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Tsunami of cardboard coming your way

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wandle
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Tsunami of cardboard coming your way

Post by wandle »

PRDC had over 2,000 pallets of mostly large boxes on site, in every available orifice this morning.
When this backlog is eventually tackled (they’ve had a chronic shortage of empty Yorks) that volume will hit MC’s and DO’s over coming days (weeks?).
What’s the betting that managers in DOs with limited storage space will panic and instruct OPGs to take out the big stuff first, prioritising this stuff over and above letters, Christmas cards etc?
Simon Thompson might have to bring forward those recommended ‘last posting dates’ again…
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wandle wrote:
05 Dec 2022, 16:56
PRDC had over 2,000 pallets of mostly large boxes on site, in every available orifice this morning.
When this backlog is eventually tackled (they’ve had a chronic shortage of empty Yorks) that volume will hit MC’s and DO’s over coming days (weeks?).
What’s the betting that managers in DOs with limited storage space will panic and instruct OPGs to take out the big stuff first, prioritising this stuff over and above letters, Christmas cards etc?
Simon Thompson might have to bring forward those recommended ‘last posting dates’ again…
Post early for next Christmas :crazy:
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Corey wrote:
05 Dec 2022, 16:59
wandle wrote:
05 Dec 2022, 16:56
PRDC had over 2,000 pallets of mostly large boxes on site, in every available orifice this morning.
When this backlog is eventually tackled (they’ve had a chronic shortage of empty Yorks) that volume will hit MC’s and DO’s over coming days (weeks?).
What’s the betting that managers in DOs with limited storage space will panic and instruct OPGs to take out the big stuff first, prioritising this stuff over and above letters, Christmas cards etc?
Simon Thompson might have to bring forward those recommended ‘last posting dates’ again…
Post early for next Christmas :crazy: :left:
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Unless the people pulling Simons strings stop soon, Christmas is finished! It simply won't be recoverable this side of Christmas!
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Re: Tsunami of cardboard coming your way…

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Posting dates have been brought forward to yesterday!
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Monday 12 December : 2nd Class, 2nd Class Signed For and Royal Mail 48®
Friday 16 December : 1st Class, 1st Class Signed For, Royal Mail 24® and Royal Mail Tracked 48®
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.
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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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Were they all Amazon?This is about the time of year when a good chunk of the Amazon starts arriving on pallets
wandle
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SpacePhoenix wrote:
05 Dec 2022, 19:39
Were they all Amazon?This is about the time of year when a good chunk of the Amazon starts arriving on pallets
Nope. A right mixture of companies, many of whom are usually supplied with Yorks, but couldn’t get any from us. The amount of shrink-wrap used by companies posting these cobbled-together stacks of stuff would make our extinction rebellion activists throw their toys out of their prams if they could see it.
Some stuff marked as ‘Wednesday’ was still in the same area of the building as it was 5 days ago 😳
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I'm still wondering where all the work is from the last two days of IA?
wandle
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Gary55 wrote:
05 Dec 2022, 17:44
Posting dates have been brought forward to yesterday!
Sorry, I read that as meaning the last posting date was changed to yesterday, the 4th December :left:
What you meant was actually ‘Posting dates have been brought forward, too, announced yesterday’
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FirstPost wrote:
05 Dec 2022, 21:48
I'm still wondering where all the work is from the last two days of IA?
I've been wondering the same. Unless they increase the lorries then it ain't ever getting over to the DOs
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wandle wrote:
05 Dec 2022, 21:46
SpacePhoenix wrote:
05 Dec 2022, 19:39
Were they all Amazon?This is about the time of year when a good chunk of the Amazon starts arriving on pallets
Nope. A right mixture of companies, many of whom are usually supplied with Yorks, but couldn’t get any from us. The amount of shrink-wrap used by companies posting these cobbled-together stacks of stuff would make our extinction rebellion activists throw their toys out of their prams if they could see it.
Some stuff marked as ‘Wednesday’ was still in the same area of the building as it was 5 days ago 😳
But we are a parcel company.!
How on earth could it go so wrong?