city post jobs

superbad50

hi guys,

does anybody know when and where the city post jobs will be advertised. i seen on the news today that they are creating 180 jobs in Dublin.

kind regards

Eoin

Moved to "work / jobs", not really a work problem.

RATM

I think they're creating the jobs over the course of X amount of years, not all in one batch AFAIK. They're primarily based in Ballymount, Dublin but they are also looking for people to work in 30 odd locations across the country. Not sure when applications open - you should ring them to find out.

superbad50

tnx ratm. Ye some good news for the country. sorry op

The Aspirations Coach

hi, haven't seen any vacancies advertised yet but definitely get in touch with them! Linkedin could be useful in this respect if you can found out who will be in charge of recruitment!

donkey balls

Op what kind of job are you interested in they were advertising for ops managers in Lisbon on one of the job sites,I reckon if your looking to drive for them you will need your own van(known in the industry as owner driver) if it is a driving job that your after study the contract very closely before signing any thing.

Jarren

Hi OP

I just applied for a job with them

http://www.citypost.ie/post/careers.html

Straight away I got automatic reply


Hi

Thank you for your CV application
We have had an unprecedented response to our announcement
We will be reviewing all applications over the next few weeks and will contact you should we
wish to progress with your application

Kind Regards,


..........
Human Resource Department

CityPOST Limited
G12 Calmount Park
Ballymount
Dublin 12
Main Line : 01 4290113
Fax : 00353-1-4600213
Website : www.citypost.ie

CityPOST :Irelands Newest Business Postal Provider

“Appointed Nationwide Distributors of the Phone Book & The Golden Pages in Ireland & Portugal”
“ireland’s Appointed Industry Representative at the European Letterbox Marketing Association”


Good Luck OP !!!!!

starlit

Ya I sent a CV to them and got an automatic response from them too. Say it be a hectic process!

superbad50

at this stage I would take any type of job , tnx for that donkey balls. i will check out

xkariex

Anyone hear anything back from them? Bar the generic message

Jarren

Bump

gline

Just sent in a cv also, would be inerested to hear if anyone heard back from them also.

bilko1234

Anyone hear from CityPost re jobs announcement in early June?
Apart from automated response?
Anyone called for (or hear of anyone called for) interview yet?

Jarren

bilko1234 wrote: »

Anyone hear from CityPost re jobs announcement in early June?
Apart from automated response?
Anyone called for (or hear of anyone called for) interview yet?

nope,haven't heard anything despite having relevant experience/certs require for this type of work:(.I suspect that it has something to do with one of the questions they asked.

what is your desired salary?

:pac:

Moose31

Hello all,

I don't wish tobe repeating what questions have gone before but just wondering does anyone know of anyone who's been called for interview/aptitude test for jobs with Citypost????? Or is this just a big White Elephant of a publicity stunt????

I really wish to work for postal service but have just received generic reponse as above!!!!!

Moose31

germanator

ive been called by them today asking me to go for an interview next week in wexford!! The girl said wages €9 an hour plus expense's for my own car!! Anyone else been called?

starlit

Congrats. No haven't been called at all. Sent my CV to them months ago. Good luck with it. Definitely go for the interview. Good luck!

germanator

Thanks!! i originally applied for a phone book delivery job for a 6 week period but they rang me and asked would i be interested in the delivery job in my area so i suppose no harm going to the interview and getting the full details!!

donkey balls

Are you required to use your own car for the job delivering?

Moose31

Congrats Germanator I applied a few times but still have not heard anything back.....good luck with interview give it a good welly.Let us know how you get on.

Best of luck.....

Moose31:)

boroman

The delivery guys from City Post were delivering golden pages/ phone books in Listowel today, Nov.7th. Books were thrown outside every door, regardless of whether the house was occupied or not. Shop fronts having private doors even got them on the double. Have just had a walk around the town, the streets are littered with the books. If their proposed postal service is anything similar, I, for one would not be depending on them with my few letters and packets this Christmas. I do not think An Post have to be worried.

Delancey

donkey balls wrote: »

Are you required to use your own car for the job delivering?

