New National policy - DPR loading Vans

[Clappedoutpostie]

It’s a waste of time handling them indoors and again whilst loading the van, much better and far quicker doing it as u load the van.

No it is not, fannying around scanning 120 items that only just fit in the van out in the yard not only takes longer but you cannot load the van safely to stop load shift when driving.
I've seen driving wasting 5 mins trying to find a parcel that's been buried by the load falling over.

Nah might take an extra 5 or 10 minutes to pull the ones at the front of the van forward after you have got rid of the 1st 40 or 50 at the back but that’s it. 30 mins to number and load 120 straight into the van and away, would take too long numbering them indoors and handling them twice.

[menditsa]

Load your van in the order u want to deliver them saves so much time

I do after numbering inside the depot, wheeling the yorks out and spending 10 mins loading.
Now I have be outside in all weather conditions for an hour, can't wait for a heavy rainy day when all the cardboard boxes will be soaked thro aswell as me

[Hitcher]

Load your van in the order u want to deliver them saves so much time

Why not just rearrange the route beforehand.

I've never understood why people number them - it's a complete waste of time.
Simply use the tools provided ie the van loading guide.

[2chorizon]

Sounds like some peeps have been rumbled!

This sounds like people wanting to hang around indoors before going out.

[Peabrain22]

Take the york out to the back of the van scan them as quickly as possible in core route or dpr put them into the areas that you would always know you can pull from when your in your estates.. wasting time writing numbers on them is a no no for me and yet another 10 minutes wasted..

[Hitcher]

Take the york out to the back of the van scan them as quickly as possible in core route or dpr put them into the areas that you would always know you can pull from when your in your estates.. wasting time writing numbers on them is a no no for me and yet another 10 minutes wasted..

They should already be scanned to a DPR route though.

[Ren Hoëk]

When im instructed to get the packets out and abandon the mail this is how I do it. Roll the york out into the yard and list them up as I "Place" them in.

You're not doing a DPR route, you're doing 2 walks with small packets on a walk you know very well, we are doing mostly large covering up to 8 walks that is allocated randomly each day..

Its the exact same method when we had our large packets. Just roll them out into the yard and load them in. Im a spare, i get chucked around.Im still loading 100+packets large and small into the van.

I suspect all that is happening is you are being asked to do something differently to what you are used to and from experience the people of RM do not adapt well to change but once its bedded in people stop complaining.

[Ren Hoëk]

Load your van in the order u want to deliver them saves so much time

I do after numbering inside the depot, wheeling the yorks out and spending 10 mins loading.
Now I have be outside in all weather conditions for an hour, can't wait for a heavy rainy day when all the cardboard boxes will be soaked thro aswell as me

hahahahahahaha. Mate you are in the wrong job if you cant hack getting wet. It sucks but its very much part of the job. God knows how many soggy packets and letters iv handed over in my time.

[PleasedButSticky]

I don't number, I throw them in straight from the york in alphabetical order in columns in the van. Works for me 99% of the time, takes seconds to find a parcel at your stop.

[menditsa]

hahahahahahaha. Mate you are in the wrong job if you cant hack getting wet. It sucks but its very much part of the job. God knows how many soggy packets and letters iv handed over in my time.

I've done my time a plenty cycling to my walk and getting soaked thro and getting the customer ask why is my mail wet
But your correct my time has come to move on.

[ted_e_bear]

I don't number, I throw them in straight from the york in alphabetical order in columns in the van. Works for me 99% of the time, takes seconds to find a parcel at your stop.

When I first read that I thought what, so Mr Aardvark lives closest and Mrs Zebedee lives the furthest away, that's very decent of them

Yeah I think know what you mean really, so you put them in alphabetical street order then it's fairly easy to find them going by what the PDA tells you is the next stop ?

[eviljack]

I don't number, I throw them in straight from the york in alphabetical order in columns in the van. Works for me 99% of the time, takes seconds to find a parcel at your stop.

Hey, that's not a bad idea!

I always feel like taking longer to do the van loading/numbering thing takes a bit longer to get out, but saves time once you're out.

If I just load up the van in terms of streets/walks I always need to keep stopping to have a tidy - and quite often I've missed something and have to go back somewhere.

[SkiSunday]

I don't number, I throw them in straight from the york in alphabetical order in columns in the van. Works for me 99% of the time, takes seconds to find a parcel at your stop.

Hey, that's not a bad idea!

I always feel like taking longer to do the van loading/numbering thing takes a bit longer to get out, but saves time once you're out.

If I just load up the van in terms of streets/walks I always need to keep stopping to have a tidy - and quite often I've missed something and have to go back somewhere.

How do you even have time to go back with missed stuff?

[Hitcher]

Why aren't any of you using the van loading tool on the PDA? It's so much simpler than numbering or alphabetising!

[eviljack]

I don't number, I throw them in straight from the york in alphabetical order in columns in the van. Works for me 99% of the time, takes seconds to find a parcel at your stop.

Hey, that's not a bad idea!

I always feel like taking longer to do the van loading/numbering thing takes a bit longer to get out, but saves time once you're out.

If I just load up the van in terms of streets/walks I always need to keep stopping to have a tidy - and quite often I've missed something and have to go back somewhere.

How do you even have time to go back with missed stuff?

Haha good question...