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Scanning to route

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SpacePhoenix
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Re: Scanning to route

Post by SpacePhoenix »

Dexydog wrote:
22 Feb 2023, 12:09
yellowbelly wrote:
21 Feb 2023, 21:30
clashcityrocker wrote:
21 Feb 2023, 19:46

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Or just ask if you can scan them all with one gun. It won't make any difference.
This - if you're a van partnership your loops are not that far apart that it won't make any difference to the
delivery window timings that get sent to the customer.
This is all pie in the sky.
The "delivery window" needs to say 0930 when you get out, to 1400 or whenever you finish delivery. (Insert new rimes here).
Even if you scan in the order you normally do the loops, this usually needs to change anyway to slot in your 1pm specials.
It literally is undoable as things stand to give a 1 hour window.
So much has changed in last 3 years or so; if they want this they need to separate parcels from letters completely.
Oh hang on...
They could send a couple of vans out early to do the specials
Route1
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Re: Scanning to route

Post by Route1 »

postieblueshirt wrote:
21 Feb 2023, 19:47

you can still scan with your pda.After you have done yours save as a draft then exit and scan his dutys barcode scan his stuff save it to draft when he logs on with his pda scans his duty he will have the draft and he can send it to cloud then its on his not yours.
Ooooh....thats clever. I didnt even think of that. You'll never become a manager with ideas like that.
postieblueshirt
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Re: Scanning to route

Post by postieblueshirt »

Route1 wrote:
22 Feb 2023, 20:25
postieblueshirt wrote:
21 Feb 2023, 19:47

you can still scan with your pda.After you have done yours save as a draft then exit and scan his dutys barcode scan his stuff save it to draft when he logs on with his pda scans his duty he will have the draft and he can send it to cloud then its on his not yours.
Ooooh....thats clever. I didnt even think of that. You'll never become a manager with ideas like that.
Lol sounds mad but my park n loop partner has gone and been split between 3 dutys and that's what I've had to do.I think it works nobody's complained yet..
rambo1
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Re: Scanning to route

Post by rambo1 »

SpacePhoenix wrote:
22 Feb 2023, 19:31
Dexydog wrote:
22 Feb 2023, 12:09
yellowbelly wrote:
21 Feb 2023, 21:30
clashcityrocker wrote:
21 Feb 2023, 19:46

...................

Or just ask if you can scan them all with one gun. It won't make any difference.
This - if you're a van partnership your loops are not that far apart that it won't make any difference to the
delivery window timings that get sent to the customer.
This is all pie in the sky.
The "delivery window" needs to say 0930 when you get out, to 1400 or whenever you finish delivery. (Insert new rimes here).
Even if you scan in the order you normally do the loops, this usually needs to change anyway to slot in your 1pm specials.
It literally is undoable as things stand to give a 1 hour window.
So much has changed in last 3 years or so; if they want this they need to separate parcels from letters completely.
Oh hang on...
They could send a couple of vans out early to do the specials
again, very cost effective. Not.
claretandblue
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Re: Scanning to route

Post by claretandblue »

Doesn't look like we are going to be having any training on this, photocopies of the procedure we're on our frames when we got back today, we go live on Monday. :crazy:
Seymour Buts
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Re: Scanning to route

Post by Seymour Buts »

claretandblue wrote:
23 Feb 2023, 17:43
Doesn't look like we are going to be having any training on this, photocopies of the procedure we're on our frames when we got back today, we go live on Monday. :crazy:
It ain't difficult tbf. It's a pain, but not complicated. Literally click indoor, scan to core route then scan your tracked. Upload to cloud, then load your route as normal and you'll have the option of listing your delivery points.
claretandblue
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Re: Scanning to route

Post by claretandblue »

Seymour Buts wrote:
23 Feb 2023, 23:22
claretandblue wrote:
23 Feb 2023, 17:43
Doesn't look like we are going to be having any training on this, photocopies of the procedure we're on our frames when we got back today, we go live on Monday. :crazy:
It ain't difficult tbf. It's a pain, but not complicated. Literally click indoor, scan to core route then scan your tracked. Upload to cloud, then load your route as normal and you'll have the option of listing your delivery points.
Can you do them as you get them, or do they all have to be scanned together?
P13
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Re: Scanning to route

Post by P13 »

claretandblue wrote:
24 Feb 2023, 11:23
Seymour Buts wrote:
23 Feb 2023, 23:22
claretandblue wrote:
23 Feb 2023, 17:43
Doesn't look like we are going to be having any training on this, photocopies of the procedure we're on our frames when we got back today, we go live on Monday. :crazy:
It ain't difficult tbf. It's a pain, but not complicated. Literally click indoor, scan to core route then scan your tracked. Upload to cloud, then load your route as normal and you'll have the option of listing your delivery points.
Can you do them as you get them, or do they all have to be scanned together?
You can scan them as you get them, you just save to draft and upload to the cloud once you've tied up.
Seymour Buts
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Re: Scanning to route