Excellent question , would like to know if that is the case if the '' expenses '' will cover the huge jump in Car Insurance caused by using it for work ??

germanator

i hear there were complaints in some areas, but the people delivering the phone books are not actuall city post delivery people they are hired by city post just for the phone books and have nothing to do with the post delivery... all phone book deliveries are checked up on when the people say they are finished and random calls made to houses in the area... if there are any of the rules being broke the person will not be paid!!

as for the driving of your own car, your fuel cost is paid plus you can either have the extra on your insurance paid for or else you can be covered by citypost insurance within working hours, the latter being my choice as if anything does happen its their insurance paying not mine!

donogca

Hi all,

I was employed by Citypost in late September. They are the worst company I have ever worked for!
I was told I had to use my own car initially but they reassured me that I would have a company van within three months. I was also promised a 45 hour week at €9.00 a hour, loading bay stickers for my car, a warehouse to sort out deliveries, a training day etc!
I worked for this useless company for eight weeks. I took three weeks for them to pay me initially after much bother. I quit the job a few weeks ago as they hadn't paid me for four weeks of expenses and two weeks of wages. They still haven't paid up after many phone calls and emails.

I had one 45hour week in the eight weeks of employment. I never received loading bay stickers for my car so I had to park illegally when delivering in the city. There was no warehouse to sort out my deliveries so I had fill my car to bursting point and do my sorting inside my car which was no easy task.

Stay away from this company. Their system is awful! Their pickups go through "An Post" and it takes up to two weeks. I had complaints every week from clients that their post was taking over a week to get delivered!

I hope this company fails! The sooner the better.

Moose31

Hi Donogca,

Very sorry to hear your bad luck with Citypost,I'm sure you're glad to be gone out of there.They sound like a very badly run company alright,id say An Post have nothing to be worried about!!!!
I really wish to work in Postal system myself just hoping An Post will take on some people in the coming few years.I applied to Citypost a couple of times heard nothing back......i certainly won't be gooing near them now!!!

Hope you find something so0n Donogca...

All the best,

Moose31

donogca

Thanks Moose31,

No wonder the country is the way it is with these companies treating people like sh*t!

I qualified as a commercial pilot in the late Summer so hopefully I will get a job soon

Cheers

donkey balls

donogca wrote: »

Thanks Moose31,

No wonder the country is the way it is with these companies treating people like sh*t!

I qualified as a commercial pilot in the late Summer so hopefully I will get a job soon

Cheers

Have you sent in your CV to FR via Caa systems or oaa they normally take on cadets with no jet time,As for city post they will never be able to take on the big players in the parcel delivery game as you need very good infrastructure with depots around the country.
and as for them taking on the likes of an post and to go after the likes of the utilities companies to.deliver their post most people get there bills online or will in the future.

Vanderman

Hi Donogca. I too work for citypost and i cant get paid. Thanks to them i am potless , i dont know what to do, i cant afford to take a loss, have you any suggestions,

Delancey

Do Citypost seek proof that staff have upgraded their motor insurance to cover them for work ?
Do they actually require you to produce your certificate ?

donkey balls

Delancey wrote: »

Do Citypost seek proof that staff have upgraded their motor insurance to cover them for work ?
Do they actually require you to produce your certificate ?

I have a funny feeling that they don,t give a flying fook about insurance cover like goods in transit insurance etc also this thing of getting stickers for a private car in order for it to park in loading bays etc is another load of crap.
There is no exceptions to the rules of private cars parking in loading bays end of I have a funny feeling people could be phoning into joe complaining of these company practises,And as someone who has worked in the express logistics I never heard of contractors//employees using there own private cars to deliver or collect pacels/mail.

donogca

Hi all,

donkey balls (great name!), I applied to Ryanair through CAE and OAA but it can be a long wait. Hopefully the new year will bring a few interviews

Vanderman, what location are you in? I have been hounding them daily but to no avail. My manager and the HR manager have both quit so I am dealing with another man who doesn't seem to know what he's doing! I am going to take legal action after Christmas. PM to discuss further.

In relation to insurance, I was reassured that I would have company insurance during working hours. I would actually like to see this in writing because I guarantee you I wasn't covered.

