Parcel weight limits

blizzard1011 · Post by **blizzard1011** » 13 Mar 2018, 19:32

Hi Does any one know what the weight limit is for a single parcel a postman/woman is expected to lift i know a mail sack is 11kg but i cant find any thing about parcels.cheers

Post by **yorkmover123** » 13 Mar 2018, 20:01

Mail bags is 11 kg, York & Mini-York containers is 250 kg Trays is 10 kg RSCs is 750 kg Delivery pouch – Max 16kg, reducing to 11kg after first pouch. 8kg on hills and for shared van deliveries, 5kg on steep hills or stairs. Parcels in Royal Mail Letters is 20 Kg max size 61cm x 46cm x 46cm (or 0.129 cubic metres in total where the length does not exceed 120cm) Parcelforce parcels is 30 kg (max length of 1.5m, length and girth combined 3m), exceptionally, by arrangement parcels may exceed these weights and sizes.

number one · Post by **number one** » 13 Mar 2018, 20:03

20kgs

blizzard1011 · Post by **blizzard1011** » 13 Mar 2018, 20:53

Thanks i thought over 20kg seemed excessive for one person where can i get it in writing that its 20kg the manager is telling me its 22kg and if i dont take it its wilful delay because i dared to ask what the weight limit was.

number one · Post by **number one** » 13 Mar 2018, 21:10

blizzard1011 wrote:Thanks i thought over 20kg seemed excessive for one person where can i get it in writing that its 20kg the manager is telling me its 22kg and if i dont take it its wilful delay because i dared to ask what the weight limit was.

Don’t need it in writing. Just tell him it’s too heavy for you. Simple. Let him threaten you with willfull delay. Once you have told him you are not taking it if he doesn’t come up with a way to deliver it then it is him that has willful delayed it. Empty words on his behalf means nothing, he will know that.

the mad woman · Post by **the mad woman** » 13 Mar 2018, 21:30

over a certain weight 2 people are supposed to go out with it

Ozzvaldo · Post by **Ozzvaldo** » 13 Mar 2018, 21:37

yorkmover123 wrote:Mail bags is 11 kg, York & Mini-York containers is 250 kg Trays is 10 kg RSCs is 750 kg Delivery pouch – Max 16kg, reducing to 11kg after first pouch. 8kg on hills and for shared van deliveries, 5kg on steep hills or stairs. Parcels in Royal Mail Letters is 20 Kg max size 61cm x 46cm x 46cm (or 0.129 cubic metres in total where the length does not exceed 120cm) Parcelforce parcels is 30 kg (max length of 1.5m, length and girth combined 3m), exceptionally, by arrangement parcels may exceed these weights and sizes.

My office has gradually been receiving more and more parcels that exceed the size and weight dimensions mentioned above, and certainly not on an isolated incidence basis. In terms of measurement, some are MUCH, MUCH bigger than those stated sizes (one duty gets a parcel for a nursing home once a fortnight that virtually fills the volume of a Yorkie on its own), and many of our shared van duties are struggling badly to accomodate these parcels in Vauxhall Combo vans.

Our theory is that because our town is fairly isolated and well away from the motorway network, RM are simply trying to save money by dumping as much as they can on us and bugger the consequences. A question often heard in my office is, "Anybody spotted a Parcelforce lorry lately?"

ewancurze · Post by **ewancurze** » 14 Mar 2018, 09:34

We are a large town office and we are getting a lot more oversize parcels, today I saw one at 19.5Kgs and another at 26Kgs.

Post by **yorkmover123** » 14 Mar 2018, 14:29

Dont lift or handle more than can be easily managed. There is a difference between what people can lift and what they can safely lift, seek advice or ask for help .

Post by **Navalron** » 14 Mar 2018, 18:45

Yous are going to get more and more bigger parcels as they try and get RM to do parcel force work. They hate the fact that two vans from the one group goes down a road when one will do. Probably in about 3/5 years to e it will go back to Royal Mail parcels. They will issue Postie's with the smaller transit which is bigger than the carvan bits of crap that are used just now. Also all vehicle operations for class one will go out to tender. Hell its mostly going that way just now. Why the f**k the union allowed them to split us up from postman driver or postie to mgv driver, postie, network, blah blah blah. Divide and conqueror. Or should it be divided and conquered.

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 14 Mar 2018, 19:23

Navalron wrote:Also all vehicle operations for class one will go out to tender.

I wouldn't be surprised to see class 2 as well go out to tender

answer=42 · Post by **answer=42** » 15 Mar 2018, 20:38

20kg is the limit. Above that, leave the package in the office and P739 the addressee. They can come and collect it themselves. Tracked packages above 20kg should never get as far as the delivery office, they should be picked up earlier in the pipeline and either returned to sender or have the sender surcharged depending on when they are detected. The system is failing us because more overweight/oversize items are making it to our delivery offices. We need to make a stand and refuse to take them.

The answer to the original question is 20kg, the manager is wrong. Simple. Don't take it.

Postie45 · Post by **Postie45** » 15 Mar 2018, 20:42

its like back in the day, we could have bags up to 16kg, but people saw that as a target, if you "only" has 12kg they thought you should have more, but its what YOU feel comfortable carrying, not what the limit is. If you tell the manager a package is too heavy for you to lift, and he says its less than the limit so you have to carry it then you injure yourself then HE is liable, arguing the 20kg limit wont save him.

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 16 Mar 2018, 08:16

answer=42 wrote:20kg is the limit. Above that, leave the package in the office and P739 the addressee. They can come and collect it themselves. Tracked packages above 20kg should never get as far as the delivery office, they should be picked up earlier in the pipeline and either returned to sender or have the sender surcharged depending on when they are detected. The system is failing us because more overweight/oversize items are making it to our delivery offices. We need to make a stand and refuse to take them.

The answer to the original question is 20kg, the manager is wrong. Simple. Don't take it.

afaik once they've been collected they have to go through the pipeline