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BUSIEST PERIOD: Dan Jarvis stopped off to meet Royal Mail workers at their Pitt Street hub.
THE town’s army of busy postal workers received a visit from Barnsley North MP Dan Jarvis during their busiest period last Friday.
Christmas is Royal Mail’s most in-demand time, with around double the normal volume of letters and parcels processed.
Dan spoke to lead customer operations manager Terry Hoult 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, 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.
Barnsley’s Pitt Street delivery office hired 32 new recruits and 11 extra vehicles for the Christmas period to meet increased demand for deliveries in the local area.
Dan said: “It was great to visit the delivery office in Barnsley to say a big thank you to all our brilliant posties and Royal Mail staff who go above and beyond – particularly at this special time of year.
“Royal Mail had an impressive operation underway across the borough to sort and deliver post this festive season and, in true Yorkshire fashion, they grafted hard to get it sorted.”
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