Sound Like A Stupid Question?
Not So Fast...
What qualifies as a parcel during a mail count varies from office to office depending on the person counting, that is just a fact.
Unlike the Supreme Court Justice defining pornography saying "I know what it is when I see it" A parcel is not so easy to define.
You have some offices that use the count measuring stick on every parcel during count and a parcel with a scan that can fit in the small slot it is a letter with a scan, if it fits in the bigger slot it is a flat with a scan, no consideration is given to how the item will be bent, spindled and mutilated during casing.
In other offices common cense is used, items that are handled as parcels all year long, are counted as parcels during count.
If we are to use figures generated by electronic means (scan data) Who the h**l knows what a parcel will be ?
To be sure they know the weight when the item is shipped, but dimensions? I'm not so sure about that.
If all parcels must be checked for qualification as a parcel, counted and logged each day at every office, well we will be cheated every day and the new improved system will be more time consuming and less efficient.
Yes they are supposed to count parcels every day for their reports, but they just guess or estimate, reports don't need to be done right...
the just need to be done.
Not So Fast...
What qualifies as a parcel during a mail count varies from office to office depending on the person counting, that is just a fact.
Unlike the Supreme Court Justice defining pornography saying "I know what it is when I see it" A parcel is not so easy to define.
You have some offices that use the count measuring stick on every parcel during count and a parcel with a scan that can fit in the small slot it is a letter with a scan, if it fits in the bigger slot it is a flat with a scan, no consideration is given to how the item will be bent, spindled and mutilated during casing.
In other offices common cense is used, items that are handled as parcels all year long, are counted as parcels during count.
If we are to use figures generated by electronic means (scan data) Who the h**l knows what a parcel will be ?
To be sure they know the weight when the item is shipped, but dimensions? I'm not so sure about that.
If all parcels must be checked for qualification as a parcel, counted and logged each day at every office, well we will be cheated every day and the new improved system will be more time consuming and less efficient.
Yes they are supposed to count parcels every day for their reports, but they just guess or estimate, reports don't need to be done right...
the just need to be done.