Out of this world 🌍

10/11/23

Mail. 123. Monthly. 769

Parcels. 64. Monthly. 554. Same day delivery. 100%

“Out of this world 🌍” was the words ringing in my ears after one delivery today. “I only ordered this at 1 O’Clock“. I looked down at my watch and it was 1.45pm. “That’s Local Postal Solutions” I proudly said back. Every day I have a stunned customer who can’t get their head round how we deliver so quick. How do we do it? It’s quite simple, instant sorting and not using technology. Everything has gone tech crazy, and the truth is we think we need it for every single job we do. But we don’t. In my old job I would be given 40 parcels every parcel would need to be scanned, you’d have an issue with barcodes, app crashes most days. Once their scanned the route needs to be downloaded. Now I’ve worked at Royal Mail and Evri and the route planning on these things is nothing short of embarrassingly bad. The parcels then need to be sorted in an order and loaded into a van. This process can take between 30-45 minutes by which time I’ve left my premises and have less than 30 parcels left to do. Companies rely so heavily on technology that they don’t think they can do the job without it. The truth is technology has dramatically slowed down the delivery process yet the workload has doubled. Just while we are on technology has anyone ever signed on one of them things and thought that looks just like my signature?……………no, so what is the actual point of signing on them.

Todays bike delivery was brutal yet amazing. Over 50km long but fortunately the rain stayed away. My legs were aching all afternoon and they will be happy to have tomorrow morning off. We were hoping to have some promising news this week on the mail front, but these things I have had to learn take time. With committee meetings and board meetings and so on, getting businesses to change over despite their current lack of service for an over priced delivery is proving quite tricky.

The weekend is upon us once more and I will be trying to take a full day away from work on Sunday, it never really happens, I am usually drawn into sorting or invoicing. I don’t really have an evening were I don’t sort. To give you an idea of how it works (cue bore fest) the Wirral is split into 4 quarters. Quarter 1 - Monday delivery - CH42(1/2) CH62, CH63

Quarter 2 - Tuesday delivery - CH41, CH42(1/2), CH44, CH45

Quarter 3 - Wednesday delivery - CH43, CH46, CH49

Quarter 4 - Thursday delivery - CH47,CH48, CH60, CH61

Mail is released every day and each quarter is sorted in a route, every day that passes without that quarter going out the route gets bigger as mail gets sorted in every evening. Eventually after 4 working days each quarter gets serviced. As our client base grows and we get more mail, each quarter becomes to big for delivery, we then split the routes into 5 (approx 2 and a half postcodes per delivery). Then once we get even busier we can split the routes into 6 (approx 2 postcodes per delivery). Once this gets maxed out, we then split the Wirral into two and employ another operative to cover half the postcodes.

The potential we have is mammoth and that’s just the mail side. The parcels side has grown rapidly especially considering it wasn’t meant to be introduced till spring 2024. When we trialled our first parcel client the combination of mail and parcels worked so well together that it just grew alongside each other. We are evolving all the time, and it’s extremely exciting. The future is bright, we’ve set the benchmark for same day delivery and our customers are getting parcels within hours of ordering, it’s out of this world.

Not just a postman.