RMCtv : Delivery to specification mail / DTS – Deployment Successfully completed

[Manboat]

Anybody know when this is starting and what type of time savings it’s supposed to save us daily roughly.

[SpacePhoenix]

Won't be happening everywhere. We don't have the machine capacity for it to work. Most of our batches are already near the limit for the number of delivery points. To have the 2 spare stackers needed, all our batches would need to be split into two and there's not enough spare stackers on our iLSMs

[Manboat]

Really, seems strange they would bring out a new product that couldn’t be implemented across the whole country. Was hoping it would be coming in soon to give us a chance of clearing for a change

[SpacePhoenix]

Really, seems strange they would bring out a new product that couldn’t be implemented across the whole country. Was hoping it would be coming in soon to give us a chance of clearing for a change

Apparently it requires 2 spare stackers on each CSS batch, which is something we don't have (just about every batch requires all 19 stackers (stacker 20 is the overflow/reject stacker). RM would need to install additional CSS machines. I've heard that the mothballed ones around the country have been cannibalised so much now that they're beyond ever being reused so RM would need to buy new ones from Solystsic.

[Manboat]

Ok cheers for that, will see if it happens then here at some point.

[baldyuk]

DtS on CSS machine's...

You only used stackers 18 & 19 on pass 1 only!!

This mail is deferred for the next night work for up to 4 more night's depending when it get assigned to be delivered.

On pass 2 onwards everything is normal as before so batches don't need to be changed.

Split should be 85 / 15 % !!

Second wave mail is walk sorted.

[SpacePhoenix]

DtS on CSS machine's...

You only used stackers 18 & 19 on pass 1 only!!

This mail is deferred for the next night work for up to 4 more night's depending when it get assigned to be delivered.

On pass 2 onwards everything is normal as before so batches don't need to be changed.

Split should be 85 / 15 % !!

Second wave mail is walk sorted.

Most of our batches require ALL stackers due to the number of DPs on them. If you for example "locked a stacker out of use" then the machine would refuse most batches.

A split of 85% / 15% will never happen all the time. Some batches will often have half a dozen boxes on wave 2.

We start our wave 2 before the iLSMs have finished running plan 1. The CSSs normally have 1 maybe 2 batches left ton run on wave 2 when the iLSM is just finishing. The very early batches will have a box (or probably more on a busier day).

Half of our wave 2 is sequenced, some machines it's more than that

[2yearpostie]

How come our sequenced is coming in completely wrong recently, we are getting a quarter of each walk put in a box that is labelled wrongly. ie a bit of x walk, a bit of z walk a bit of f walk all in the same box.

[SpacePhoenix]

How come our sequenced is coming in completely wrong recently, we are getting a quarter of each walk put in a box that is labelled wrongly. ie a bit of x walk, a bit of z walk a bit of f walk all in the same box.

Have you had a load of changes to loads of walks recently? if you have it might be that the changes haven't been added to the A+ (think it might be called something like Routeplanner now). The sequencing sort plans are based on that data so if that data is wrong then the sequencing sort plans will be wrong

[2yearpostie]

How come our sequenced is coming in completely wrong recently, we are getting a quarter of each walk put in a box that is labelled wrongly. ie a bit of x walk, a bit of z walk a bit of f walk all in the same box.

Have you had a load of changes to loads of walks recently? if you have it might be that the changes haven't been added to the A+ (think it might be called something like Routeplanner now). The sequencing sort plans are based on that data so if that data is wrong then the sequencing sort plans will be wrong

Strangely the revised walks are fine, its the ones they havent touched which have gone a bit haphazard!

[POSTMAN]

[SpacePhoenix]

Just watched the CSS vid and it's going to be even more of a cluster f**k than I thought. It says in the video that sequencing won't be able to be started before midnight. Well they can dream on, our sequencing starts iirc about 21:30, during a light day they can get away with that but on a normal or busy night, if it was a midnight start on the sequencing WE WILL FAIL some of the sequencing. Deliveries will need to get used to the idea of getting more manual and if it gets bad enough, the last couple of batches will just have to be all sent out as manual.

We sometimes on a extremely busy night run sequencing on our iLSMs, so any DTS mail run through there will just go to the relevant stackers for the walks they're on. Sequencing plans on iLSMs will normally cover 3-4 CSS batches each

It still doesn't change the fact that near enough all our batches REQUIRE ALL 19 STACKERS and there's not the room on our iLSMs to have all batches split into 2.

The getting the 1st class done by 22:00 normally happens anyway, Xmas pressure time though they won't have a chance as we'll be running 1C all night, and often some batches will end up if there's time with the wave 1 stuff being split into 2 and run in 2 hits.

Installing extra CSS machines isn't an option as we've not go any room for them to go, plus we won't have the staff to run them. We can sometimes struggle for staffing on the mech as it is.

[wallan]

Possibly the End Of 1st Class Letters ,
Standard Clsss , Next Day Delivery within the MC Posting / Delivery Area ( Day B ) ,
Distant Letters into the the Inward MC by 2359 on Day B for processing on Day C

[SpacePhoenix]

Possibly the End Of 1st Class Letters ,
Standard Clsss , Next Day Delivery within the MC Posting / Delivery Area ( Day B ) ,
Distant Letters into the the Inward MC by 2359 on Day B for processing on Day C

That wouldn't be financially viable. For the amount of work that they'd be, it wouldn't be worth the cost of processing it

[wallan]

Possibly the End Of 1st Class Letters ,
Standard Clsss , Next Day Delivery within the MC Posting / Delivery Area ( Day B ) ,
Distant Letters into the the Inward MC by 2359 on Day B for processing on Day C

That wouldn't be financially viable. For the amount of work that they'd be, it wouldn't be worth the cost of processing it

To keep the public happy you would have to Provide a " Local " Next Day Delivery for Letters