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How is your DO/MC looking?
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postman1979
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Re: How is your DO/MC looking?
We unloaded two trailers this morning that arrived at the MC on Saturday morning and couldn't be unloaded as we had no room. The one that didn't get unloaded on Tuesday morning by the night staff was unloaded later in the day by the day staff.
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Rommagic
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Re: How is your DO/MC looking?
Waiting for a bday card and Xmas card was posted 2 me a week ago.The person only 3 miles away.
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thefox
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Re: How is your DO/MC looking?
You not warn the sender about the strikes 
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scoobymunster
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Re: How is your DO/MC looking?
Are you aware of the contents of a trailer or could there have been a few yorks of specials/ tracks lying in it for so long?postman1979 wrote: ↑07 Dec 2022, 17:03We unloaded two trailers this morning that arrived at the MC on Saturday morning and couldn't be unloaded as we had no room. The one that didn't get unloaded on Tuesday morning by the night staff was unloaded later in the day by the day staff.
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SpacePhoenix
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Re: How is your DO/MC looking?
We don't get notified of the contents of the yorks, just the number of yorks that are on the trailer. If we ended up with a similar situation, they'd have to park it in the street as our yard doesn't have the room to have an artic parked upscoobymunster wrote: ↑07 Dec 2022, 18:23Are you aware of the contents of a trailer or could there have been a few yorks of specials/ tracks lying in it for so long?postman1979 wrote: ↑07 Dec 2022, 17:03We unloaded two trailers this morning that arrived at the MC on Saturday morning and couldn't be unloaded as we had no room. The one that didn't get unloaded on Tuesday morning by the night staff was unloaded later in the day by the day staff.
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kookoo32
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Re: How is your DO/MC looking?
Delivered a Special Delivery posted on 3/12 today. Also delivered 1st class packets posted 5/12. I guess it depends on which MC they came through as to how quick they get there.
Anyway our office is still nowhere near clear. A bit better than yesterday but Thursday is usually a shocker, then Friday
Anyway our office is still nowhere near clear. A bit better than yesterday but Thursday is usually a shocker, then Friday
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Darwin
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Re: How is your DO/MC looking?
I posted what looked like a wedding invitation. It said RSVP 1st December.
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wandle
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Re: How is your DO/MC looking?
Were those 2 trailers parked in the yard the entire 4 days? If so, that’s 2 trailers that were unavailable for other Network runs. If this is repeated at even a few dozen other sites around the country, that’s going to also slow the efforts to clear the backlog, surely?postman1979 wrote: ↑07 Dec 2022, 17:03We unloaded two trailers this morning that arrived at the MC on Saturday morning and couldn't be unloaded as we had no room. The one that didn't get unloaded on Tuesday morning by the night staff was unloaded later in the day by the day staff.
PRDC is still rammed.
There were some pallets in today that bore the words ‘Property of HWDC’, which implies work is being diverted from the Heathrow hub.
One PRDC driver said he had to wait over an hour on Tuesday evening for a bay to become available at HWDC, to allow him to offload…
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SpacePhoenix
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Re: How is your DO/MC looking?
They must have been single stacker trailers, double stacker trailers AFAIK need power to be provided by the cab unit to be able to operate the internal liftwandle wrote: ↑07 Dec 2022, 23:56Were those 2 trailers parked in the yard the entire 4 days? If so, that’s 2 trailers that were unavailable for other Network runs. If this is repeated at even a few dozen other sites around the country, that’s going to also slow the efforts to clear the backlog, surely?postman1979 wrote: ↑07 Dec 2022, 17:03We unloaded two trailers this morning that arrived at the MC on Saturday morning and couldn't be unloaded as we had no room. The one that didn't get unloaded on Tuesday morning by the night staff was unloaded later in the day by the day staff.
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postman1979
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Re: How is your DO/MC looking?
Both were double deck trailers. We have power packs to lower the deck or use a shunter from the VOC.SpacePhoenix wrote: ↑08 Dec 2022, 07:11They must have been single stacker trailers, double stacker trailers AFAIK need power to be provided by the cab unit to be able to operate the internal liftwandle wrote: ↑07 Dec 2022, 23:56Were those 2 trailers parked in the yard the entire 4 days? If so, that’s 2 trailers that were unavailable for other Network runs. If this is repeated at even a few dozen other sites around the country, that’s going to also slow the efforts to clear the backlog, surely?postman1979 wrote: ↑07 Dec 2022, 17:03We unloaded two trailers this morning that arrived at the MC on Saturday morning and couldn't be unloaded as we had no room. The one that didn't get unloaded on Tuesday morning by the night staff was unloaded later in the day by the day staff.
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Rommagic
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Re: How is your DO/MC looking?
Loads of York's just think after Saturday how much there will be people won't clear Saturday.
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FirstPost
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Re: How is your DO/MC looking?
The most I counted was twenty boxes of sequenced next to one frame, other walks had between eight and fifteen just sitting there, not counting the mail from IPS 
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Walter sobchak
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SpacePhoenix
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Re: How is your DO/MC looking?
Most of the year we send out a box a walk on wave 1, maybe two boxes for the odd walk. During Xmas pressure it can sometimes be 3 boxes per walk, with the odd walk getting 4 boxes. The CSS machines tend to chuck out lots of rejects when there's lots of Xmas cards.
Most of the year we have the option of running some sequencing on the iLSMs (IMPs for MCs that have them) but this time of year they'll all be running outward sort plans. I can see us reverting to walk sort at some point or if it gets bad enough, just sending the batches out as they are, without them going through a machine to be walk sorted or walk sequenced.
Not had any backlog so far so there must be loads of mail for us stuck upstream somewhere
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FirstPost
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Re: How is your DO/MC looking?
Where is the backlog you speak of? You've been saying this for two weeksSpacePhoenix wrote: ↑11 Dec 2022, 21:20Most of the year we send out a box a walk on wave 1, maybe two boxes for the odd walk. During Xmas pressure it can sometimes be 3 boxes per walk, with the odd walk getting 4 boxes. The CSS machines tend to chuck out lots of rejects when there's lots of Xmas cards.
Most of the year we have the option of running some sequencing on the iLSMs (IMPs for MCs that have them) but this time of year they'll all be running outward sort plans. I can see us reverting to walk sort at some point or if it gets bad enough, just sending the batches out as they are, without them going through a machine to be walk sorted or walk sequenced.
Not had any backlog so far so there must be loads of mail for us stuck upstream somewhere