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Delivery firm speeds up loading with wearable scanning technology
Lisa Kelly, Computing, 08 Nov 2007

Wearable scanning technology has helped cut loading times at TNT Express parcel warehouses by 30 per cent, as part of the firm’s wider mobile IT upgrade.

So far 155 staff are using the wearable system to scan parcel barcodes as they are loaded into delivery vans. And by March next year, 1,000 units of the technology ­ which was developed in partnership with Motorola ­will be rolled out across TNT’s network.

Freeing workers’ hands from the scanning procedure, along with updated mobile computers in drivers’ cabs, is improving the flow of data and helping sharpen the firm’s Track and Trace service, said TNT national information officer David Higgins.

“The flow of items through the network to the driver is now more efficient,â€
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They want to try delivering their own f*cking packets then, instead of letting us do it for them!
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saru wrote:They want to try delivering their own f*cking packets then, instead of letting us do it for them!
My sentiments exactly - we are sorting more and more packets for these tossers, with fewer and fewer sorters.
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dvbuk55 wrote:
saru wrote:They want to try delivering their own f*cking packets then, instead of letting us do it for them!
My sentiments exactly - we are sorting more and more packets for these tossers, with fewer and fewer sorters.

Because in 3/4/5 years time they will bring in machines to help with the sorting and then you'll not need as many sorters :so there
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disgruntledpostie1 wrote:
dvbuk55 wrote:
saru wrote:They want to try delivering their own f*cking packets then, instead of letting us do it for them!
My sentiments exactly - we are sorting more and more packets for these tossers, with fewer and fewer sorters.

Because in 3/4/5 years time they will bring in machines to help with the sorting and then you'll not need as many sorters :so there
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