How big is your walk (amount of packets)

dohnut · Post by **dohnut** » 10 Jun 2020, 18:56

I'm curious how walks differ on the amount of packets, obviously town center and rurals will be less but general paired walks how many packets are you getting at the moment, myself pretty much every day have 2 full York's of big packets and at least 2 mini York's of packets, my walk is one of the worst regarding packets as it's quite a affluent area, and it is was busy before the s**t hit the fan.

Your late today · Post by **Your late today** » 10 Jun 2020, 19:08

I’m on a rural only walk and my van is full one person today had 10 packets

Post by **eastie** » 10 Jun 2020, 19:34

About 50 large

Post by **Munchboii** » 10 Jun 2020, 19:43

In the middle of April we were at our busiest, I'm on a urban rural 400 calls.

2 yorks of tracked/untracked parcels, 1 york of parcelforce and 1 york of special deliveries (30 SD from Amazon)

Also shifting 3 full packet bags of small packets and 2 trays of sequenced mail + about 1.5 trays of flats

Now I'm only doing about 3 yorks of parcels and 2 packet bags as it has gone down abit but still about 50% up since lockdown started

yubin282 · Post by **yubin282** » 10 Jun 2020, 20:57

dohnut wrote:I'm curious how walks differ on the amount of packets, obviously town center and rurals will be less but general paired walks how many packets are you getting at the moment, myself pretty much every day have 2 full York's of big packets and at least 2 mini York's of packets, my walk is one of the worst regarding packets as it's quite a affluent area, and it is was busy before the s**t hit the fan.

'back in the day' it seemed the more affluent areas would have fewer delivery points but generally have much more mail and packets and the less affluent not such much mail and packets but more delivery points to kind of balance it out, but now i don't think it really matters there all pretty much the same for packets (in my opinion).

God help you if you have PO local collect on your delivery, 27 is the record in one day.

Seymour Buts · Post by **Seymour Buts** » 10 Jun 2020, 20:57

Munchboii wrote:In the middle of April we were at our busiest, I'm on a urban rural 400 calls.

2 yorks of tracked/untracked parcels, 1 york of parcelforce and 1 york of special deliveries (30 SD from Amazon)

Also shifting 3 full packet bags of small packets and 2 trays of sequenced mail + about 1.5 trays of flats

Now I'm only doing about 3 yorks of parcels and 2 packet bags as it has gone down abit but still about 50% up since lockdown started

Sounds like Amazon don't deliver where you are if you're getting that many specials. What a ball ache.

Post by **Munchboii** » 11 Jun 2020, 08:06

Seymour Buts wrote:
Munchboii wrote:In the middle of April we were at our busiest, I'm on a urban rural 400 calls.

2 yorks of tracked/untracked parcels, 1 york of parcelforce and 1 york of special deliveries (30 SD from Amazon)

Also shifting 3 full packet bags of small packets and 2 trays of sequenced mail + about 1.5 trays of flats

Now I'm only doing about 3 yorks of parcels and 2 packet bags as it has gone down abit but still about 50% up since lockdown started
Sounds like Amazon don't deliver where you are if you're getting that many specials. What a ball ache.

Yes you're exactly right, there is no Amazon here. The amazon has always been shared between Hermes and Royal Mail. It used to be the case that Hermes got the majority of it but in the last 3 months its shifted massively towards Royal Mail getting the majority because Hermes were failing the next day delivery target due to some logistical factor. So now the Amazon algorithm goes mad and shifts it all to us through SD.

No idea if amazon is paying SD prices for them though...