Substandard equipment and postie performance

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Because of this, he: (i) misdelivered an item to the wrong Forest Road (we have two such roads on our patch); (ii) was unable to find two residential roads that have been built in the last 10 years and as a result brought back 15 parcels as check address/inaccessible. Also, he didn’t adhere to DPR standards and thus brought back an excessive quantity of 739’d work. Nice bloke but not very good.

Apparently, if you scan a parcel and you're down the wrong street when you scan it - the PDA now alerts you. Haven't tried it out yet!

I'm not a DPR driver but I imagine if someone else had scanned the parcels in and given them to a driver to take out, does that mean that the estimated delivery window is way off?

The “alert” hasn’t been brought in in our area as yet - perhaps it is being piloted elsewhere first. But “geofencing” — which is what it would be called — would be a great idea and would prevent 95% of misdeliveries. Amazon have used it for many years now, and I think DPD may do the same thing nowadays. It isn’t perfect thoufh — as an Amazon driver, I often had to call Driver Support for them to override the geofencing as the pin was not placed correctly on the map etc, etc.

[oypostie]

Amazon have used it for many years now

Well it doesn't work then as i find Amazon parcels in the wrong places on virtually a daily basis. Usually wrong block of flats or similar sounding road e.g. Amazon Road rather than Amazon Close

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Amazon have used it for many years now

Well it doesn't work then as i find Amazon parcels in the wrong places on virtually a daily basis. Usually wrong block of flats or similar sounding road e.g. Amazon Road rather than Amazon Close

Driver is spoofing his GPS signal to circumvent it then, most likely a Flex driver (someone in their car doing it as an income top-up). Won’t be long before he/she is “ineligible to participate in the program” or whatever hilarious wording they use when offboarding an unsuitable driver.

[Dorset Plodder]

I have real sympathy for Christmas Parcel Drivers, and Reserves in General. It must be stress city when they've got a van full of packets covering duties they're not that familiar with.

As an experienced Duty Holder the ability to switch your Duty about to account for Specials and multiple parcel drops to certain addresses is a godsend.
To any Reserves: Try not to get stressed about Christmas .... your Manager will want you out there delivering 100% until Stupid O'clock, while he's knocked off early and buggered off home!

You've got finish time, stick to it if you don't want the overtime.

[fadetogrey63]

I have real sympathy for Christmas Parcel Drivers, and Reserves in General. It must be stress city when they've got a van full of packets covering duties they're not that familiar with.

As an experienced Duty Holder the ability to switch your Duty about to account for Specials and multiple parcel drops to certain addresses is a godsend.
To any Reserves: Try not to get stressed about Christmas .... your Manager will want you out there delivering 100% until Stupid O'clock, while he's knocked off early and buggered off home!

You've got finish time, stick to it if you don't want the overtime.

Yep I'm doing my 1st eve shift this week on parcels, 1 till 7pm, I know I'm going to get lumbered with duties I don't know and I'm dreading it, esp when it gets dark.. I know I will get stressed out, I'll have to get someone to scan the parcels in for me on the app that sorts it out in order for you with the route directions