Parcels through the roof, Mondays now very busy

[TopperGas]

It was another mad Wednesday in my DO today, it's hard to believe this is the quite spell before peak when most people are on holiday, instead of going away they must be sat at home just ordering more of the usual crap. If RM can't make profits when we're this busy they may as well just give up trying.

[jimmynailsalive]

Quietest I've ever seen mail yesterday and some loops had more packets than letters. Had around 150 tracks between us and tiny bundles of letters, probably pay the price for it today with letters. Took no time to get round though so nice considering the weather.

[SpacePhoenix]

Quietest I've ever seen mail yesterday and some loops had more packets than letters. Had around 150 tracks between us and tiny bundles of letters, probably pay the price for it today with letters. Took no time to get round though so nice considering the weather.

Don't know if it's all around the country but it looks like DOs are going to get slaughtered one day this week with Electoral Register letters going out.

[ted_e_bear]

Quietest I've ever seen mail yesterday and some loops had more packets than letters. Had around 150 tracks between us and tiny bundles of letters, probably pay the price for it today with letters. Took no time to get round though so nice considering the weather.

Don't know if it's all around the country but it looks like DOs are going to get slaughtered one day this week with Electoral Register letters going out.

If that's the one addressed "the occupier" and when you open it it's asking to only respond if the person/s living there differ from what it says we had them about 3 weeks ago.

Oh yeah they dripped through initially down to the dts system but then presumably hit the limit and most duties got 2 full trays so they gave us 2 days to deliver them so some will have been in rm's possession for 7 working days before delivery.

[SpacePhoenix]

Quietest I've ever seen mail yesterday and some loops had more packets than letters. Had around 150 tracks between us and tiny bundles of letters, probably pay the price for it today with letters. Took no time to get round though so nice considering the weather.

Don't know if it's all around the country but it looks like DOs are going to get slaughtered one day this week with Electoral Register letters going out.

If that's the one addressed "the occupier" and when you open it it's asking to only respond if the person/s living there differ from what it says we had them about 3 weeks ago.

Oh yeah they dripped through initially down to the dts system but then presumably hit the limit and most duties got 2 full trays so they gave us 2 days to deliver them so some will have been in rm's possession for 7 working days before delivery.

Don't know for sure if it was the Electoral Register letters we were putting through the machines last night, some areas it certainly was. The batch sizes were crazy (number of items) and most of it was released. I guess it's down to what service each council has used.

How many days did them trays sit under the walk prep frames for?

Packets have gone up over the last week or so, we've been having the odd day where we've had an extra setup for packets. Not seen any changes yet to the sizes of the items passing through, I was expecting to see a lot of the larger large items vanish, going over to PF.

[Smoothbackground]

Think it depends on the office and area. Since coming back from leave on Tuesday, I am noticing more big boxes than ever, including loads with Parcelforce labels on. Our semi-rurals are worst hit with this new work (our deep rurals have been deluged since last October and it is the norm anyway for those). Seems the flow of PFW work is two-way.

[qwerty2]

Quietest I've ever seen mail yesterday and some loops had more packets than letters. Had around 150 tracks between us and tiny bundles of letters, probably pay the price for it today with letters. Took no time to get round though so nice considering the weather.

Don't know if it's all around the country but it looks like DOs are going to get slaughtered one day this week with Electoral Register letters going out.

The local council deliver them - 2 walk around together - one holds the letters and gives one at a time and the other puts it through then go to the next door - you couldn’t make it up!!!

[ted_e_bear]

Don't know if it's all around the country but it looks like DOs are going to get slaughtered one day this week with Electoral Register letters going out.

The local council deliver them - 2 walk around together - one holds the letters and gives one at a time and the other puts it through then go to the next door - you couldn’t make it up!!!

I've had an idea to save that council £1000's...send them with the bin men they're going to every house anyway Wards missed a trick there as an advisor...expand the role of bin workers

[ted_e_bear]

Don't know for sure if it was the Electoral Register letters we were putting through the machines last night, some areas it certainly was. The batch sizes were crazy (number of items) and most of it was released. I guess it's down to what service each council has used.

How many days did them trays sit under the walk prep frames for?

They don't get left in trays at our place, prepped into the fittings though so only got left if there was nothing else for the same address.

[TopperGas]

Quietest I've ever seen mail yesterday and some loops had more packets than letters. Had around 150 tracks between us and tiny bundles of letters, probably pay the price for it today with letters. Took no time to get round though so nice considering the weather.

Don't know if it's all around the country but it looks like DOs are going to get slaughtered one day this week with Electoral Register letters going out.

If that's the one addressed "the occupier" and when you open it it's asking to only respond if the person/s living there differ from what it says we had them about 3 weeks ago.

Oh yeah they dripped through initially down to the dts system but then presumably hit the limit and most duties got 2 full trays so they gave us 2 days to deliver them so some will have been in rm's possession for 7 working days before delivery.

Don't know for sure if it was the Electoral Register letters we were putting through the machines last night, some areas it certainly was. The batch sizes were crazy (number of items) and most of it was released. I guess it's down to what service each council has used.

How many days did them trays sit under the walk prep frames for?

Packets have gone up over the last week or so, we've been having the odd day where we've had an extra setup for packets. Not seen any changes yet to the sizes of the items passing through, I was expecting to see a lot of the larger large items vanish, going over to PF.

Your joking aren't you with your last sentence, this was always going to be a case of posties getting shafted it's always the case.If a postie is already driving past a property what sense does it make for PF to deliver a parcel which RM can deliver?

[SpacePhoenix]

Your joking aren't you with your last sentence, this was always going to be a case of posties getting shafted it's always the case.If a postie is already driving past a property what sense does it make for PF to deliver a parcel which RM can deliver?

Not yet seen any PF parcels passing through so either they're going to the DOs as direct yorks or there hasn't been any yet.

[Shaugi]

We've had a couple of PF but nothing too big.

[TopperGas]

I've no idea how the new pricing structure etc works , if a PF customer now checks the cost to send a parcel and finds RM is cheaper than PF does it just get sent with an RM label, so nobody would ever know it would have been a PF parcel in the past?

[TopperGas]

I've no idea how the new pricing structure etc works , if a PF customer now checks the cost to send a parcel and finds RM is cheaper than PF does it just get sent with an RM label, so nobody would ever know it would have been a PF parcel in the past?

By chance today I had 4 heavy large parcels for a garage I've regularly delivered small parcels in the past, I wonder if they have used PF for them in the past?

[LouBarlow]

Letters seem to be back to average now. How strange. Still a ton of Amazon coming through though.