Royal Mail vows to deliver Christmas for Bristol after last year's chaotic scenes

[TrueBlueTerrier]

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bris ... as-8821013

The 2022 festive period was mired by strike action and saw a huge build up of letters and parcels at the Filton sorting office



Royal Mail’s boss has vowed to deliver Christmas for Bristol – in contrast to last year’s chaotic scenes. The 2022 festive period was mired by strike action and saw a huge build up of letters and parcels at the Filton sorting office.

But yesterday the delivery service announced it was recruiting 460 members of temporary staff in Bristol to ensure the Christmas post arrived on time. Chief operating officer Grant McPherson said: “We are pulling out all the stops to deliver Christmas for our customers. It’s our busiest time of the year and we know how important it is for people that we deliver letters and parcels on time.

“By planning ahead and hiring more people, vans and trucks, we are well-prepared to handle the expected increased festive mail and parcels and deliver the high standards of service our customers expect from Royal Mail.” Temporary positions are available from
this month through to early January.


The period for the additional temporary work includes Black Friday and Cyber Monday but will be at its peak in December, a spokesman said, adding “competitive pay and flexible working across a range of shifts are offered”. Nationally the company has increased its fleet with an additional 6,800 vehicles and hired more than 1,000 road haulage contractors to transport the festive mail and parcels across the country.

A total 176,500 sqm of extra temporary space – equivalent to 16 football pitches - has been created across five seasonal parcel sort centres located in Atherstone, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Daventry, and Greenford in London. Early in December last year a Royal Mail worker of long service told the Post they had never witnessed a backlog of deliveries like it.

[clashcityrocker]

Failing offices:
1.) Bristol South DO (BS3, BS13 and BS41)
2.) Bristol South East DO (BS4 and BS14)
3.) Clevedon DO (BS21)
4.) East Dulwich DO (SE22)
5.) Weston Super Mare DO (BS22, BS23 and BS24)
6.) Wrington DO (BS40)

5 out of the 6 with a BS postcode.
It isn't looking too great for Christmas in Bristol.

[guardianangel]

No chance of delivering xmas in our office ,our managers look lost in the headlights.

[ted_e_bear]

Apparently we're getting some extra vans but even with no one on holiday there's not enough staff for every duty, apparently they wanted to get the lapsed duties covered but there's no chance of that, so not sure what use the vans will be, last year one of our Xmas vans only got used once.

[SpacePhoenix]

Apparently we're getting some extra vans but even with no one on holiday there's not enough staff for every duty, apparently they wanted to get the lapsed duties covered but there's no chance of that, so not sure what use the vans will be, last year one of our Xmas vans only got used once.

Do you have any pairings where the "walker" can also drive? Maybe in that scenario they'll send both out with their own vans

[ted_e_bear]

Apparently we're getting some extra vans but even with no one on holiday there's not enough staff for every duty, apparently they wanted to get the lapsed duties covered but there's no chance of that, so not sure what use the vans will be, last year one of our Xmas vans only got used once.

Do you have any pairings where the "walker" can also drive? Maybe in that scenario they'll send both out with their own vans

Yeah prob could do but that wouldn't really help, they'd be better off "motorizing" two hct duties into a shared van duty which would be a bit of a shock to our resident hct parcel piss takers.