' In Flight Redirections '

Wednesday · Post by **Wednesday** » 20 Apr 2020, 16:05

It was supposed to come in this Friday but has been put back until May 20 at the earliest.

smartecosse · Post by **smartecosse** » 20 Apr 2020, 17:41

Any idea how close the "neighbour" is meant to be for the alternative delivery?

The leaflet just says "impractical".....

I barely have time to try the immediate neighbours let alone half a street away

Parmyarmy25 · Post by **Parmyarmy25** » 20 Apr 2020, 18:07

smartecosse wrote:Any idea how close the "neighbour" is meant to be for the alternative delivery?

The leaflet just says "impractical".....

I barely have time to try the immediate neighbours let alone half a street away

Posties call if the neighbour isn't close then p739 is my guess

sorefeet17 · Post by **sorefeet17** » 20 Apr 2020, 19:08

Where would the p739 go if you go to the redirected address but still are unable to get any answer there?

mr hil. · Post by **mr hil.** » 20 Apr 2020, 20:41

sorefeet17 wrote:Where would the p739 go if you go to the redirected address but still are unable to get any answer there?

The P739 has to go to the original address, you would have been going back there anyway to deliver the "left with neighbour card" if you had successfully delivered the item anyway.

NewPostieUK · Post by **NewPostieUK** » 20 Apr 2020, 21:15

2yearpostie wrote:
NewPostieUK wrote:Let me get this straight. I sort my mail and packets for delivery. I load the van. Out on delivery I might get a message telling me to do something different to the already sorted packet? Take it someplace else?

Or am I off route? (meaning am I incorrect)
You scan the item as normal and a message will pop up to deliver to a different address IF IT IS ON ROUTE ONLY.

So I have to keep it until I arrive at the other location, or double back to somewhere I've already been. I can't see this happening.

ssdd · Post by **ssdd** » 22 Apr 2020, 19:42

You all should know that Rico has been trying to get back to the UK, but the 'in flight redirections' keep diverting his jet back home...

Seymour Buts · Post by **Seymour Buts** » 22 Apr 2020, 21:00

2yearpostie wrote:ive had training on this, but how does the customer change where its going to be delivered to?

An app. To be honest, this isn't a bad idea and may well lead to less parcels on delivery as they can request it be kept in the callers.

robbertwhitton · Post by **robbertwhitton** » 25 Apr 2020, 02:51

As ever Royal Mail making a big thing of this as they’ve invented this first,doing what others have been doing for a while no doubt,things that constantly fail on a daily basis can’t be sorted,rounds not going out etc,let’s get the basics done first shall we,then maybe move on and develop products etc,seems a lot of effort and open to failure to me?

Post by **97gaz** » 25 Apr 2020, 10:16

robbertwhitton wrote:As ever Royal Mail making a big thing of this as they’ve invented this first,doing what others have been doing for a while no doubt,things that constantly fail on a daily basis can’t be sorted,rounds not going out etc,let’s get the basics done first shall we,then maybe move on and develop products etc,seems a lot of effort and open to failure to me?

I was on the training course for this and it was clear to all us on the course that this was coming in because we were the only delivery company not doing this.

Wednesday · Post by **Wednesday** » 03 Jun 2020, 17:23

We were told this was starting today.but no one had one or seemed to know anything about it.Tried to log on PDA And got inflight failure message.Anyone know what’s going on?

Post by **fb1969** » 03 Jun 2020, 17:29

Ours started yesterday, another postie received Safeplace location details when they scanned the item on the doorstep - the Safeplace was 'enclosed front porch' and the house doesn't have one!!

We all got the failure message this morning so it sounds like the system has already crashed

xPandabear1992x · Post by **xPandabear1992x** » 03 Jun 2020, 18:39

Yeah, only just saw the update on Outdoor today. No training. Got to a door with a tracked which I had scanned walking down the drive. As soon as I got to the door it pinged and said "if not in put in _______ place.

Hadn't known this would be a thing to be honest. So while I stood there all confused the customer's door opened and the parcel was delivered!

Took me by surprise, did that.

blacov · Post by **blacov** » 05 Jun 2020, 05:59

I had already one in flight request. Scanned on the door step and got loud message to put it in a safe place (shed). No problem I was gonna do it anyway

twoloops · Post by **twoloops** » 05 Jun 2020, 15:35

Noticed this “In Flight” thing was on my PDA today?