Royal Mail hints it may seek to end Saturday letter deliveries.

[clashcityrocker]

There's no way that the LAT offices would be able to handle doing all the Tracked

Whether they can cope or not would be dependant on the resources available to them.
If they don't have the resources they won't be able to cope with 200 items.
If they do have adequate resourcing they will be able to cope with 7000.

[Woody Guthrie]

I don't think it's really a case of whether LAT offices can cope, as Clash points out the afternoon deliveries will be resourced to the traffic they receive whether it's 200 or 7000.

The size and quantity of Tracked that move on to afternoon deliveries will depend on which is the better financial outcome for the business, separating the smaller stuff and sending them through the Mail centre network for morning delivery or keeping them in the superhub system and sending them directly to the delivery offices for afternoon delivery.

Since the superhubs will come online in stages I think it will probably be a dog's dinner combination of both to start with but it's hard to see a justification for the smaller tracked to be done by van in the afternoon after a walking postie has covered the ground already.

The last thing you want to do with parcel deliveries is have them basically walking the length of every street hitting every third door with something that goes through a letterbox. It's supposed to be about saving money after all.

[SpacePhoenix]

separating the smaller stuff

The small and large Tracked is often mixed together. Often with normal packets, so DOs might still get large stuff through

[Woody Guthrie]

separating the smaller stuff

The small and large Tracked is often mixed together. Often with normal packets, so DOs might still get large stuff through

I'm not sure but I think the end game might be that all tracked initially enter the pipeline at the superhubs directly from the retailers so if that's the case there shouldn't be any mixing. Obviously if the small tracked then move on to the mail centre network they could then get mixed but I think the idea is that they'll hit the mail centre pre-sorted for DOs (that's the whole point of these superhubs).

Whether any of that will work in practice is a different story.

[SpacePhoenix]

separating the smaller stuff

The small and large Tracked is often mixed together. Often with normal packets, so DOs might still get large stuff through

I'm not sure but I think the end game might be that all tracked initially enter the pipeline at the superhubs directly from the retailers so if that's the case there shouldn't be any mixing. Obviously if the small tracked then move on to the mail centre network they could then get mixed but I think the idea is that they'll hit the mail centre pre-sorted for DOs (that's the whole point of these superhubs).

Whether any of that will work in practice is a different story.

One thing they'd need to sort out is whether the inward MC would have to scan them. They'd have to be dispatched to the hubs quite late as there could be Tracked returns in collections and there'd probably be some Tracked from smaller senders who might not separate the Tracked and non-Tracked (they might only keep the SDs separate)