James Naish MP visited posties at Cotgrave Delivery Office in his constituency to show his support during the busiest time of the year for the postal service.
Around twice as many parcels and letters are sent through Royal Mail during the festive period compared with other months, as people send Christmas cards and shop for gifts online.
Cotgrave Delivery Office has a new recruit and an extra vehicle for the Christmas period.
James Naish MP visited postal workers at Cotgrave Delivery Office last week to find out more about what it takes to deliver letters and parcels in the peak Christmas period.
Christmas is Royal Mail’s busiest period, with around double the normal volume of letters and parcels processed.
James spoke to Customer Operations Manager Adam Radford about Royal Mail’s strategy to continue to make sending and receiving parcels as convenient as possible over the festive period by adding more choice.
This includes services like Parcel Collect, where posties pick up parcels from customers at the doorstep, and offering more ways to drop off parcels at convenient times and locations. Royal Mail has already rolled out more than 5,000 parcel points this year, including at Collect+ stores and its growing number of parcel lockers.
Royal Mail prepares all year to deliver Christmas. Across the UK, the business has recruited 16,000 temporary workers to help its 85,000 posties sort the additional mail and the increasing number of parcels expected over the festive period. Almost 4,000 new vans, trucks, and trailers are being added to the fleet in time for Christmas.
Cotgrave Delivery Office has hired a new recruit and an extra vehicle for the Christmas period to meet increased demand for deliveries in the local area.
Adam Radford, Customer Operations Manager for Cotgrave, said: “It was great to have James visit our Delivery Office and to show him how we are gearing up for our peak period. We are pulling out all the stops to deliver Christmas for our customers.”
James Naish, Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe, said: “Royal Mail is an iconic part of Christmas in the UK, so I was pleased to meet local posties who live in their communities and faithfully serve them day in, day out. It’s really helped to see how the operation works on the inside, and I’ll continue to engage with Royal Mail locally and nationally as it seeks to navigate and respond to a rapidly changing distribution and logistics sector.”
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