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Why do you have 3 cameras pointing at a bin?
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People keep stealing parcels from it
So he can nail the postie to the wall when he messes up.
My postbod has a finger that no matter how many times they attempt it, it will never push the video doorbell button that seems like an invisible force makes the hand move off to the left and becomes a loud bang bang from the knuckles on the door.
I should one day ask and also inform that the video doorbell starts recording as soon as they enter the garden
Parcelforce on the other hand know how to press it?
I should one day ask and also inform that the video doorbell starts recording as soon as they enter the garden
Parcelforce on the other hand know how to press it?
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Anyway, my rant was answered on posts #5 & #6 with links.
Nobody has explained the AI bit of picking a parcel up in a bin and how the AI distinguishes between a cardboard/can bin compared to a Parcel Safe bin
Our AI is picking up small details that indicate an energy meter might be dangerous or tampered with.
It can also pick up signs that a house has small children or elderly people living there.
It's pretty impressive how quickly it's improving its accuracy. I'd imagine spotting the various types of wheelie bin used in the Uk is fairly trivial.
I was in ALDI
First world problems.
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My words were "I also have 3x CCTV cameras covering it" which is true.
Three cameras will see anybody trying to nick out of it and one on top of the garage does point at it.
Would you like a picture?
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but how does the Royal Mail know that parcel has been put in a wheelie bin unless they put special sensors/chips on the packaging?
I still have the packaging, I could rip it apart to see if Royal Mail are putting sensors on them.
And once inside a dark bin how does it know it's not a Parcel Safe box?
Will it have laser scanners and then go "Oh dear there is a tin of tomato soup in here, I'm reprimanding the Postie"
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Of the bin? no not really, but thanks.
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Yes they 'cover' the bin.
Garage camera points at it.
Doorbell can see somebody approach it.
Front camera can see somebody standing by it.
I don't know what's hard to understand.
Those three cameras also 'cover' my drive and car.
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, sorry if you failed to see that.but how does the Royal Mail know that parcel has been put in a wheelie bin unless they put special sensors/chips on the packaging?
I still have the packaging, I could rip it apart to see if Royal Mail are putting sensors on them.
And once inside a dark bin how does it know it's not a Parcel Safe box?
Will it have laser scanners and then go "Oh dear there is a tin of tomato soup in here, I'm reprimanding the Postie"
What? I literally replied above saying some posties have body cams and then how our company are using body cam footage and AI..it could well be the case Royal Mail are doing something similar to check compliance to procedures.
I like your fence - I have the exact same panels in the same colour.Same here but mine is behind a locked gate so no council worker is going to take the bin away.
It's worked with all of them for well over 5 years except this idiot today.
So the parcel was put in between the bin and the fence
I also have 3x CCTV cameras covering it.
Best thing I ever fittedl;.
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I like your fence - I have the exact same panels in the same colour.
Best thing I ever fittedl;.
Mrs Sexy said a few months ago "Don't forget you've got to paint the fences this year" and I thought "Not at my age and disabilities"
I had to buy 42 panels altogether but well worth it.
Ex-RM myself, but can't confirm the AI bit as I left two years ago and never saw that.
Blue bins, even if described as a "safe place" are a no-no. Perfect example is that I used a blue bin for a fairly regular parcel receiver and everything was normally OK, until I blue binned their parcel, not knowing they were on holiday for 2 weeks, neighbour put their blue bin out for them for recycling along with their item.
Got a right bollocking for it, and the sender had to make a claim against RM which RM were never happy about etc, so they never got a parcel left for them again as it's never worth the hassle and/or losing your job over.
Now you could argue, "but I never put my bin out", or "it's locked behind a gate" - it's just a blanket policy so that if the usual RM staff member isn't on that duty due to rest day, sickness or covering other duties then there's no temptation by the covering staff member to blue bin a parcel in the off chance that the item in the bin does get taken, moved, stolen even with cameras. Plus, if there's 2,000 delivery points on a duty, you can't remember everyone's preferences, although the PDA may offer those details now for scannable items.
We even had a Work Time Learning memo of some little scrotes using modified litter pickers to reach into bins to grab items from the bottom, so even with cameras, fences etc it's not a safe place. Lockable parcel boxes and or neighbours you trust were always the better option, or a re-delivery when you're going to be in.
Blue bins, even if described as a "safe place" are a no-no. Perfect example is that I used a blue bin for a fairly regular parcel receiver and everything was normally OK, until I blue binned their parcel, not knowing they were on holiday for 2 weeks, neighbour put their blue bin out for them for recycling along with their item.
Got a right bollocking for it, and the sender had to make a claim against RM which RM were never happy about etc, so they never got a parcel left for them again as it's never worth the hassle and/or losing your job over.Now you could argue, "but I never put my bin out", or "it's locked behind a gate" - it's just a blanket policy so that if the usual RM staff member isn't on that duty due to rest day, sickness or covering other duties then there's no temptation by the covering staff member to blue bin a parcel in the off chance that the item in the bin does get taken, moved, stolen even with cameras. Plus, if there's 2,000 delivery points on a duty, you can't remember everyone's preferences, although the PDA may offer those details now for scannable items.
We even had a Work Time Learning memo of some little scrotes using modified litter pickers to reach into bins to grab items from the bottom, so even with cameras, fences etc it's not a safe place. Lockable parcel boxes and or neighbours you trust were always the better option, or a re-delivery when you're going to be in.
Delivery the letter post should be priority, even when it been snowing.
RM has been classified as a parcel company for a few years now and there's no profit in letters, parcels are the focus even when short staffed. Plus, with the new introduction of selective days of delivery for 1st/2nd class mail, expect it to potentially take longer for the letter post to arrive.
I spoke to an ex-colleague who trains staff in my old office and he said of the last three new entrants, one quit after a day, another quit after 3 days, but never told anyone and the third is just about coping. There's been about 30 staff come & go since I left just over 2 years ago in my old office.... cuts, cuts, cuts for profit, profit, profit and with the sale to Daniel Křetínský completed earlier this year, expect it to happen even more.
Don't blame the frontline workers, they have to follow the rules set out (generally) by people who are only after profit, promotion, perks and have never done the job aka "don't have a ******* clue". I don't miss Christmas time & winter as a Postie.
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