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Southern Super Hub - Any news?

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Southern Super Hub - Any news?

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Has anyone heard anything about it recently like where it's confirmed to be located, when it's due to open, which MCs will feed into it, etc?
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UK interest base rate is 5% at the very least over the medium term. Shitty zombie companies like RM will be charged a hefty premium over that to borrow.

Unless the company makes a massive turnaround I’d guess it’s naval gazing.
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Re: Southern Super Hub - Any news?

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Sorry to break the bad news to you. You'll just get tossed onto Delivery and have to deal with it (like every other Delivery Postie) or quit.

Also, not sure why this was posted in Blueshirts?
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mwalker88 wrote:
26 Oct 2023, 18:12
Also, not sure why this was posted in Blueshirts?
More chance of someone who knows something reading it
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Word is it was pencilled in for swindon.
But canned due to the high cost of land "dhann south"
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Re: Southern Super Hub - Any news?

Post by woody38 »

Thing they are going to use the Midlands one as it’s right on the border of South Central & the Midlands
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Re: Southern Super Hub - Any news?

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Midlands Hub can’t cope with what it has now, I heard that Royal Mail has opted to lease NDC for 10 years.
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Re: Southern Super Hub - Any news?

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It's going to be interesting to see what the long term affect is going to be on arrival times at inward MCs and the knock-on affects on MC>DO dispatch times and start and finish times in DOs.
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Union have already given us March start times on their website for individual offices
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Re: Southern Super Hub - Any news?

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SpacePhoenix wrote:
27 Oct 2023, 11:27
It's going to be interesting to see what the long term affect is going to be on arrival times at inward MCs and the knock-on affects on MC>DO dispatch times and start and finish times in DOs.

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Re: Southern Super Hub - Any news?

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Wat69 wrote:
27 Oct 2023, 14:34
SpacePhoenix wrote:
27 Oct 2023, 11:27
It's going to be interesting to see what the long term affect is going to be on arrival times at inward MCs and the knock-on affects on MC>DO dispatch times and start and finish times in DOs.

[/https://www.cwu.org/national-agreement- ... nish-times
If the Midlands hub is already overloaded then they're going to have to send some stuff back to the original MCs and the southern hub doesn't happen, I don't think them proposed times will mean a thing