"Improving productivity will be key, and that is very likely to mean redundancies and changes to work practices"

[SpacePhoenix]

Job cuts in the masses will happen in mail centres. That's a definite. Casuals are easy to come by for evening or night shift operations as it fits around their other jobs . Automation increasing over the years and more effectively. Also reckon you'll see a few mail centres close and possibly a 3 rd new hub in the south built as heard the bosses are not wanting a continuous flow of artics or 7.5t lorries travelling from south east or south west to midland hub . I say watch this space as the new hub in the pipeline and legacy workers forced out die to their sickness and pension costs

Increased automation will eventually have a knock-on affect in DOs. Once there's enough automation capacity, RM will likely have packets sorted down to walk level, which will mean less indoor time in DOs and more outdoor time.

[Idk]

Job cuts in the masses will happen in mail centres. That's a definite. Casuals are easy to come by for evening or night shift operations as it fits around their other jobs . Automation increasing over the years and more effectively. Also reckon you'll see a few mail centres close and possibly a 3 rd new hub in the south built as heard the bosses are not wanting a continuous flow of artics or 7.5t lorries travelling from south east or south west to midland hub . I say watch this space as the new hub in the pipeline and legacy workers forced out die to their sickness and pension costs

Increased automation will eventually have a knock-on affect in DOs. Once there's enough automation capacity, RM will likely have packets sorted down to walk level, which will mean less indoor time in DOs and more outdoor time.

Whoever sends our work to us can't even get the right office most days, we get at least two other offices mixed in most days.

[postslippete]

Increased automation will eventually have a knock-on affect in DOs. Once there's enough automation capacity, RM will likely have packets sorted down to walk level, which will mean less indoor time in DOs and more outdoor time.

Well, that is the long game that RM is playing. Our office still pays staff overtime to manual sort parcels into postcode area's and IPS so this would immediately be cut. There is no doubt that RM will save millions by reducing indoor hours doing this.

[Woody Guthrie]

Increased automation will eventually have a knock-on affect in DOs. Once there's enough automation capacity, RM will likely have packets sorted down to walk level, which will mean less indoor time in DOs and more outdoor time.

It's unlikely parcels would ever be segregated to duty level, although this would remove some indoor time in a DO it would be minimal across all deliveries and the impact on distribution would be significant and negate any savings , the increase in the number of Yorks needed to split the parcels into individual duties would mean far too many trucks, fuel and drivers.

[Barnacle]

Increased automation will eventually have a knock-on affect in DOs. Once there's enough automation capacity, RM will likely have packets sorted down to walk level, which will mean less indoor time in DOs and more outdoor time.

It's unlikely parcels would ever be segregated to duty level, although this would remove some indoor time in a DO it would be minimal across all deliveries and the impact on distribution would be significant and negate any savings , the increase in the number of Yorks needed to split the parcels into individual duties would mean far too many trucks, fuel and drivers.

Even a small office would need at least 20 Yorks. I can see how attractive the idea is to the suits because they have no concept of the practicalities.

[SpacePhoenix]

Job cuts in the masses will happen in mail centres. That's a definite. Casuals are easy to come by for evening or night shift operations as it fits around their other jobs . Automation increasing over the years and more effectively. Also reckon you'll see a few mail centres close and possibly a 3 rd new hub in the south built as heard the bosses are not wanting a continuous flow of artics or 7.5t lorries travelling from south east or south west to midland hub . I say watch this space as the new hub in the pipeline and legacy workers forced out die to their sickness and pension costs

Increased automation will eventually have a knock-on affect in DOs. Once there's enough automation capacity, RM will likely have packets sorted down to walk level, which will mean less indoor time in DOs and more outdoor time.

Whoever sends our work to us can't even get the right office most days, we get at least two other offices mixed in most days.

Let me guess, the york header cards are purple and white?

