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Extra scans for all packets (both Tracked and normal)
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Smoothbackground
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Re: Extra scans for all packets (both Tracked and normal)
It is obvious that the whole point of these extra scans is to let the customer — who is actually the sender, aka the person/company directly paying RM paying to ship the package, rather than the recipient — have visibility and an audit trail of their consignments at all times. In the event of lost parcels, it also helps narrow down the search as to when/where it was last scanned. This will be a selling point when seeking to win new business.
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TopperGas
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Re: Extra scans for all packets (both Tracked and normal)
Or perhaps a large number of parcels have started going missing between leaving the MC's and being scanned to core/ready for delivery at the DO's by individual posties, now that we no longer scan receipt of every parcel when it arrives at the DO?Smoothbackground wrote: ↑12 Oct 2024, 16:30It is obvious that the whole point of these extra scans is to let the customer — who is actually the sender, aka the person/company directly paying RM paying to ship the package, rather than the recipient — have visibility and an audit trail of their consignments at all times. In the event of lost parcels, it also helps narrow down the search as to when/where it was last scanned. This will be a selling point when seeking to win new business.
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Smoothbackground
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Re: Extra scans for all packets (both Tracked and normal)
And quite possibly this too.TopperGas wrote: ↑12 Oct 2024, 18:12Or perhaps a large number of parcels have started going missing between leaving the MC's and being scanned to core/ready for delivery at the DO's by individual posties, now that we no longer scan receipt of every parcel when it arrives at the DO?Smoothbackground wrote: ↑12 Oct 2024, 16:30It is obvious that the whole point of these extra scans is to let the customer — who is actually the sender, aka the person/company directly paying RM paying to ship the package, rather than the recipient — have visibility and an audit trail of their consignments at all times. In the event of lost parcels, it also helps narrow down the search as to when/where it was last scanned. This will be a selling point when seeking to win new business.
Our Sunday manager insists on everything being scanned into the DO on Sundays — unlike weekdays — so she has full visibility on her data dashboard. It also helps pin the precise location of where parcels might have been “lost”, whether innocently or otherwise. A good idea imho.
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SpacePhoenix
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Re: Extra scans for all packets (both Tracked and normal)
From what I've heard, the packets will be scanned out to an actual sleeve/york so I'm guessing that at the Inward MC or the DO there'll be some sort of container scan which will flag any items scanned out to that york/sleeve as having arrived at the Inward MC or DO
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Smoothbackground
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Re: Extra scans for all packets (both Tracked and normal)
Does this routinely happen with inbound work (ie work arriving into the DO for last-mile delivery)? A few weeks back our manager was able to identify from her computer screen in which of 45 Yorks of inbound work waiting to be sorted a particular parcel was supposed to be located. I was beginning to be impressed — until we searched through the York identified and it wasn’t in there after all!SpacePhoenix wrote: ↑12 Oct 2024, 21:43From what I've heard, the packets will be scanned out to an actual sleeve/york so I'm guessing that at the Inward MC or the DO there'll be some sort of container scan which will flag any items scanned out to that york/sleeve as having arrived at the Inward MC or DO
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SpacePhoenix
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Re: Extra scans for all packets (both Tracked and normal)
Think it's just yorks that have come from the superhubsSmoothbackground wrote: ↑13 Oct 2024, 17:28Does this routinely happen with inbound work (ie work arriving into the DO for last-mile delivery)? A few weeks back our manager was able to identify from her computer screen in which of 45 Yorks of inbound work waiting to be sorted a particular parcel was supposed to be located. I was beginning to be impressed — until we searched through the York identified and it wasn’t in there after all!SpacePhoenix wrote: ↑12 Oct 2024, 21:43From what I've heard, the packets will be scanned out to an actual sleeve/york so I'm guessing that at the Inward MC or the DO there'll be some sort of container scan which will flag any items scanned out to that york/sleeve as having arrived at the Inward MC or DO
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SpacePhoenix
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Re: Extra scans for all packets (both Tracked and normal)
Primary and secondary sorting setups will both scan all packets to a sleeve. No condensing of sleeves will be allowed, so be prepared for wave 2 to be a little heavier. At one time we'd scan trays of manual letters and flats out to DOs, I can see that returning. Long term I think RM will look into some kind of tech to allow it to have a breakdown of what manual letters and flats each walk has got.
Every last york has got a bluetooth tag on it so it can be detected when it enters any office. RM will be able to see if mail has not left a MC or has arrived at a DO and not been processed
Every last york has got a bluetooth tag on it so it can be detected when it enters any office. RM will be able to see if mail has not left a MC or has arrived at a DO and not been processed