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MC/RDC updates please:xmas week

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MC/RDC updates please:xmas week

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Any chance you guys could give us an update during this week on what's happening at your MC/RDC.
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the secret warehouse is full and staffed with agency workers :wink:
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We finally cleared all the TRACKED MAIL in our MC for the first time in 3 weeks tonight!!!
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Not much Inward Foreign Mail arriving at Mount Pleasant as Heathrow has loads of flights cancelled because of snow.
I expect it will start arriving once they get the flights back on schedule, but probably too late for delivery before Xmas.
We are concentrating on getting letters out.
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Post by adb2aber »

Swindon (SN/OX/RG) switched to running all 3 shifts on inward packets yesterday, running manual/mech on both inward and outward, collection packets and maybe more diverted elsewhere. Backlog should be clear shortly, I don't envy the DOs being bulked out today.
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This weeks been as quiet as a normal week in the summer 6week holidays,non existant outward mail,with a fair bit of IPS,but nothing they cant handle.Most of the managers have too many staff/casuals for their areas,and are busy trying to get rid of staff!
same as it ever was...
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hubbahubba wrote:This weeks been as quiet as a normal week in the summer 6week holidays,non existant outward mail,with a fair bit of IPS,but nothing they cant handle.Most of the managers have too many staff/casuals for their areas,and are busy trying to get rid of staff!

Send them to deliveries - seriously do some of us are struggling with the weather, injuries and volumes. :pray

In all seriousness does any know why deliveries no longer get Xmas Casuals any more, MCs get them because of the increase but DOs who have to deliver it don't.
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We heard that HWDC is totally swamped with 53m items, despite having an Outhouse with hundreds of casuals next door.
And RM wanted to transfer more of the Inward Foreign mail there at beginning of December, now postponed to beginnng of January.
Makes you wonder how thy will cope next Xmas when they will supposedly be processing all the Inward and Outward Foreign mail.