Does anybody know what Royal Mail Pouch Boxes are?

RM has put in a bulk planning application for the erection of a number of these at various places in North East Derbyshire.

The grey boxes at the side of the road generally seen near postboxes!!

Postmen have their sacks delivered to them via these storage boxes and they collect them with a special key - also reduces the weight they have to carry etc!

You really don't notice them at all!

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Shiesh, I thought they might be but then none of the places mentioned in the application had post boxes nearby.

If thats what they are I wonder why they are being put up. Are they making the posties deliver on bigger rounds or something after all I wouldn't have thought that the volume of post had increased by that much if at all. Bigger rounds = less posties????

We don't get our post at the moment til 2.30 ish so I'd hate to think that it might get even later than that :suspect:

Yeah it sounds like the same posties are being asked to cover larger areas to me...:suspect:

Our postman delivers in our area on a morning then I often see him hopping on a bus around 1pm-maybe he then goes and does an afternoon round somewhere else...and here's me thinking he was on his way home...:confused:

At lease they don't have to walk around with heavy pouches etc...

I have seen some older/less fitter posties with the trollies with pouches either side (pretty much like laden donkeys) - I wonder if the posties have a personal choice of equipment...

I am sure when PoStMaN comes online he will put the record straight!!

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My dads a postman and uses one of these boxes, He has 3-4 estates to deliver to on our estate most days ends up with at least 2 large bags of mail as well as each of the side saddles on the back of the bike being filled up, thats just for the regular mail, on the days where he has to deliver the "junk mail" to each house on his round he can have up to 5 bags, these boxes are extremly helpful as there is only so much post he can keep on the bike safely, the posties on foot cant carry as much as my dad at one time, so they have even more stuff to go in the boxes.

Susie
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They changed the rounds when they changed to single delivery - they were on about putting new pouch boxes in then - seems like they've finally got round to it - that's about right for RM :)

My neighbour has one placed on the side of her house (inside her fence).
She gets a little rent for it and her daughter gets a bit of reasurance as it means her old mother gets a guaranteed visit from the postie every day!:)

More post box's because there is more mail....well more mail that nobody wants really, mail of the junk kind. if we dident have all this junk mail to sort then you would propely get your mail 2 hours before what you are getting at the moment, exspecilay in the more affluent areas of Sheffild "you know who you are" :heyhey: :heyhey:

If only everyone sent back the mail there dident want telling the companies to take them off the mailing list. Maybe just maybe you will all get your post a but more at a reasonable time.

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Thats my rant over on the subject :hihi:

And as for 40 pence for a 1st class stamp, i say charge a bout then we can get paid 30,000 grand a year, and all is well :hihi: :hihi:

I always feel sorry for a postman when I see any with heavy sacks..

:D My sacks are allways Heavy :| :| :D