Post by Seymour Buts »

claretandblue wrote:
24 Feb 2023, 11:23
Seymour Buts wrote:
23 Feb 2023, 23:22
claretandblue wrote:
23 Feb 2023, 17:43
Doesn't look like we are going to be having any training on this, photocopies of the procedure we're on our frames when we got back today, we go live on Monday. :crazy:
It ain't difficult tbf. It's a pain, but not complicated. Literally click indoor, scan to core route then scan your tracked. Upload to cloud, then load your route as normal and you'll have the option of listing your delivery points.
Can you do them as you get them, or do they all have to be scanned together?
Whatever you want to do. I scan them as I pick them up as I always empty the entire packet bag on the frame. Sometimes it takes a while for it to actually load, so while I'm waiting I'll chuck a couple of the untracked items onto the parcel shelf so I ain't wasting time waiting for it. Don't forget to do your lapsing, and oversized before submitting though. Once you've submitted you can't go back into it.
rambo1
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Re: Scanning to route

Post by rambo1 »

Anyone ever said what sort of time slot the customer receives?
TopperGas
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Re: Scanning to route

Post by TopperGas »

P13 wrote:
24 Feb 2023, 11:57
claretandblue wrote:
24 Feb 2023, 11:23
Seymour Buts wrote:
23 Feb 2023, 23:22
claretandblue wrote:
23 Feb 2023, 17:43
Doesn't look like we are going to be having any training on this, photocopies of the procedure we're on our frames when we got back today, we go live on Monday. :crazy:
It ain't difficult tbf. It's a pain, but not complicated. Literally click indoor, scan to core route then scan your tracked. Upload to cloud, then load your route as normal and you'll have the option of listing your delivery points.
Can you do them as you get them, or do they all have to be scanned together?
You can scan them as you get them, you just save to draft and upload to the cloud once you've tied up.
You can't in our DO as all the PDA's are locked away until the sorting is completed!! I usually scan them as I put them in order into the van, I still can't see what RM gains by individual OPG's scanning their own parcels when we still give a 4(?) hours window for them to be delivered and I doubt many customers take any notice of the window in any event.
postieblueshirt
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Re: Scanning to route

Post by postieblueshirt »

TopperGas wrote:
24 Feb 2023, 19:10
P13 wrote:
24 Feb 2023, 11:57
claretandblue wrote:
24 Feb 2023, 11:23
Seymour Buts wrote:
23 Feb 2023, 23:22
claretandblue wrote:
23 Feb 2023, 17:43
Doesn't look like we are going to be having any training on this, photocopies of the procedure we're on our frames when we got back today, we go live on Monday. :crazy:
It ain't difficult tbf. It's a pain, but not complicated. Literally click indoor, scan to core route then scan your tracked. Upload to cloud, then load your route as normal and you'll have the option of listing your delivery points.
Can you do them as you get them, or do they all have to be scanned together?
You can scan them as you get them, you just save to draft and upload to the cloud once you've tied up.
You can't in our DO as all the PDA's are locked away until the sorting is completed!! I usually scan them as I put them in order into the van, I still can't see what RM gains by individual OPG's scanning their own parcels when we still give a 4(?) hours window for them to be delivered and I doubt many customers take any notice of the window in any event.
They dont lol there still not in when you get there.
eastie
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Re: Scanning to route

Post by eastie »

What's the point as when we scan the core to route at 9.30 saying they will be delivered before 2pm but most people are at work anyway
rambo1
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Re: Scanning to route

Post by rambo1 »

TopperGas wrote:
24 Feb 2023, 19:10
P13 wrote:
24 Feb 2023, 11:57
claretandblue wrote:
24 Feb 2023, 11:23
Seymour Buts wrote:
23 Feb 2023, 23:22
claretandblue wrote:
23 Feb 2023, 17:43
Doesn't look like we are going to be having any training on this, photocopies of the procedure we're on our frames when we got back today, we go live on Monday. :crazy:
It ain't difficult tbf. It's a pain, but not complicated. Literally click indoor, scan to core route then scan your tracked. Upload to cloud, then load your route as normal and you'll have the option of listing your delivery points.
Can you do them as you get them, or do they all have to be scanned together?
You can scan them as you get them, you just save to draft and upload to the cloud once you've tied up.
You can't in our DO as all the PDA's are locked away until the sorting is completed!! I usually scan them as I put them in order into the van, I still can't see what RM gains by individual OPG's scanning their own parcels when we still give a 4(?) hours window for them to be delivered and I doubt many customers take any notice of the window in any event.
The only reason I can see at the moment is it saves one or two people being paid to scan every tracked for the office in ready for delivery in the morning. Instead, absorbing that into the duty holders day. If it's still giving a 4hr delivery slot there's no change there.
yellowbelly
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Re: Scanning to route

Post by yellowbelly »

rambo1 wrote:
28 Feb 2023, 06:46
TopperGas wrote:
24 Feb 2023, 19:10


You can't in our DO as all the PDA's are locked away until the sorting is completed!! I usually scan them as I put them in order into the van, I still can't see what RM gains by individual OPG's scanning their own parcels when we still give a 4(?) hours window for them to be delivered and I doubt many customers take any notice of the window in any event.
The only reason I can see at the moment is it saves one or two people being paid to scan every tracked for the office in ready for delivery in the morning. Instead, absorbing that into the duty holders day. If it's still giving a 4hr delivery slot there's no change there.
Had one myself the other day, the notification gave a 3hr window with a caveat that the time window is not guaranteed.