[SpacePhoenix]

Increased automation will eventually have a knock-on affect in DOs. Once there's enough automation capacity, RM will likely have packets sorted down to walk level, which will mean less indoor time in DOs and more outdoor time.

It's unlikely parcels would ever be segregated to duty level, although this would remove some indoor time in a DO it would be minimal across all deliveries and the impact on distribution would be significant and negate any savings , the increase in the number of Yorks needed to split the parcels into individual duties would mean far too many trucks, fuel and drivers.

Even a small office would need at least 20 Yorks. I can see how attractive the idea is to the suits because they have no concept of the practicalities.

Nope. Just needs a second machine which does the sorting to walk level. Operating on the same principle as the CSS, the larger machine sorts the packets into batches, the smaller machine sorts the contents of them batches into bags, one bag for each walk.

[Barnacle]

Increased automation will eventually have a knock-on affect in DOs. Once there's enough automation capacity, RM will likely have packets sorted down to walk level, which will mean less indoor time in DOs and more outdoor time.

It's unlikely parcels would ever be segregated to duty level, although this would remove some indoor time in a DO it would be minimal across all deliveries and the impact on distribution would be significant and negate any savings , the increase in the number of Yorks needed to split the parcels into individual duties would mean far too many trucks, fuel and drivers.

Even a small office would need at least 20 Yorks. I can see how attractive the idea is to the suits because they have no concept of the practicalities.

Nope. Just needs a second machine which does the sorting to walk level. Operating on the same principle as the CSS, the larger machine sorts the packets into batches, the smaller machine sorts the contents of them batches into bags, one bag for each walk.

You’d have to double that at least. What about oversize? Are they on separate Yorks?

But we need to rewind. There are hundreds of walks that aren’t on one frame. They collect loops from other frames. So they would have to do a revision before any of this.

[ted_e_bear]

Increased automation will eventually have a knock-on affect in DOs. Once there's enough automation capacity, RM will likely have packets sorted down to walk level, which will mean less indoor time in DOs and more outdoor time.

It's unlikely parcels would ever be segregated to duty level, although this would remove some indoor time in a DO it would be minimal across all deliveries and the impact on distribution would be significant and negate any savings , the increase in the number of Yorks needed to split the parcels into individual duties would mean far too many trucks, fuel and drivers.

Even a small office would need at least 20 Yorks. I can see how attractive the idea is to the suits because they have no concept of the practicalities.

Nope. Just needs a second machine which does the sorting to walk level. Operating on the same principle as the CSS, the larger machine sorts the packets into batches, the smaller machine sorts the contents of them batches into bags, one bag for each walk.

"Bags" are we going back in time now

[SpacePhoenix]

You’d have to double that at least. What about oversize? Are they on separate Yorks?

Don't forget that PF is being merged into RM this month, so between them and the DPRs will likely cover all the oversize.

But we need to rewind. There are hundreds of walks that aren’t on one frame. They collect loops from other frames. So they would have to do a revision before any of this.

Pointless having a revision, how many DOs keep the walk data on Route Planner up to date now?

[Neverwasadoor]

They tried sorting the packets down to 2 walks to a york (like buddy boxes) in an office by us about six months ago, on a Saturday/Sunday night for Monday.
It over doubled the amount of Yorks for that office as you had some excess ones which were only a third full but can't be mixed. It lasted 2 weeks because of the extra runs required, and that's just one office.

[Woody Guthrie]

One bag per walk?
*Laughs awkwardly then realises the poor old boy is serious*

[postslippete]

One bag per walk?
*Laughs awkwardly then realises the poor old boy is serious*

Imagine having all your parcels for the day in one 11kg RM postal sack. Those were the days!

[jessicarabbit]

Remember the days of going out with your whole delivery in one brown square bag that had to be strapped to the flat front carrier in the days before black plastic buckets and blue pouches

[Idk]

One bag per walk?
*Laughs awkwardly then realises the poor old boy is serious*

Imagine having all your parcels for the day in one 11kg RM postal sack. Those were the days!

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