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Parcel volume yesterday and today

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Smoothbackground
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Parcel volume yesterday and today

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Crazy busy…
fallenworld202233
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mail completely dead this week
2chorizon
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Re: Parcel volume yesterday and today

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Smoothbackground wrote:
30 Nov 2024, 19:40
Crazy busy…
Well it was Black Friday.
kazardaimenu
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It’s gonna be like this for about 3 weeks. Enjoy!
SpacePhoenix
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Already york shortages in the system, Amazon stuff arriving on pallets
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2chorizon wrote:
30 Nov 2024, 20:14
Smoothbackground wrote:
30 Nov 2024, 19:40
Crazy busy…
Well it was Black Friday.
Surely won,t kick into next week
Sean06
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SpacePhoenix wrote:
30 Nov 2024, 21:18
Already york shortages in the system, Amazon stuff arriving on pallets
Have been last few weeks.also all damaged mail arriving into nrc with perfect address from msh any idea why.been told nrc just sending them on for auction.
Mr Rush
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We were chugging along relatively fine until Wednesday when oversized and Tracked exploded. We've had agency and reserves doing packet runs since the start of the month and now that capacity has been greatly exceeded. I've seen non-Ops staff on delivery again.
The machine stops.
Smoothbackground
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Re: Parcel volume yesterday and today

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Mr Rush wrote:
30 Nov 2024, 23:11
We were chugging along relatively fine until Wednesday when oversized and Tracked exploded. We've had agency and reserves doing packet runs since the start of the month and now that capacity has been greatly exceeded. I've seen non-Ops staff on delivery again.
“Capacity greatly exceeded” sums it up neatly. And it’s not just the manpower to deal with it — Yorks, depot space, vehicles, pdas are all usurped.

We had non-ops staff in this week too, although apparently they won’t be back now until the penultimate week before Christmas (10 Dec?).
kazardaimenu
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SpacePhoenix wrote:
30 Nov 2024, 21:18
Already york shortages in the system, Amazon stuff arriving on pallets
Mostly bulky stuff for out of the way addresses?
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Re: Parcel volume yesterday and today

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Mr Rush wrote:
30 Nov 2024, 23:11
We were chugging along relatively fine until Wednesday when oversized and Tracked exploded. We've had agency and reserves doing packet runs since the start of the month and now that capacity has been greatly exceeded. I've seen non-Ops staff on delivery again.
Same here. It was manageable Monday and Tuesday but when Wednesday came the managers had no clue how to deal with it other than to howl at us to take more. Didn’t happen and then Thursday agency showed up and things ran a bit more smoothly.
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It's fine as we just prioritise parcels as normal....mail comes back. Just make sure you get the Tracked done is what we are told.
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Mr Rush wrote:
30 Nov 2024, 23:11
now that capacity has been greatly exceeded. I've seen non-Ops staff on delivery again.
Xmas has arrived unexpectedly for Royal Mail.once again.....
Ringer21
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Had a shocking week busy on everything including 7 lots of leaflets 😡 left in loads everyday
TopperGas
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Re: Parcel volume yesterday and today

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Sean06 wrote:
30 Nov 2024, 22:24
2chorizon wrote:
30 Nov 2024, 20:14
Smoothbackground wrote:
30 Nov 2024, 19:40
Crazy busy…
Well it was Black Friday.
Surely won,t kick into next week
Most big retailers now have Black Friday weeks, I assume to spread the demand out over a week, it just seems the smaller retailers doing Black Friday weekend deals.