Swindon parcel machine

[teesdale]

Heard the machine is now running at Swindon Mail Centre. Remember when people sorted into drop bags which required a bit of knowledge. Then people sorted into tall red sleeved yorks and less knowledge was needed. My question to anyone taking part in the trial is that does the machine do away with any geographical or memory skills that used to be required completely. For example does a monitor in front of you say sort into york 1, 2 or 3.

[Gold Fox]

Officially starts in August or later ...... Swindon staff do not know much about it so far.

[Lounge Lizard]

Heard the machine is now running at Swindon Mail Centre. Remember when people sorted into drop bags which required a bit of knowledge. Then people sorted into tall red sleeved yorks and less knowledge was needed. My question to anyone taking part in the trial is that does the machine do away with any geographical or memory skills that used to be required completely. For example does a monitor in front of you say sort into york 1, 2 or 3.

Any geographical or memory skills that used to be required aren't needed with machines that have been sorting mail by postcode for half a century and are far more advanced now.
It's just trudging from one house to the next one that machines can't do yet but a few more years and

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Heard the machine is now running at Swindon Mail Centre. Remember when people sorted into drop bags which required a bit of knowledge. Then people sorted into tall red sleeved yorks and less knowledge was needed. My question to anyone taking part in the trial is that does the machine do away with any geographical or memory skills that used to be required completely. For example does a monitor in front of you say sort into york 1, 2 or 3.

Any geographical or memory skills that used to be required aren't needed with machines that have been sorting mail by postcode for half a century and are far more advanced now.
It's just trudging from one house to the next one that machines can't do yet but a few more years and

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[jackthedog]

IS this machine actual y working now? does it work ? hiw good is it?

[Gold Fox]

Its the middle of August and this is the latest ....... machine will come in operation January 2017, if fail then it will be scrapped . Until then there will be staff and engineering training ... so far NO engineer or postal staff haven been trained.

[aiden01]

Its the middle of August and this is the latest ....... machine will come in operation January 2017, if fail then it will be scrapped . Until then there will be staff and engineering training ... so far NO engineer or postal staff haven been trained.

RM on the ball as usual then

[teesdale]

Amazing, whichever managers they use over the years, their culture means they always f**k it up. Making the project last as long as possible is always part of the plan and using people with no experience means guaranteed delays or a run ending in eventual failure. I wonder how much money Royal Mail has wasted on this sort of thing, eg. World class mail. Long may they keep the same managers, no parcel machine here will save at least 50 jobs.

[redheadedwoman]

We are sorting machineable and non-machineable outward for Swindon codes at Medway and have been for a few weeks.

[jmcg]

we are separating non machineable too at hcn.....still waiting for our own machine!

[jackthedog]

not really answering the question, we have seen some video footage of it working should be getting ours this year. On the assumption that it is now under test, how is it doing?