My office.Diverting second class machineable letters/flats.

[postiebob]

My office seems to be diverting second class machineable letters and flats to Leeds and Manchester, is anyone other office suffering like we are, could be the start of the end for us. Sorry forgot to mention I'm from Darlington.
Postiebob

[POSTMAN]

I've split this and made it your own thread.
Where bouts are you?maybe some of the others on here will have some info.

[postiebob]

When I went to work last night I was told there was a union meeting this Sunday at 10:30am to discuss and formulate a response to the recent announcement about the removal of our work and jobs from Darlington mail centre. Has anybody else got this problem and what about a union meeting that early on a Sunday morning. What time do you hold your meetings.

[woemc]

If you are diverting work, you have to much in your office. Therefor, you must have open docket/overtime?

If not, why not? Get the union on to it!

[F0zziebear]

If there is too much (don't know the answer) and there is spare capacity elsewhere, then it surely makes sense to utilise that capacity without having to use docket/overtime. This is assuming that quality of service does not suffer etc...

RM has a pipeline that it pays for (similar to telecoms and gas sector) and you want to have that pipeline as full & and has flexible as possible?

Am I missing something here?

[postiebob]

Like I said in my previous post " theres a union meeting to discuss the removal of work and jobs from my mail centre" now if they were discussing one or the other you could be right but both together sounds like a winding down operation too me how about you. First we lost our First class despatch to Newcastle as it would save money, I believe all work in Newcastle on a Saturday is S/A over time rates, then the Sundays went, it appears that they are now trying to get rid of the second class work which will afftect quite a few on earlies, watch out this could happen to you!

[F0zziebear]

There have been closures going on for years. More will come, whether they are doing it by cloak & dagger I honestly don't know.

RM has a legacy network from when mail was used as a social form of communication. It made sense to have a network of collections and processing in every area. This is just not the case anymore. Most mail is B2C via direct mailing produced at v.large print factories. RM will be best able to compete by having processing at key transportation links around the country.

There is no surprise in my mind that Rugby/Daventry have become the centre of distribution in this country as it's the junction between the M1/M6.

RM are losing huge swathes of outbound mech mail to TNT/UK Mail and DHL (with others gaining licences and further pushing the prices down). This must mean that RM will have spare capacity at numerous mail centres, which either means they are not commercially viable.

Your best bet is to become an expert processing person with the new machinery TNT/UK Mail & DHL are using. That is the safest way of securing your long term future in processing. RM's machinery is out-dated at best.

[POSTMAN]

Bob,read about FOzzie here The FOzzmeister

But what i don't understand then Fozz,if all these MLO's close,then how are they going to get the work down to us.
For instance,i presume you know Nine Elms,they do SE my patch and SW,i would again presume they are safe,or are they?
Nearest one to me down my way is Dartford,but that's a bit of a slog.
How many are there in London?and what with traffic and the like,The Old Kent Road at rush hour in the morn,that starts at 5-30ish.
I would of thought in the major cities they would be pretty safe.

[F0zziebear]

London:

Lonodn used to have about 10 mail centres. It will have only 4 soon (once West London Mail Centre finally closes) You Have Mount Pleasant, ELMC, Nine Elms, and Greenford.

Meeting quality of service requirements is based on having processing and distribution centred around the main road transportation hubs. The original set-up was based around railway stations, which most don't use anymore.

Mount Pleasant will be replaced with a one-level mail centre built on the current car-park (to the best of my knowledge).

I'm away for the next couple of weeks so will entertain you all with my musing on my return

F0zzie in the wilderness

[POSTMAN]

Not sure if you're gonna read this then if you're on your hols,ps be carefull with customs
Bit of a rumour that ELMC could close as their lease runs out just before the Olympics.
Anyway,can't see just 4 being enough anyway!!

[L Tommo]

When WE moved in to our new lovely brand new spanking sparkling super smashing great M.C. the head screws told us We would all be ohh so happy ... Then the news came out about the short term lease and WHOLLOP!!!! ohhhhh SO THATS HOW LONG WE WILL B HAPPY HERE THEN?????


NOT REALLY JUST PISSED OFF AS PER NORM..

OUT..


DONT LET THE BASTARDS GRIND US DOWN...

[postiebob]

I hear the reason that mail is being diverted is since foreign mail was taken out of Manchester they have machines doing very little, flat sorting machines can also handle mech mail. A source who has seen one of these machines else where says once its full and ready to go you need another 500 trays of mail or its not worth running, anybody else heard this.

[postiebob]

Just been informed there was an emergency meeting this morning, RM want to divert all our second class to Newcastle, this has nothing to do with overtime it looks as if this goes through the first class will be next, making us probably a delivery office and an ivo.