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Ben Lake, MP for Ceredigion Preseli, visited the Llandysul delivery office on Friday, December 13, to show his support for the postal workers during their busiest time of the year.
As people send Christmas cards and shop for gifts online, around twice as many parcels and letters are sent through Royal Mail during the festive period compared with other months.
Llandysul delivery office has hired four extra vehicles for the Christmas period to meet the increased demand for deliveries in the area.
During his visit, Mr Lake spoke to customer operations manager Ryan Goellnitz about Royal Mail’s strategy for making 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.
Mr Lake said: “It was a pleasure to visit the Llandysul delivery office and witness the incredible volume of post that Royal Mail manages, not only here but across the country.
“This is an essential service throughout the year, but the work and planning that go into ensuring everything runs smoothly during the festive period are truly extraordinary.
“I am immensely grateful for their tireless efforts and dedication, which deserve to be fully recognised.
“The visit gave me real appreciation for the hard work and commitment of everyone involved.”
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.
Mr Goellnitz said: “It was great to have Ben 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.”
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 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.
