Large parcels and Parcel Force

[geordieboy123]

Just seen on Robin (I know I know I was bored) people seeking clarity as to why we’re getting much bigger parcels and the new arrangement with Parcel Force. In another post on here I asked the same question as I was led to believe that PF were no longer doing customer collections but were taking our large parcels but so far we’re still doing the large parcels and there getting bigger. One colleague said he had to collect two car seats 30kg a piece took all the space in his small van. Someone else’s colleague went to collect a 1kg parcel and it turned out to be a three piece suite they were sending back.
WTF is going on ?

[menditsa]

Something somewhere has f****d up because the day posties started doing adhoc collections my DPR afternoon route started getting parcels as big as me that I physically could not lift out of a lined york.

[TooManyLoops]

I don't know if it's me or not. But the amount of T24 coming through instead of T48 that PF now take seems to have gone through the roof

I must admit, seeing less big stuff now

But, PF Express collections are a shitter, trying to get 4 car tyres into Combo isn't happening

[funkflex55]

Where is the lifting equipment we need to move these big and heavy items and where is the manual handling training for doing so or using the equipment. If anyone gets hurt doing this RM will be liable to paying out due to the above

[SkiSunday]

Where is the lifting equipment we need to move these big and heavy items and where is the manual handling training for doing so or using the equipment. If anyone gets hurt doing this RM will be liable to paying out due to the above

Apparently 200 parcel deliveries per shift is the norm now....apart from the "busy period" obviously

[SMS1969]

Just seen on Robin (I know I know I was bored) people seeking clarity as to why we’re getting much bigger parcels and the new arrangement with Parcel Force. In another post on here I asked the same question as I was led to believe that PF were no longer doing customer collections but were taking our large parcels but so far we’re still doing the large parcels and there getting bigger. One colleague said he had to collect two car seats 30kg a piece took all the space in his small van. Someone else’s colleague went to collect a 1kg parcel and it turned out to be a three piece suite they were sending back.
WTF is going on ?

I’d tell them to fook right off with that..

[SMS1969]

Where is the lifting equipment we need to move these big and heavy items and where is the manual handling training for doing so or using the equipment. If anyone gets hurt doing this RM will be liable to paying out due to the above

There aren’t any. Refuse it, tell the person sending it to contact the recipient and get another courier, maybe even Parcelforce, to collect it.

[SMS1969]

I don't know if it's me or not. But the amount of T24 coming through instead of T48 that PF now take seems to have gone through the roof

I must admit, seeing less big stuff now

But, PF Express collections are a shitter, trying to get 4 car tyres into Combo isn't happening

Keep refusing nonsense like this, we haven’t got the equipment or the vans,or even people when it’s single duties.

[SpacePhoenix]

Where is the lifting equipment we need to move these big and heavy items and where is the manual handling training for doing so or using the equipment. If anyone gets hurt doing this RM will be liable to paying out due to the above

With the Corex sleeves any lift that should be a 2-person lift can only ever be a 1-person lift as you have to lift it out the york before anyone can give you a hand with it.

[SkiSunday]

Where is the lifting equipment we need to move these big and heavy items and where is the manual handling training for doing so or using the equipment. If anyone gets hurt doing this RM will be liable to paying out due to the above

With the Corex sleeves any lift that should be a 2-person lift can only ever be a 1-person lift as you have to lift it out the york before anyone can give you a hand with it.

I suppose that means carrying up 5 flights of stairs is the same?

[minesastella2013]

Just ensure you maintain 3 points of contact at all times You have an accident, it will be your fault.

[meldaleuk]

Parcelforce driver here. In our depot we are still getting our normal bulk deliveries and now getting lots of large Royal Mail parcels, and quite a few smaller ones what would have been non pre advice, but passed to us. I think the company rushed this before getting the numbers of staff in each depot to be able to achieve a successful system. Our depot is now daily failing many deliveries, about 300 a day( these are normally large and take up a lot of space in the depot) when normally we clear. We are getting Royal Mail Large Tv's, Amazon Suitcases, and shitty Amazon boxes with one piece of tape to keep in 25kg of dog food. So if you think it is just one way traffic it is defiantly not, we are getting slammed too. Why they stopped us doing the POL collections I will never know, we have a large van, could accommodate this in our route and also drop off smaller parcels we couldn't deliver. Now we don't pick up from the POL anymore, and have to take out the ten parcels we could of got rid of the next day.

[tramssirhc]

Just seen on Robin (I know I know I was bored) people seeking clarity as to why we’re getting much bigger parcels and the new arrangement with Parcel Force. In another post on here I asked the same question as I was led to believe that PF were no longer doing customer collections but were taking our large parcels but so far we’re still doing the large parcels and there getting bigger. One colleague said he had to collect two car seats 30kg a piece took all the space in his small van. Someone else’s colleague went to collect a 1kg parcel and it turned out to be a three piece suite they were sending back.
WTF is going on ?

The reduction in larger items equated to around 3 per duty.

Large and heavy collection items are notified to COM's. Where an item is outside of the limits for collection on delivery Parcelforce are to be advised so they can arrange for a collection.

[ted_e_bear]

Large and heavy collection items are notified to COM's. Where an item is outside of the limits for collection on delivery Parcelforce are to be advised so they can arrange for a collection.

Well f**k me who'd have thought that could possibly go wrong

[tramssirhc]

Large and heavy collection items are notified to COM's. Where an item is outside of the limits for collection on delivery Parcelforce are to be advised so they can arrange for a collection.

Well f**k me who'd have thought that could possibly go wrong

It's always worth having a look at the weight on the job on the PDA. Yeah, it's not always there, right enough. We've been told if it fits within the dimensions of a York it's ours. Obviously heavy lifts still need dynamic risk assessing,