8/11/23
Mail. 97. Monthly. 570
Parcels. 61. Monthly. 427. Same day delivery 100%
It was a very tough morning on the bike, I had to start much later than usual due to a few business calls that had to be made. Being left on hold for 40 minutes whilst knowing I should be out delivering eventually took its toll and the phone went down. Delivery always takes priority, even if it means me going out slightly frustrated that a task hasn’t been completed. The weather was grim anyway so it was never going to be my favourite day out on delivery. The fresh air and the exercise is always good for the mind. Deliveries have got longer on the bike due to volume but also due to me freeing up some time to give me more flexibility during the morning and a concentrated effort to try to move from a 5 day delivery to a 4 day delivery. It’s a very significant move that gives us even greater flexibility but also gives us scope to ramp up for Christmas.
The hope is that our Christmas post box will not only give people a chance to access our network. It will also show people what we are capable of, especially with regards to mail delivery. We are fully aware of our capabilities, but we have to accept we are a new business and it’s going to take time for people to change from what has always been the only way to send mail. The good news is we are in it for the long haul, as we deliver mail by bicycle there are very few costs involved, which explains how we can offer it cheaper than our competitors. The mail delivery is a support network for our parcels and our parcel delivery is a support network for our mail. They integrate seamlessly on a daily basis no matter where on the Wirral we are working.
We have recently sent out e-mails to every school on the Wirral offering further reductions in their postal costs. The minimum amount they will save per item is 19p. Generally we don’t think about the journey mail takes when it leaves a school. Most of that mail will be getting delivered within that schools catchment area. If you send this mail via Royal Mail, they collect and take the mail away from the catchment area and to a local hub. On the Wirral it’s Prenton. From there it is loaded onto a HGV and sent to Chester to be counted and sorted. It then returns later that week by HGV to its local office before being prepped and delivered by the postman. That mail has travelled over 50 miles it’s passed through numerous hands, it’s been in at least 2 small vans and 2 HGVs. It’s spent many hours waiting round on a shop floor, it may even have been mis-sorted and sent to a wrong part of the country. In our view every part of that process is unnecessary, time consuming, labour intensive, terrible for the environment and increases the possibility of mistakes and mis-delivery. At Local Postal Solutions, we call to the school collect the mail, sort the mail and deliver it instantly like within hours of collection. And by doing this we save the school so much money, we improve their service by delivering better than first class and we cut out fuel costs and deliver in a far more environmentally friendly and sustainable way. What a great lesson that is to pass on to the young minds of Wirral. Please feel free to share or ask the school where your children go. Have you heard of Local Postal Solutions?
Not just a postman.
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