Parcels Are Way Down

[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?

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

Surely they know what is tracked an non tracked an recorded accordingly.stay on the mech lol at least you know a wee bit bout that lol

[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.

Surely they know what is tracked an non tracked an recorded accordingly.stay on the mech lol at least you know a wee bit bout that lol

You get three totals on screen on the PDA. The total of Tracked, the total of non-Tracked and the total scanned (total of Tracked + total of non-Tracked). The PDA software is the same in every MC, all staff will use it at some point. The new scanning system AFAIK is due to go live from Monday so I believe in theory the screws in DOs should know how many Tracked and non-Tracked each walk will have. As soon as a sleeve or york arrive a DO, the system will deem all items scanned out to that sleeve or york to have arrived at the DO