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We are a parcel business eh moya?

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hubbahubba
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We are a parcel business eh moya?

Post by hubbahubba »

Or so she tells us in the courier and wtll,yet after the latest price restructuring it is cheaper to send anything over 2KG via Parcelforce48 when compared to our own 2c service!

I think the large parcels are down around 50% in the MC,although its early days yet.
Still seems a strange thing to do,although im sure they have a good reason for it......

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db
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Re: We are a parcel business eh moya?

Post by db »

hubbahubba wrote:Or so she tells us in the courier and wtll,yet after the latest price restructuring it is cheaper to send anything over 2KG via Parcelforce48 when compared to our own 2c service!

I think the large parcels are down around 50% in the MC,although its early days yet.
Still seems a strange thing to do,although im sure they have a good reason for it......

:cuppa
Large parcels should be down 100% as we don't do large parcels anymore
hubbahubba
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Re: We are a parcel business eh moya?

Post by hubbahubba »

would you say 2ft x 1 and a half x 1 and a half was small then? :crazy:
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db
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Re: We are a parcel business eh moya?

Post by db »

hubbahubba wrote:would you say 2ft x 1 and a half x 1 and a half was small then? :crazy:
Sorry, didnt mean it to come out like that!

Still waiting for the guy who said parcel force was gone be busier to come back to his post he put up a few days ago
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Re: We are a parcel business eh moya?

Post by spen »

we had a s**t load of parcelforce 24 and 48 hr parcels come into our do today for us to deliver for some reason
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Re: We are a parcel business eh moya?

Post by luddite »

We will deliver ALL Parcelforce work soon, Parcelforce will cease to exist or so we have been told!
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Re: We are a parcel business eh moya?

Post by DGP1 »

luddite wrote:We will deliver ALL Parcelforce work soon, Parcelforce will cease to exist or so we have been told!
Not true, RM will send as much work onto PF to build them up to sell them off for a bigger profit and then try to grab the workload back...........I can really see that working :nervous :chuckle :chuckle :chuckle
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Re: We are a parcel business eh moya?

Post by SpacePhoenix »

DGP1 wrote:
luddite wrote:We will deliver ALL Parcelforce work soon, Parcelforce will cease to exist or so we have been told!
Not true, RM will send as much work onto PF to build them up to sell them off for a bigger profit and then try to grab the workload back...........I can really see that working :nervous :chuckle :chuckle :chuckle
I think if anything both RM & PF will loose work to other couriers
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Re: We are a parcel business eh moya?

Post by SF »

A parcels business yet our managers prioritise letters over packets. If we have to cut off the sorting, we're told to leave the packets and get the letters through.. :crazy:
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Re: We are a parcel business eh moya?

Post by Martin Walsh »

Royal Mail deliver more parcels in a week then Parcel force deliver in a year. What has happened is Royal Mail have priced the larger parcels to such a price that it makes no sense to use Royal Mail. Mail Centres and RDCs will lose this traffic and so will firms and parcel deliveries.
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Re: We are a parcel business eh moya?

Post by fishtank »

spen wrote:we had a s**t load of parcelforce 24 and 48 hr parcels come into our do today for us to deliver for some reason
They are not Parcelforce 24hr and 48hr.
They are ours,part of the new parcel strategy.

http://www.royalmail.com/parcel-despatc ... -24-and-48" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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db
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Re: We are a parcel business eh moya?

Post by db »

Parcels small and medium seam to be down in my mail centre tonight! Very quiet! I feel we might have priced ourselves out!
spen
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Re: We are a parcel business eh moya?

Post by spen »

fishtank wrote:
spen wrote:we had a s**t load of parcelforce 24 and 48 hr parcels come into our do today for us to deliver for some reason
They are not Parcelforce 24hr and 48hr.
They are ours,part of the new parcel strategy.

http://www.royalmail.com/parcel-despatc ... -24-and-48" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
ok thankx,, was my union rep who told me it was parcelforce work
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Re: We are a parcel business eh moya?

Post by luddite »

Can't speak for the cities but PF do not deliver in rural areas now, they drop off a huge truck load of parcels of all sizes, shapes, weights and time sensitivity :wink: and poor old postie wedges them into a.clapped out old Combo because he has time 'cos mail volumes have dropped so much! :crazy:
This will be rolled out everywhere we are told to fill our spare time. :hmmmm
We are a parcel business now, yes?
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Re: We are a parcel business eh moya?

Post by UnhappyGremlin »

I take it you all have received that courier special about RM parcel strategy? Definitely a parcel company. It says so. And we have been told umpteen times recently we are. Anyone else impressed that RM actually has a parcel strategy? Although, it does appear to be to lose as much work as possible as fast as they can. :crazy:
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