That would depend on there being staff in at the time of the "earlier" delivery of standard mech, if DO times are being pushed back, what staff would be in the DO to do this? As they would be geared to come into a DO for sequenced mail!Straight4ward wrote:As regards the walk sequencing machines:
I imagine that there are on site engineers who repair most faults.
With the number of machines at each mail centre, if one machine is not working then the work can be switched to another machine.
In our DO over roughly a 6 month period we've had only a couple of hiccups with the second (last) delivery of WS mail. On the first occasion it arrived nearly an hour late. This was in the very early days and I'm guessing that they didn't really have a contingency plan then. On the second occasion (contingency plan then in place, possibly?) the mail centre pushed it through as standard mech but we got it earlier than we would have done the WS so no harm done.
