So latest update is now this…..the COM in charge stood the trial down this morning due to the mess and affect on individuals.
However now a new manager is being brought in to oversee and reinstate the trial
Another update from Winton
The New manager promptly again cancelled the trial after 90 mins , version 2 is now in operation which is the frameless DO concept amazingly using RM2000 frames . They are double slotted and laid out with no wings against the wall, IPS sorted into frame with D2D then taken out and merged into sequenced tray with small parcels. today they started at 0645 and last seen loading the van at 1020.
So latest update is now this…..the COM in charge stood the trial down this morning due to the mess and affect on individuals.
However now a new manager is being brought in to oversee and reinstate the trial
Another update from Winton
The New manager promptly again cancelled the trial after 90 mins , version 2 is now in operation which is the frameless DO concept amazingly using RM2000 frames . They are double slotted and laid out with no wings against the wall, IPS sorted into frame with D2D then taken out and merged into sequenced tray with small parcels. today they started at 0645 and last seen loading the van at 1020.
So latest update is now this…..the COM in charge stood the trial down this morning due to the mess and affect on individuals.
However now a new manager is being brought in to oversee and reinstate the trial
Another update from Winton
The New manager promptly again cancelled the trial after 90 mins , version 2 is now in operation which is the frameless DO concept amazingly using RM2000 frames . They are double slotted and laid out with no wings against the wall, IPS sorted into frame with D2D then taken out and merged into sequenced tray with small parcels. today they started at 0645 and last seen loading the van at 1020.
It they are back to using frames why don't they just put the sequenced etc into the frame and just keep the packets in trays, like we've always done in the past?
How would walk sorted packets work though ?
A PSM has limited selections/hoods it can sort into i would assume
1st pass to split/segregate the mail i guess
2nd pass to walk sort into DO selection
There could/would be 100's of walks being covered
Surely this would take ages would it not ?
I might be all wrong i have little idea of MC or PSM
I can't see how it can work, you'd be waiting ages for the process to finish and there isn't the room in the lorries, it'd all get chucked back together to get it into the lorries. Someone said in a past thread that any item can only ever be put through a PSM once.
It doesn’t matter that it’s the computer, the CSM machine, somebody put stuff in upside down, somebody didn’t generate labels:
what matters is the presentation of mail to delivery offices up and down the entire country is an utter shitshow most days.
We don't have the time to worry about that these days. The moment we've finished running the last batches on our machines we'll be moved to other work areas. Often we don't get time to even TPM the machines. It sounds like your local MC haven't got any free staff to print the labels some days, the system for printing labels is often very slow
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Christ, nobody in a mail centre even seems to have considered that the 400 trays of flats they’ve spotted getting sent out on a Tuesday morning might warrant firing out an email of warning
No DO would ever get 400 trays of flats. We don't scan trays/sleeves/yorks going out any more, that stopped over a year ago, we just scan them into the office. The managers won't have time to send out any emails as they're often on the sorting now and the work arrives into the MCs a lot later.
Flats and letters (manual) get sent on the same yorks, when a york is full it gets pushed out to distribution, we don't log in any sort of way what's going out to other offices. For the lorries coming into the MC all we get notified of is what time they're due to arrive, where they've come from and how many yorks are onboard (no info about the contents of the yorks)
Again, AGAIN you’ve just given a list of what happens and why it happens.
What we point out to you is it SHOULDNT happen. Do you agree?
Agree that if these things were addressed at source then it would have a hugely positive impact on the whole operation?
“We don’t have time”
Do you think that DOs are resourced on some sort of surplus basis where we all have plentiful time to stand and correct the many, many failings of processing prior to the mail going out the door?
I sometimes wonder how our friend would react at his centre if the lorries instead of pulling right up to the loading bay (or however they unload) just went as far as the main gates, opened the back, pushed everything out into a heap on the floor then said ‘sorry, we don’t have the time/staff, we’ve done our job and delivered it to the premises. Not our problem.’
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Cut the man some slack, he's not the Mail centre manager! I know too well how frustrating it is when a quarter of the mech comes in upside down/not in order, but at least he is giving us an insight of why these things happen.
Another update from Winton
The New manager promptly again cancelled the trial after 90 mins , version 2 is now in operation which is the frameless DO concept amazingly using RM2000 frames . They are double slotted and laid out with no wings against the wall, IPS sorted into frame with D2D then taken out and merged into sequenced tray with small parcels. today they started at 0645 and last seen loading the van at 1020.
I wouldn't put it past RM to bring in yet another manager to force the bench merging (version 1) in. Just the fact that they brought another manager in to implement it suggests that RM might be determined to bring in bench merging (version 1) no matter what
Another update from Winton
The New manager promptly again cancelled the trial after 90 mins , version 2 is now in operation which is the frameless DO concept amazingly using RM2000 frames . They are double slotted and laid out with no wings against the wall, IPS sorted into frame with D2D then taken out and merged into sequenced tray with small parcels. today they started at 0645 and last seen loading the van at 1020.
I wouldn't put it past RM to bring in yet another manager to force the bench merging (version 1) in. Just the fact that they brought another manager in to implement it suggests that RM might be determined to bring in bench merging (version 1) no matter what
Nor would I but I think it would fit in perfectly with Einstein's theory of insanity, no matter how many times they try it the end result will always be the same, it will never be more efficient.
Another update from Winton
The New manager promptly again cancelled the trial after 90 mins , version 2 is now in operation which is the frameless DO concept amazingly using RM2000 frames . They are double slotted and laid out with no wings against the wall, IPS sorted into frame with D2D then taken out and merged into sequenced tray with small parcels. today they started at 0645 and last seen loading the van at 1020.
I wouldn't put it past RM to bring in yet another manager to force the bench merging (version 1) in. Just the fact that they brought another manager in to implement it suggests that RM might be determined to bring in bench merging (version 1) no matter what
Had the same with recent revisions, top management coming in with their expertise telling us how it would work, 3 weeks later duties had 2 to 3 yorks of mail backed up and still they persisted for 4 months or more. And then had the gaul to tell the public there wasn't a backlog but if there was it was down to covid. And that's where I lost all trust
