Mail Centre rationalisation programme

markadam1962 · Post by **markadam1962** » 11 Jul 2012, 22:18

bandit650 wrote:You can take Canterbury MC out it has gone just a few bits left could not call it an MC,more like a ghost town.

Until we got lumbered with redirects from the "new" stalag 13 KMC because of a proposed visit from Moya....they seemed to have forgot that the staff had all gone to Medway. Still its a bit of final work for us casuals before we are left to turn out the lights!

Post by **POSTMAN** » 21 Apr 2013, 21:56

2013/14 - Proposed

•All Access mail circulated to Bradford Mail Centre to Leeds Mail Centre from July 2013
•All Access mail circulated to Darlington Mail Centre to Tyneside Mail Centre July 2013
•LE Postcoded mail circulated to Leicester Mail Centre to South Mids Mail Centre Sept 2013
•Shrewsbury Mail Centre to close Sept 2013
•All Access mail circulated to Hull Mail Centre to Sheffield Mail Centre Feb 2014
•All Access mail circulated to Doncaster Mail Centre to Sheffield Mail Centre April 2014
•GL Postcoded mail Gloucester to Bristol Jan 2014

Post by **dodger162** » 29 Sep 2013, 20:37

If you read the prospectus, there's some interesting stuff on Ops. There are over 400 pages, no I have not read it all! Target MCs is 37 which means no more closures after Ipswich & Portsmouth. Has this info been released anywhere else?

Post by **barrowc** » 29 Sep 2013, 21:12

They listed three closures for 2015/16 but didn't specify which offices. Ipswich and Portsmouth are known about but who is the third office?

Rommagic · Post by **Rommagic** » 14 Jul 2015, 16:30

Any update?

Post by **rainbowwarrior72** » 11 Nov 2015, 14:41

Ipswich downgraded to IVO status due to size of area basically inward work. Portsmouth basically closing in 2016 still nothing on a 3rd MC but Gatwick and Croydon merging on the cards due to Gatwick airport 2nd runway. Also Greenford MC on the proposed HS2 routing So another reshuffle on the cards 2020. Also whats the future with PRDC long term especially with the new interchange for Cross Rail being built at Oak Common a lot of Railway Depots ie Heathrow Express and others may have to move up to Willesden Junction right near PRDC. I have heard that RM are looking another site near Abbots Langley or Radlett

Post by **rainbowwarrior72** » 12 Oct 2016, 21:09

It has been announced Ipswich closing down next year and inward work moved to Chelmsford

Post by **the beautiful bd south** » 07 Jun 2017, 19:36

Rumour that the plans to install a parcel sorting machine into Leeds has been scrapped.

Wonder if this means that they finally agree that the building is not fit for purpose or more likely that the also rumoured Yorkshire super centre is on the horizon..

Deadly · Post by **Deadly** » 16 Jun 2017, 19:47

the beautiful bd south wrote:
Wonder if this means that they finally agree that the building is not fit for purpose or more likely that the also rumoured Yorkshire super centre is on the horizon..

So Leeds, Sheffield, Doncaster and Hull all under one roof? Interesting, I wonder where that would be built.

Post by db » 16 Jul 2019, 14:47

Does anyone know whats going into Warrington's super hub? Plenty of rumours going round!

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 16 Jul 2019, 20:17

db wrote:Does anyone know whats going into Warrington's super hub? Plenty of rumours going round!

If it's the new parcel hubs that you're refering to, it's ALL Tracked and any normal parcel that's larger than a shoebox.

Post by db » 17 Jul 2019, 13:52

SpacePhoenix wrote:
db wrote:Does anyone know whats going into Warrington's super hub? Plenty of rumours going round!
If it's the new parcel hubs that you're refering to, it's ALL Tracked and any normal parcel that's larger than a shoebox.

Do you know Which mail centres will they be taking the work from?
And what shifts are likely to be affected?

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 17 Jul 2019, 16:00

db wrote:
SpacePhoenix wrote:
db wrote:Does anyone know whats going into Warrington's super hub? Plenty of rumours going round!
If it's the new parcel hubs that you're refering to, it's ALL Tracked and any normal parcel that's larger than a shoebox.
Do you know Which mail centres will they be taking the work from?
And what shifts are likely to be affected?

It'll be ALL MCs that will loose that work

Post by db » 17 Jul 2019, 16:21

SpacePhoenix wrote:
db wrote:
SpacePhoenix wrote:
db wrote:Does anyone know whats going into Warrington's super hub? Plenty of rumours going round!
If it's the new parcel hubs that you're refering to, it's ALL Tracked and any normal parcel that's larger than a shoebox.
Do you know Which mail centres will they be taking the work from?
And what shifts are likely to be affected?
It'll be ALL MCs that will loose that work

Wow really, Am i right in hearing though that mail will be going back to those mail centres sorted so be then sent to the local do’s already in yorks?
So its only planning on doing tracked mail currently?

Woody Guthrie · Post by **Woody Guthrie** » 17 Jul 2019, 16:32

Am i right in hearing though that mail will be going back to those mail centres sorted so be then sent to the local do’s already in yorks?

You could only imagine that as being efficient for the LAT hubs furthest away from the super hubs, for instance sending Double deckers up to Edinburgh or Glasgow for distribution to all the LAT offices in Scotland. You can't really see much point for the majority though just to unload it at the MC then load it into another truck.

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