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Ahead of this year’s peak Christmas period, Royal Mail is installing 10 new large-parcel conveyors at its mail centers to speed up sorting and improve tracking.
According to Royal Mail, the average parcel size it handles has grown by over 25% and the number of parcels bigger than a shoebox has doubled since 2017, so the new conveyors will help it cope with these larger parcels.
Royal Mail’s in-house engineering team initially designed and built a new large-parcel conveyor for the Midlands Parcel Hub, using belts instead of the typical rollers. The same design is now being rolled out across its mail centers.
The original large-parcel conveyors are live at Royal Mail’s Gatwick and South Midlands mail centers, and installations are now taking place at Jubilee and Tyneside. Ahead of Christmas, conveyors will be deployed at Medway, Birmingham, Leeds, Home Counties North and Belfast. Chelmsford, Greenford and Bristol will have theirs installed by February next year.
Neil Chaplain, Royal Mail’s engineering and process design director, said, “We are seeing an increasing number of larger parcels being sent through our network as online shopping habits continue to evolve. The addition of our in-house-designed large-parcel conveyors to some of our busiest mail centers will help us automate the handling of them as much as possible and increase efficiency, especially as we head into the peak Christmas shopping period.”
Royal Mail is also installing an additional three parcel sortation machines at its mail centers, adding to the 36 currently in operation.
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Royal Mail to handle peak demand with 10 new parcel conveyors
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Royal Mail to handle peak demand with 10 new parcel conveyors
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Re: Royal Mail to handle peak demand with 10 new parcel conveyors
None of this will be of any use if they don't invest in the final mile...i.e. the delivery staff and the vans!
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Re: Royal Mail to handle peak demand with 10 new parcel conveyors
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We’re installing 10 new large parcel conveyors at our mail centres to improve efficiency and meet growing demand for parcel deliveries ahead of Peak.
The conveyors, which will speed up parcel sorting and improve tracking, will be deployed at mail centres where large parcels are currently mostly sorted by hand. The new technology will help to meet increasing demand for parcels, especially of a larger size.
Since 2017, the average size of a parcel we handle has increased by more than 25%, and the number of large parcels (bigger than a shoebox) handled has more than doubled.
Our in-house engineering team initially designed and built a new large parcel conveyor for Midlands Super Hub, using belts instead of the typical rollers. The same design is now being rolled out across our mail centres.
We have had two in the business since 2022 – at Gatwick and South Midlands mail centres. Installation is now taking place at Jubilee and Tyneside – which are expected to be live by the end of October.
Ahead of Christmas, conveyors will be deployed at Medway, Birmingham, Leeds, Home Counties North and Belfast mail centres.
Chelmsford, Greenford and Bristol will have theirs installed by February next year.
Neil Chaplain, Engineering and Process Design Director, said: ‘We’re seeing an increasing number of larger sized parcels being sent through our network as online shopping habits continue to evolve.
‘The addition of our in-house designed large parcel conveyers to some of our busiest mail centres will help us automate the handling of them as much as possible and increase efficiency, especially as we head into the peak Christmas shopping period.’
In addition, a new parcel sorting machine (PSM) at Leeds Mail Centre recently went live, with Plymouth and Exeter’s PSMs on the way shortly, adding to the 36 currently in operation.
We’re installing 10 new large parcel conveyors at our mail centres to improve efficiency and meet growing demand for parcel deliveries ahead of Peak.
The conveyors, which will speed up parcel sorting and improve tracking, will be deployed at mail centres where large parcels are currently mostly sorted by hand. The new technology will help to meet increasing demand for parcels, especially of a larger size.
Since 2017, the average size of a parcel we handle has increased by more than 25%, and the number of large parcels (bigger than a shoebox) handled has more than doubled.
Our in-house engineering team initially designed and built a new large parcel conveyor for Midlands Super Hub, using belts instead of the typical rollers. The same design is now being rolled out across our mail centres.
We have had two in the business since 2022 – at Gatwick and South Midlands mail centres. Installation is now taking place at Jubilee and Tyneside – which are expected to be live by the end of October.
Ahead of Christmas, conveyors will be deployed at Medway, Birmingham, Leeds, Home Counties North and Belfast mail centres.
Chelmsford, Greenford and Bristol will have theirs installed by February next year.
Neil Chaplain, Engineering and Process Design Director, said: ‘We’re seeing an increasing number of larger sized parcels being sent through our network as online shopping habits continue to evolve.
‘The addition of our in-house designed large parcel conveyers to some of our busiest mail centres will help us automate the handling of them as much as possible and increase efficiency, especially as we head into the peak Christmas shopping period.’
In addition, a new parcel sorting machine (PSM) at Leeds Mail Centre recently went live, with Plymouth and Exeter’s PSMs on the way shortly, adding to the 36 currently in operation.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
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Re: Royal Mail to handle peak demand with 10 new parcel conveyors
The image that comes to mind is a wall built across the motorway but the on-ramps have been upgraded to keep feeding more and more cars onto it. A gigantic fireball of a service.
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Re: Royal Mail to handle peak demand with 10 new parcel conveyors
Applause Absolute joke. Do these people at the top actually suffer from some special sort of retardation. It’s just unbelievable that they continue to invest in infrastructure because of the increase in parcels & yet make cuts at the delivery end of the system. Delivery to be totally overwhelmed again in the coming weeks and the whole system will again grind to a halt. Meanwhile the retards will be spilling out the usual rubbish to the media with “we’ve taken on 19,000 extra staff this Christmas to cope with demand” and then fail to say that they’re all employed in mail centres having a jolly up while delivery is smashed to pieces.
God I hate these utter CNUTS with a passion!!!