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Container Fills

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welshy808
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Container Fills

Post by welshy808 »

We are currently in the middle of a Revision and my rep is trying to find out what the correct ACF's are and to which level in the trays these are counted for Manual Large Letters and Manual Large DSA.

Any help would be great thanks in advance
AnotherLimey
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Re: Container Fills

Post by AnotherLimey »

I counted ACFs before christmas, DSA was around 200 per tray and normal letters around 250, RM will tell you they average around 157 ;liar
taxi4leighton
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Re: Container Fills

Post by taxi4leighton »

the problem we have
is that many of the flat boxes have loads of letters in them
letters that arent being recorded
which leaves to IPS men on letters being accused of being to slow
even though they have sorted twice hte recorded figures
this has been happening for years
and despite protests. no improvement.
Also we find the boxes containing walk sequence mail are packed very tight
wonder if the figures for these are accurate
doubt it
you cant trust them
Cut Off King
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Re: Container Fills

Post by Cut Off King »

taxi4leighton wrote:the problem we have
is that many of the flat boxes have loads of letters in them
letters that arent being recorded
which leaves to IPS men on letters being accused of being to slow
even though they have sorted twice hte recorded figures
this has been happening for years
and despite protests. no improvement.
Also we find the boxes containing walk sequence mail are packed very tight
wonder if the figures for these are accurate
doubt it
you cant trust them
NO need to worry, the CWU & RM are going to have a new trust & co-operation agreement, soon we'll all be on the same side....
Red Robbo
MAIL CENTRES/PROCESSING
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Re: Container Fills

Post by Red Robbo »

welshy808 wrote:We are currently in the middle of a Revision and my rep is trying to find out what the correct ACF's are and to which level in the trays these are counted for Manual Large Letters and Manual Large DSA.

Any help would be great thanks in advance
It would be best to ask your local Work Load Assessment manager, incidentally ACF is what it says "average container fill" these figures are national figures and cannot be changed locally.
Lincox
EX ROYAL MAIL
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Re: Container Fills

Post by Lincox »

One figure suits all then
whatamess!!
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Re: Container Fills

Post by whatamess!! »

You do have a local figure! it won't be right but thats another story. :arrrghhh
haddie
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Re: Container Fills

Post by haddie »

there was an update in january this year
PhilthyPhil
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Re: Container Fills

Post by PhilthyPhil »

taxi4leighton wrote:the problem we have
is that many of the flat boxes have loads of letters in them
letters that arent being recorded
which leaves to IPS men on letters being accused of being to slow
even though they have sorted twice hte recorded figures
this has been happening for years
and despite protests. no improvement.
Also we find the boxes containing walk sequence mail are packed very tight
wonder if the figures for these are accurate
doubt it
you cant trust them
The mixed trays of letters and flats are probably those sorted on the TOPS2000 machine in the MC so the traffic will be recorded accuratly. Same goes for sequenced mail. How much mail in a tray is irrelevent for machine sorted mail as it counts how much mail goes through the machine to each selection not number of trays.