Passionate about parcels!

Spent time in the Stock dept today learning about stock control, courtesy of Gail Draper. I can tell that Carol is going to be a stickler for her paperclips! This evening we were taken out to dinner by two very nice chaps from CityLink, who were happy to discuss the ins and outs of parcel distribution, as well as golf, football and lots of other blokey things! After dinner we visited the CityLink Hub in Birmingham. I'd always wondered how all of the thousands and thousands of parcels that we send each year ended up at the right Consultants house - well now I know! It's quite an amazing sight to see - all of the lorries from the local depots arriving at the hub and very quickly being unloaded and re-loaded to drive back to their depot with the right parcels. They had something like 425 staff working tonight between 10pm and 2am - it was chaos! We were given a guided tour and commentary by the General Manager - I have never known anyone talk so passionately about parcels - your stock is in good hands!!