Parcel force packages

Post by **wacko74** » 05 Jun 2020, 06:57

I did hear that ParcelForce were being offered £22 per hour to deliver 6o pkts per hour, which seems achievable in an urban/suburban area.

I wonder if we'll be offered the same incentive for taking excess work off them?

Post by **Andyajb277** » 05 Jun 2020, 18:58

60 pkts a hour that's funny
A busy town centre route could not do that
Yes Saturday rates are at 22 per hour not sure if it's the same this week as I don't work sats or Sunday
We are all made to work a automated route planner now rex so we could have have 3 stops on a street but we can not deliver them at the same time rex gives you random delivery time even if you have number 10 on the street at 10 am you could be delivering number 12 at 3pm in the afternoon so this is slowing our deliver rate to maybe 8 to 10 per hour before cv19 on average 15 per hour
Anyway the depo can not get any more parcels inside night staff been doing 14 hour shifts most nights
Most drivers average about 100 to 120 stops per shift
Our van are being loaded in the mornings with 150 to 170 plus each day so time is wasted taking of delivery drops can not be caged as running out of cages floor space and safety of 2meter rules
So yes parcel force is really behind on service
Most courier firms are to be fair to much demand
We have to you rex auto because we can not go on the computer in the morning and plan our own route how you would do it better becasuse of cv19
So yes parcel force are in a bit of a mess

A2B · Post by **A2B** » 05 Jun 2020, 19:12

Andyajb277 wrote: So yes parcel force are in a bit of a mess

We know that feeling

I was talking to a Hermes driver the other day, he's doing double the drops from last year, says the money is great but he cannot keep doing it as he's basically burntout

Post by **Andyajb277** » 05 Jun 2020, 19:18

11 people gone of with stress at our depo this week not cv19

Post by **Munchboii** » 05 Jun 2020, 19:38

My office has been doing parcelforce for years, we have never had parcelforce Van's here.

Our Van's are full to the roof everyday, prepare yourselves

A2B · Post by **A2B** » 05 Jun 2020, 20:01

Munchboii wrote:My office has been doing parcelforce for years, we have never had parcelforce Van's here.

Our Van's are full to the roof everyday, prepare yourselves

It's already the case

roof boxes and trailers are next

Post by **afcdibby** » 05 Jun 2020, 20:14

Janet Brum wrote:That`s true, I`ve seen the local PF driver many times with about 10 parcels in his van, not even big, I had much bigger/heavier parcels in mine.

And he always loads 1-2 of them on a trolley...

Maybe they should merge into RM ...

Every Parcelforce route has a BSI. This is a minimum requirement figure, I very much doubt a route has only 10 stops on it. Even the most rural routes in our office have over 30 stops on an 8 hour duty.

Post by **afcdibby** » 05 Jun 2020, 20:18

wacko74 wrote:I did hear that ParcelForce were being offered £22 per hour to deliver 6o pkts per hour, which seems achievable in an urban/suburban area.

I wonder if we'll be offered the same incentive for taking excess work off them?

Really???? How could any Parcelforce driver work at 1 delivery per minute? Achieving 20 deliveries per hour is good going in any housing estate.

Post by **Munchboii** » 05 Jun 2020, 21:13

60 packets per hour sounds physically impossible unless

1. You know the area off by heart and you stack your van perfectly by number order

2. You just dump parcels on a doorstep and run

All it takes is 1 customer to not be in for you to have to check the system for a safe place and find a shed ect. Then write a card to let them know it's in their shed. Also look at the fact there might be nowhere safe to leave it so you have to take it back to the sorting office and note leave it. That takes 2 minutes at least

Seymour Buts · Post by **Seymour Buts** » 05 Jun 2020, 22:44

wacko74 wrote:I did hear that ParcelForce were being offered £22 per hour to deliver 6o pkts per hour, which seems achievable in an urban/suburban area.

I wonder if we'll be offered the same incentive for taking excess work off them?

60 packets an hour? So one per minute? 20 is achievable; 30 if you know the area, there's no traffic and you happen to catch the vast maority in.

Post by **wacko74** » 06 Jun 2020, 06:59

afcdibby wrote:
wacko74 wrote:I did hear that ParcelForce were being offered £22 per hour to deliver 6o pkts per hour, which seems achievable in an urban/suburban area.

I wonder if we'll be offered the same incentive for taking excess work off them?
Really???? How could any Parcelforce driver work at 1 delivery per minute? Achieving 20 deliveries per hour is good going in any housing estate.

I average around 45-50 an hour in the suburban/semi-rural areas and villages that I cover

In an area you're familiar with and usually with multiple parcels for some addresses reducing the overall number of calls, then 60 per hour is perfectly achievable to anyone with a basic standard of competence and intelligence and the incentive of getting £22ph for doing it.

20 per hour on a housing estate would be an absolute piss take.

blacov · Post by **blacov** » 06 Jun 2020, 07:11

wacko74 wrote:
afcdibby wrote:
wacko74 wrote:I did hear that ParcelForce were being offered £22 per hour to deliver 6o pkts per hour, which seems achievable in an urban/suburban area.

I wonder if we'll be offered the same incentive for taking excess work off them?
Really???? How could any Parcelforce driver work at 1 delivery per minute? Achieving 20 deliveries per hour is good going in any housing estate.
I average around 45-50 an hour in the suburban/semi-rural areas and villages that I cover

In an area you're familiar with and usually with multiple parcels for some addresses reducing the overall number of calls, then 60 per hour is perfectly achievable to anyone with a basic standard of competence and intelligence and the incentive of getting £22ph for doing it.

20 per hour on a housing estate would be an absolute piss take.

I agree with the last statement provided packets can be left with a concierge or reception. If you have to tackle multiple floors and out of order lifts in a large buildings and have your packets spread all over the place it is not so much of a piss take anymore. Still 20 per hour doable

k979aaa · Post by **k979aaa** » 06 Jun 2020, 07:15

managers want xx packages per hour off each staff put the manager out to do it they will get half or less than the duty holder say one thing talk the talk and walk the walk but they only look at spread sheets.

Post by **Andyajb277** » 06 Jun 2020, 12:00

Out of 100 plus drivers at our depo owner drivers as well not many can do more then 30 stops per hour
Depends on area and volume
Our depo is in a small city compared to London or Birmingham so maybe tighter drops
Also 40 or 50 per hour single parcel drops you must be taking off all screfix rads boilers and all ball ache stuff

blacov · Post by **blacov** » 06 Jun 2020, 12:31

Andyajb277 wrote:Out of 100 plus drivers at our depo owner drivers as well not many can do more then 30 stops per hour
Depends on area and volume
Our depo is in a small city compared to London or Birmingham so maybe tighter drops
Also 40 or 50 per hour single parcel drops you must be taking off all screfix rads boilers and all ball ache stuff

Most of them posties have no idea what parcelforce is. I have been there and done it. Never again screwfix and RS crap.