Current Mail Centres & Distribution Centres etc.

[wandle]

The rail-connected Royal Mail site at Willesden, North-West London was hailed as the best RDC (of an ever-decreasing number) earlier this year.
The then Plant Manager, Duncan Stephenson, was seen on a RMTV special, with a couple of misguided (some say sycophantic) staff appearing too.
Now he’s taken a big redundancy package and the incoming boss, Jan Wormald, has arrived and the site is no longer an RDC. Instead it is now known as Princess Royal Parcel Hub

[leamphil]

I’ve almost completed an updated mail centre list as of 2021 but have a couple of questions:

Have both Ipswich and Portsmouth Mail Centres closed now (IP codes to Chelmsford, PO codes to So’ton)?

There also appear to be some “parcel sort centres” - an International (inward) one in the Midlands, possibly at Atherstone, and one in the South East. Are these temporary/seasonal operations?

Also, on the list on page 1 both Dorset (Poole) MC and Bournemouth Air Hub are mentioned as sorting BH and DT codes. Is this correct and if so
how does it work?

Thanks in advance for any info.

How's the updated mail centre list going ?

[Lockardian]

I’ve almost completed an updated mail centre list as of 2021 but have a couple of questions:

Have both Ipswich and Portsmouth Mail Centres closed now (IP codes to Chelmsford, PO codes to So’ton)?

There also appear to be some “parcel sort centres” - an International (inward) one in the Midlands, possibly at Atherstone, and one in the South East. Are these temporary/seasonal operations?

Also, on the list on page 1 both Dorset (Poole) MC and Bournemouth Air Hub are mentioned as sorting BH and DT codes. Is this correct and if so
how does it work?

Thanks in advance for any info.

How's the updated mail centre list going ?

It’s pretty much completed as far as Mail Centres and DCs go (there may be extra DCs due to recent changes), and I’m aware of a few (temporary?) parcel sorting hubs.

What’s the best way to present it? I was thinking north to south by area rather than alphabetical. I’ll get onto it and post in an new thread soon.

[POSTMAN]

wiki?

List of mail centres
As of March 2021, the 37 operational mail centres (divided into Royal Mail regions) were:[134]

East: Chelmsford, Norwich, Nottingham, Peterborough, Romford, Sheffield, South Midlands (Northampton)
West: Birmingham, Chester, Manchester, North West Midlands (Wolverhampton), Preston, Warrington
South East: Croydon, Gatwick (Crawley), Greenford, Home Counties North (Hemel Hempstead), Jubilee (Hounslow), Medway (Rochester), London Central (Mount Pleasant)
South West: Bristol, Cardiff, Dorset (Poole), Exeter, Plymouth, Southampton, Swansea, Swindon, Truro
North: Aberdeen, Inverness, Carlisle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Northern Ireland (Newtownabbey), Tyneside/Newcastle (Gateshead)
Mail Centres in the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey are streamlined into the Royal Mail’s domestic network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Mail

[Lockardian]

I recently updated that list on Wikipedia. Are the “regions” official RM divisions? I’ve also seen the country split by RDCs and the MCs they tend to feed, but that’s more complex.

I have all the postcodes including BX codes etc dealt with by each MC, and a (complete?) list of DCs, and some of the temp-to-perm parcel sort centres. Quite a few changes since the list on page 1.

[SpacePhoenix]

I’ve also seen the country split by RDCs and the MCs they tend to feed, but that’s more complex.

If done by RDC then you'll get many MCs listed multiple times. We get mail from 3 different RDCs

[Lockardian]

Inverness, along with Norwich and Carlisle, have only dealt with 1C mail (with a few exceptions) since rationalisation. However, they have recently moved to new premises and I believe they are now processing some 2C packets rather than diverting them to Aberdeen. Can anyone confirm this?

[Tamsk]

From the LTB listing on-site clinics for the flu jab:

North West Midlands WR Worcester Mail Centre

This puzzled me; I thought Worcester had been downgraded to a DO (and MPU) years ago, with the MC functions being transferred to Birmingham? Or is it more complicated than that?