to your hand? 
Start by making your post easy to understand, English might not be your first language, but your post is difficult to understand.
Sapper
sapper:
Start by making your post easy to understand, English might not be your first language, but your post is difficult to understand.Sapper
how can you not understand that ?
jrt:
hope I can some day get a job with royal mail. £9.00 an hour [zb] would feel like I had died and gon to heaven to get that much an hour
I can understand your post perfectly well. You’re right, some people will think that that’s crap money. That’s because the wages in this industry are generally staying the same or dropping year after year. The national minimum wage is rising, and lorry drivers’ wages are going down to meet it. Even the new ‘living wage’ is now £8.55 in London, and £7.45 in the rest of the UK, so the money isn’t that great compared with what is apparently a fair wage to live on.
To answer your question about how to get on with them - all of the ways you suggested could get you there. They do use agency drivers, and contacting any company direct is always worth a go, and if you already worked for them on vans you would have your foot in the door. Good luck with your quest.
jrt:
sapper:
Start by making your post easy to understand, English might not be your first language, but your post is difficult to understand.Sapper
how can you not understand that ?
Take no notice, apart from the spelling mistakes, punctuation and general grammar, it was a perfect post. 
Tried Poczta Polska? 
also rm pay more than £9 an hour to their own drivers, but the chances of just walking into a job driving an artic with them are very slim.
splitshift:
Tried Poczta Polska?
No, but I I’ve played Tritsch-Tratsch Polka ! 
gogzy:
also rm pay more than £9 an hour to their own drivers, but the chances of just walking into a job driving an artic with them are very slim.
''cos they won’t be recruiting until the MTSF job-shedding excercise is complete. VR is only being pulled out for a few at a time, unless the entire depot is closing. It’s a slow business. Should be finished in time for the general election, and a possible float, but that’s about it.
Can’t see it happening myself - the float that is, although it would be nice to see them recruiting again.
it would be nice, been doing the same run week in week out for the last 18 months nearly. youd think theyd take somebody on rather than agency. mind you they put their own guys in it twice to try fill it, both frigging useless and somehow screwed up the easiest of run…ever
seriously its easier than a trunk with a trailer swap.
right to get on with them is either look at royal mail jobs or register with manpower they have the national contract for royal mail its £9 day and i think £11.75 nights and overtime with different rates for sat and sunday (although never worked them enough to recall the exact amounts!).
i cant remember the last time i saw a class 1 job so think its the agency route!
Am I right in assuming that the fancy weekend rates you don’t get unless you’ve put in 40 hours @ £9 throughout the week?
Even Manpower around here don’t mention anything about £11.75 and upwards, but that may be because the only work they’ll ever have is short day shifts?
Makes it sound like the £14ph sundays being touted for Morrisons - but you’ve gotta put in FT hours @ £8.25 before you qualify including tuesday & wednesday 6am starts… You can’t just turn up and say “I’ll take a saturday & sunday night please!”, cos I tried… 
Winseer:
splitshift:
Tried Poczta Polska?No, but I I’ve played Tritsch-Tratsch Polka !
Is that part of the Polish Postal service as well? 
Not Prawo Jazdy again?
splitshift:
Winseer:
splitshift:
Tried Poczta Polska?No, but I I’ve played Tritsch-Tratsch Polka !
Is that part of the Polish Postal service as well?
It’s one of those tunes everyone’s heard, but few know the name of.
you serious £9 hr is not that great I earned more stacking shelves all night
bob96:
you serious £9 hr is not that great I earned more stacking shelves all night
It mite not be but your not on a good wage so you can get off your high ■■■■■■■ horse.
Assuming your a lorry driver and not a 16year old child.
I used to work at RM, the way i got a start was i had a friend who drove there. I got taken on as a postie sorting on nights.
The transport manager knew i had a class 1 so would borrow me from processing, then got moved sideways to transport
The pay was complicated, i got a basic postie wage then a lgv 1 rate, night rate, london weighting and others i dont remember.
The thing that got my goat was the seniority system. When they had resigns for duties, the more years you had the higher up the list you could choose 
Their were guys coming in from mail centres that were being closed with donkeys years behind them who were always pushing you down the list.
A friend still works there, doing night he’s on £35k plus 
Maybe i should have stayed