Stay away from this company at all costs. If you know anybody using it or anyone working for them please let them know!!

john256

biggest joke of a company i have ever came across,i was made unemployed a cpl of years back and have had no luck getting a job since anyway i saw these positions advertised to deliver the phone books so i said id have a crack at it to try and earn a few bob for the christmas anyway eventually i was called to a company briefing in tralee where a citypost hr person gave us the low down on what the job involved we where to be paid 40 cent per delivery in rural ireland and 23 cent per delivery in urban areas (towns etc) i did my sums and figured i could make a few small bob,you have to use your own van and do not get any expenses for diesel anyway i gave it a go they give you a map of an area and you follow each and every road on the map marking off the roads as you deliver the books there are 2 types;a double set including the golden pages and a single set with just a phone book you might get 300 doubles and 100 singles for an area to deliver anyways i loaded my van with books and started my deliverys it was hard work on man and van but i stuck at it and kept the head down thinking about having a few bob for christmas,when your finished the map you return it to citypost and they will ring a few customers on the route to verify you have delivered the they will pay you anyway i did 3 or 4 maps and sent them back to the company 5 weeks later no money after repeated phone calls i eventually got some money in my account that barely covered my diesel costs after enquiriing from the company what maps i have been paid for they told me and then told me that we where only getting 10cents for the delivery of single books!! there was no mention of this in the contracts we signed and no mention in the briefing we got.i spoke to the person in hr today that gave the briefiing and she said she made it clear at the briefing that it was 10 cent for single books and i and many others that where at the briefing am 100 percent sure that it was not mentioned anyway its a battle with this company to even get anyone to ring you back not to mind getting paid off them,they owe me the bones of 500 euro for the work i have done and its like trying to get blood from a stone
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES TAKE A JOB FROM THIS COMPANY DELIVERING PHONE BOOKS

unseenfootage

^ I had a similar experience with them when they were still "Door to Door" Everything went very well and there were no disagreements about pay rates.

They took too long to pay, with the result that I could not keep up with the fuel expenses and so I was forced to quit. Struggled to get the balance of cash from them. Very unpleasant experience.

john256

looks like i have got to the bottom of my problems as set out above having been contacted by the managing director this evening,all rates how now been confirmed as agreed previously
thank you city post

bennyineire

Wow John that was hard work reading your comment, I usually hate when people give out about poor punctuation but in this case there is a point to be made, just through and ould comma here and there to split up the text.
The spelling or grammar doesn't have to be spot on in my book but just try to break up the text now and again, your comment is like looking at an sql statement.
Anyway that's beside the point, I was considering doing this kind of work a couple of weeks ago but it just didn't seem right to me, it seemed like a lot of driving without any guarantees.
I'm sorry you had to find out the hard way but if its any consolation to you, I'm sure a lot of people won't go near this crowd thanks to you.

Sir Oxman

This is an awful company - stay clear.

john256

bennyineire wrote: »

Wow John that was hard work reading your comment, I usually hate when people give out about poor punctuation but in this case there is a point to be made, just through and ould comma here and there to split up the text.
The spelling or grammar doesn't have to be spot on in my book but just try to break up the text now and again, your comment is like looking at an sql statement.
Anyway that's beside the point, I was considering doing this kind of work a couple of weeks ago but it just didn't seem right to me, it seemed like a lot of driving without any guarantees.
I'm sorry you had to find out the hard way but if its any consolation to you, I'm sure a lot of people won't go near this crowd thanks to you.

im sorry for the bad punctuation,i am well able to do it,just a little lazy i suppose.

ZeroThreat

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Shoegazing

So I was offered a six week contract with Citypost this week delivering directories and leaflets but having read this thread I'm not sure if I should go for it.

Anyone have any more recent experience with them?

Thanks

germanator

I have worked delivering the phone books for them which was fine and i had no problems getting paid etc. But i would not do it again unless i was given town locations as i was given rural areas and with the distance between most of the houses it cost me about half of what i made just on diesel!

Joesph30

I see thr. They are jobs posted for this company still. Has thr been an improvement,?