If we have to revert back to sorting more stuff manually then maybe, just maybe, our start times could be earlier rather than later. I can't see this happening because every time our hours change we always seem to start later.
Wouldn't make any difference to final dispatch times as 99% of the time the soring of packets, Tracked and often flats and manual letters goes to the wire
Regarding wave 2 mech its seems absolutely pointless to run it through the machine 3 times in order to get it sequenced if theres only half a trays worth of mail. And just imagine how many hours could be saved in processing if they didn't have to run the second wave. You will just have to spend more time polishing the belts with a toothbrush
We only sequence it because it's what the local DOs want. I've had many times on a Monday when I've run a wave 2 batch that there's been a single box or less for the entire batch! I think the lumpiest batch in terms of the number of walks on it is something like 19 or 20 walks. Given the chance management would probably have all of wave 2 as walk sort only or as manual.
Generally we don't TPM at the end of running wave 2, once dispatched we get moved around to other work areas to help out with the dispatch there
And please remember to take out the green, yellow and blue cards before you send the mech across
We always take them out. How many of the ones left in have been trimmed down? We often trim them down at the edges when the edges get frayed to get more life out of them. speaking of yellow cards, I've noticed recently that we're starting to get some thick wads of walk sort (the mail between the yellow and blue cards) recently for a few walks. Have DOs cut back on the number of times that they update their A+ ? If we notice that we get loads for a particular road/estate/block of flats we pass it on to our manager as a potential new build that's not been added to A+
Who should I listen to? A high up union bod who has been involved in negotiating the new deal and knows the inner workings that's going on or someone who has an agenda that always ends in a crap outcome for people on deliveries and nothing ever being able to change where he works?
Oh and you can happily send loads of mail down manual , we just have to spend more time sorting it and get out later so leave more mail in the office. A week of that and I'm sure something would change at the mail centre. It did when they started sending our 2nd wave non sequenced so everyone used it as an excuse to get out later and leave stuff at Christmas
It's a simple case of either it'll get sent as manual or the final dispatches will be at least a couple of hours later to allow the time required to sequence it, there's no sugar coating it. Frankly people have got their head in the sand over how the D+4 product is going to shake things up
Except of course if they change the way MC process items and try to make it more efficient.
I think you are being naive if you think that the way MCs process items won't change to some degree. It will because what you are saying is making it less efficient and therefore more expensive.
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The problem you have SP is that neither of your doomsday scenarios of unsequenced D+4 or significantly later dispatch times can be allowed to happen so perhaps you should look closer to home for the solution, I'm sure Royal Mail have.
Think really hard, how could you increase sequencing capacity and/or protect dispatch times?, Martin's already given you a clue.
Once you've discounted the impossible whatever you're left with no matter how improbable is how it's going to be and I'll be honest it's not that difficult to work out once you loosen the shackles of a rigid mailcentre workplan that for some reason you don't believe can be changed except by divine intervention.
The problem you have SP is that neither of your doomsday scenarios of unsequenced D+4 or significantly later dispatch times can be allowed to happen so perhaps you should look closer to home for the solution, I'm sure Royal Mail have.
Think really hard, how could you increase sequencing capacity and/or protect dispatch times?, Martin's already given you a clue.
Once you've discounted the impossible whatever you're left with no matter how improbable is how it's going to be and I'll be honest it's not that difficult to work out once you loosen the shackles of a rigid mailcentre workplan that for some reason you don't believe can be changed except by divine intervention.
I'm afraid you've still got your head in the sand. We physically don't have any more capacity for sequencing for wave 2 and I believe we're meant to be losing one of our iLSMs soon, so we'll then have even less capacity.
Until the inward sort plan is finished, you don't know which DPs have got mail (and that's only mech mail, what about manual letters, flats, normal packets and Tracked?). Only then can you run a sort plan to extract mail for the ones that do, and sort to a "holding selection" those that don't. By the time that is done, wave 2 will be done and the final dispatch is due. Therefore you've two options:
* it gets sequenced but the final dispatch gets pushed back to accommodate it
* It gets sent as manual
People need to come up with WORKABLE solutions rather than half-baked ideas that are more like wet dreams
