Parcel Hubs - Inverness area

ssdd · Post by **ssdd** » 07 Mar 2020, 19:52

grchpo wrote:I'm on a rural route, my manager says that it won't affect me, town routes only

There was talk on another thread about segregating oversize/LAT for rural duties. You heard about that?

grchpo · Post by **grchpo** » 07 Mar 2020, 20:14

Don't know about LAT, don't do them. I been told I will keep getting large parcels. Don't know how they will sort it, will wait & see

ssdd · Post by **ssdd** » 07 Mar 2020, 20:21

grchpo wrote:Don't know about LAT, don't do them. I been told I will keep getting large parcels. Don't know how they will sort it, will wait & see

I think there may be the potential, under RMs plans, that rural duties would deliver the LAT product along with the mail. If that was the case then, potentially, this could affect your start/finish times, probably starting and finishing later.
I don't know if this is just talk at the moment, but something to bear in mind. Also, I wouldn't trust what management tell you. They may be misinformed themselves.

grchpo · Post by **grchpo** » 07 Mar 2020, 20:45

We are a LAT office, we have people doing them now so I assume they will carry on

ssdd · Post by **ssdd** » 07 Mar 2020, 21:29

grchpo wrote:We are a LAT office, we have people doing them now so I assume they will carry on

You're not getting what I'm saying are you? I think the idea is that the rural duties would take the LATs to save the drivers having to go out to remote parts after they've already had a delivery.

grchpo · Post by **grchpo** » 07 Mar 2020, 22:25

I know what you are saying but firstly what about special delivery if i start later & secondly i would not have the time to add on LAT deliveries

ssdd · Post by **ssdd** » 07 Mar 2020, 22:58

grchpo wrote:I know what you are saying but firstly what about special delivery if i start later & secondly i would not have the time to add on LAT deliveries

I've thought now, in the last few years, that the 1pm special isn't cost effective. Too many posties having to cut off, incurring extra time. Whether RM are thinking of changing that I dont know.
As it stands, and if these plans we're discussing DO come to fruition, then it would probably be expected you would clear the specials before any other deliveries.
Regarding the extra time, management would just be looking at these as though they are part of your normal oversize.
It's all hearsay at the moment, but with the way things are going it wouldn't or shouldn't come as a surprise if this does happen...

(I'm reading what I've wrote and realise that it sounds like something a manager would/could say. And I suppose that's the point. Cos it's something that they would/could bring in).

clashcityrocker · Post by **clashcityrocker** » 08 Mar 2020, 07:59

There are certain postcode areas where the 1pm Special Delivery guarantee doesn't apply.
My guess is there will be certain postcode areas where the LAT product won't apply.

ssdd · Post by **ssdd** » 08 Mar 2020, 12:44

clashcityrocker wrote:There are certain postcode areas where the 1pm Special Delivery guarantee doesn't apply.
My guess is there will be certain postcode areas where the LAT product won't apply.

Well, that's the other option, but a bit unfair to those who live in remote parts. In other words if you live in a rural area you're gonna have to wait longer for that LAT parcel.

kookoo32 · Post by **kookoo32** » 08 Mar 2020, 14:57

clashcityrocker wrote:There are certain postcode areas where the 1pm Special Delivery guarantee doesn't apply.
My guess is there will be certain postcode areas where the LAT product won't apply.

My office is about the only one in the area without an exemption, management are in the process of trying to get us one. We are in the IV postcode area.