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Parcels Traffic
DRESS reports alleging delays of up I to three weeks in deliveries of parcels from King's Cross Station, London, were much exaggerated, said a BR spokesman when I checked the position on Tuesday.
Certainly, thousands of parcels were piled high on trolleys on platform 1 at King's Cross, but goods for delivery in the City and NI area, for which the station is responsible, should be delivered within a few days.
Parcels operators are familiar with the rapid build up of traffic in the autumn, and if northern terminals such as We and Edinburgh case their :ion by forwarding London area iments to King's Cross. the situamid become difficult.
nformant, a supervisor with a lifeexperience at King's Cross, said seen much worse congestion many before. Staff problems were an assment. he told me. as although ablishment at any one time might to strength. so much of the staff 7aw " that supervision was a probVacation students, white and :rd. helped to bring numbers to the :d figure: some I was told. arc good. but others arc almost a y, with a 'don't care, irresponsible e ". Of perhaps 100 men set on few survive to the autumn.
as apparent that a fair proportion new-found parcels traffic was not ilarly welcome to the staff con . 1 saw carpet rolls. lino rolls.
paper. glass aquaria and bicycles up with cartonecl and crated traffic. le sorting facilities seemed to conl' nothing more scientific than a trolleys on a wide platform. aided commercial advertising has ed increased parcels traffic to the ys, but they will not retain it for in my judgment. unless they solve if turnover problem and also proteir staff with more adequate tools a difficult job.
JOHN DARKER