Parcels Are Way Down

[Barnacle]

As the title suggests, it isn’t just mail but parcels too that have dropped like a brick.

They forecast before Christmas that it was going to be monumentally heavy and Christmas just wasn’t that heavy at all. The numbers on Christmas 2024 will be interesting.

But back to my main query, are MCs staffed as usual? Are we really getting all there is, because if we are it’s pretty abysmal.

For example, I only had 24 tracked items today. That’s been unheard of.

[SpacePhoenix]

Unless some of the DOs locally had loads of direct yorks, packets were down MASSIVELY. In past years we've struggled for storage space for the work to be sorted. No such problems this year, in fact there's been a few times where there's been no work to bring in from the warehouse. Think the inward packets may have even run out of work a few times.

Xmas casuals as normal, we don't hold anything back at Xmas pressure. I don't work in distribution but I believe that as soon as there's a lorry load of work for a DO, the lorry gets loaded and sent straight off to the DO

[Barnacle]

Oh blimey, so it really is as grim as it seems.

[ted_e_bear]

Well thank f**k parcels were down this Christmas, I only had to leave half my mail daily to get them done, could have been worse perhaps I got off lightly.

[Barnacle]

In other years we have had a few loops of parcels taken of us by a postie who is delivering Christmas packets but that didn’t happen at any point this time and the only time it was overwhelming was Black Friday Fortnight.

[ConeHater]

Many Yks don’t need to venture beyond the load/unload area in mail centres. More than half of Yks I take to mail centres are sorted by parcel hubs to go directly to DO.

[SpacePhoenix]

Many Yks don’t need to venture beyond the load/unload area in mail centres. More than half of Yks I take to mail centres are sorted by parcel hubs to go directly to DO.

Only 2 or 3 DOs locally get direct yorks and that doesn't explain why packets are massively down

[Sean06]

Unless some of the DOs locally had loads of direct yorks, packets were down MASSIVELY. In past years we've struggled for storage space for the work to be sorted. No such problems this year, in fact there's been a few times where there's been no work to bring in from the warehouse. Think the inward packets may have even run out of work a few times.

Xmas casuals as normal, we don't hold anything back at Xmas pressure. I don't work in distribution but I believe that as soon as there's a lorry load of work for a DO, the lorry gets loaded and sent straight off to the DO

Obviously know nothing about distribution then if you think as soon as a lorry load of work is ready to go to do it goes..lanes are jam packed everyday 1 lorry can only take so much.

[Sean06]

As the title suggests, it isn’t just mail but parcels too that have dropped like a brick.

They forecast before Christmas that it was going to be monumentally heavy and Christmas just wasn’t that heavy at all. The numbers on Christmas 2024 will be interesting.

But back to my main query, are MCs staffed as usual? Are we really getting all there is, because if we are it’s pretty abysmal.

For example, I only had 24 tracked items today. That’s been unheard of.

Been told its been the heaviest ever year for parcels.

[Barnacle]

As the title suggests, it isn’t just mail but parcels too that have dropped like a brick.

They forecast before Christmas that it was going to be monumentally heavy and Christmas just wasn’t that heavy at all. The numbers on Christmas 2024 will be interesting.

But back to my main query, are MCs staffed as usual? Are we really getting all there is, because if we are it’s pretty abysmal.

For example, I only had 24 tracked items today. That’s been unheard of.

Been told its been the heaviest ever year for parcels.

Where are they then? Or do they actually mean Tracked?

[Pidleypoo]

Never seen it so busy and never ever had so many tracked.

These few days in between Christmas and new year we averaged about 90 tracked alone and that’s without what the dpr duties were doing.

[SpacePhoenix]

Unless some of the DOs locally had loads of direct yorks, packets were down MASSIVELY. In past years we've struggled for storage space for the work to be sorted. No such problems this year, in fact there's been a few times where there's been no work to bring in from the warehouse. Think the inward packets may have even run out of work a few times.

Xmas casuals as normal, we don't hold anything back at Xmas pressure. I don't work in distribution but I believe that as soon as there's a lorry load of work for a DO, the lorry gets loaded and sent straight off to the DO

Obviously know nothing about distribution then if you think as soon as a lorry load of work is ready to go to do it goes..lanes are jam packed everyday 1 lorry can only take so much.

Either you don't even work in a MC or your distribution manager is incompetent. Our distribution manager, if there's enough yorks of work to fill a lorry, if the driver isn't on a break, they're told to load up to capacity and go

[SpacePhoenix]

As the title suggests, it isn’t just mail but parcels too that have dropped like a brick.

They forecast before Christmas that it was going to be monumentally heavy and Christmas just wasn’t that heavy at all. The numbers on Christmas 2024 will be interesting.

But back to my main query, are MCs staffed as usual? Are we really getting all there is, because if we are it’s pretty abysmal.

For example, I only had 24 tracked items today. That’s been unheard of.

Been told its been the heaviest ever year for parcels.

Where are they then? Or do they actually mean Tracked?

Tracked and non-Tracked get sorted together and get sent out to the next MC (outward) or to the DO (inward) mixed together.

[Sean06]

Unless some of the DOs locally had loads of direct yorks, packets were down MASSIVELY. In past years we've struggled for storage space for the work to be sorted. No such problems this year, in fact there's been a few times where there's been no work to bring in from the warehouse. Think the inward packets may have even run out of work a few times.

Xmas casuals as normal, we don't hold anything back at Xmas pressure. I don't work in distribution but I believe that as soon as there's a lorry load of work for a DO, the lorry gets loaded and sent straight off to the DO

Obviously know nothing about distribution then if you think as soon as a lorry load of work is ready to go to do it goes..lanes are jam packed everyday 1 lorry can only take so much.

Either you don't even work in a MC or your distribution manager is incompetent. Our distribution manager, if there's enough yorks of work to fill a lorry, if the driver isn't on a break, they're told to load up to capacity and go

Def work in mc an maybe ours work diff from yours as majority of drivers deliver to do,s an do collections think most of them have 2 separate runs each.so deliver say to derry in morn then back to mc with collection 1hr 30min drive there an 1hr 30min back prob have break there aswell.then obviously off to a closer office rinse an repeat.

[Sean06]

As the title suggests, it isn’t just mail but parcels too that have dropped like a brick.

They forecast before Christmas that it was going to be monumentally heavy and Christmas just wasn’t that heavy at all. The numbers on Christmas 2024 will be interesting.

But back to my main query, are MCs staffed as usual? Are we really getting all there is, because if we are it’s pretty abysmal.

For example, I only had 24 tracked items today. That’s been unheard of.

Been told its been the heaviest ever year for parcels.

Where are they then? Or do they actually mean Tracked?

Going by mc i work in been rammed since sept.both tracked an ordinary.