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Royal Mail has announced it has reached a milestone in its modernisation strategy, reaching its target of 90% automation across its parcel operations. It described the achievement as ‘a major step forward in efficiency and improved service’.
This milestone was hit after Royal Mail invested in: the opening of two ‘state-of-the-art’, automated parcel hubs in Warrington and Daventry which can reportedly process up to 1.5 million parcels a day combined, the addition of 10 specially-designed large parcel conveyors at mail centres across the country, to manage bigger parcels; and three new high-speed parcel sortation machines added to mail centres in Leeds, Plymouth and Exeter, each one increasing processing by 21,000 parcels per hour.
Royal Mail claimed that these investments have ‘boosted the quick handling of deliveries, especially during the Christmas and peak periods, meeting the growing demand for items to arrive the next day’. Read more
Source: LOGISTICS MANAGER
