Parcelforce job Application online assessment ANSWERS PLEASE

Post by **abu-taz** » 25 Oct 2013, 12:26

Background Information on Parcelforce Worldwide Products

Royal Mail Group offers a number of products to customers. These include:

Before 9am: Guaranteed to be delivered to customers' addresses before 9am. Before 10am: Guaranteed to be delivered to customers' addresses before 10am.
Before 12 noon: Guaranteed to be delivered to customers' addresses before 12 noon.
48 hour parcels: Take 2 days to reach a customer but have no set delivery time.

The Exercise - Planning your delivery route.
A number of parcels are stacked inside a wheeled cage next to your van. Your manager confirms that these are your deliveries for the day and that you will be delivering parcels in two postcode areas; TY7 and TY8.

The parcel depot is in Broadfield, on a small industrial estate, which is in the TY7 postcode are. You will also deliver to the village of Cainton in the TY8 area and this area is slightly further away. You will be making a numbers of drops along the way and some of these drops may involve delivering more than one parcel to the same address.

In planning your route you should consider multi-drop opportunties and other time saving options for delivery, ensuring each customer received their parcel at the correct time.

The delivery manifest is below.

1. Before 12 noon, Jacksons Pet Shop, Lime Street, Cainton, TY8 5JU.
2. Before 9am, Unit 15, Redfield Industrial Estate, Broadfield, TY7 8UL.
3. International, Greens Solicitors, 111 London Road, Cainton, TY8 1HG.
4. Before 9am, 78 Green Street, Broadfield, TY7 9KB.
5. 48 hour, Unit 15, Redfield Industrial Estate, Broadfield, TY7 8UL.
6. Before 10am, KLP Products, Redfield Industrial Estate, Broadfield, TY7 8OS.
7. Before 9am, Thomson Ltd, Redfield Industrial Estate, Broadfield, TY7 8OP.
8. Before 12 noon, 20 Main Road, Broadfield, TY7 8TG.
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Post by **eric the viking** » 25 Oct 2013, 17:17

To be honest leave by 7.30 you could do the whole lot by 9.00.

Post by **abu-taz** » 25 Oct 2013, 20:46

Is number 2 and number 5 one drop?

Post by **Rosali** » 14 Jan 2016, 12:07

Cannae find it on Google map. Is it fictional?

Post by **russellheaton1** » 03 Mar 2016, 14:17

The amount of drops are lol

wannabeek · Post by **wannabeek** » 04 Mar 2016, 22:00

Start with the Redfield Industrial Estate, presumably it's the place referred to as where your depot is. 2 & 5 are the same address. I'd do 2,5,6,7,4,8,1,3. That gets the early local calls done first and only leaves the 12:00 and the international for the distant village.

By the way, this is an absurdly fictional scenario. No driver has ever had only 8 calls in a day, with half of them being in the place where your depot is!

*edit: just noticed how old this thread is! My answer may be a bit late now.

Post by **simon.buckingham** » 16 Jan 2019, 15:32

I suspect that I may be being a bit slow but I am unable to find any delivery manifest. Please advise?

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