Post Office has a new 'Mate'
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NEW mechanised parcel st service is being introted by the Post Office at a st of £1.6m.
An order worth £200,000 .s already been placed with erriworth (Engineering) Ltd, Erith, Kent, for 133 light2ight single-axle skeletal 311ers. The trailers are 9m ag overall and will be mainly ed for carrying 9m contains, although they can carry e 6.1m international stanrd containers.
The chassis has 17.7cm (7in) ep side-members braced th latticework to a depth of .1cm (15in).
The service is based on a stem of wheeled tote bins lich the Post Office has ibbed "Mates "—short for ail All-purpose Trailer Equipant. It will operate between rcel concentration centres rategically located through the UK.
These centres will be resinsible for grouping all outling parcels and sorting and spatching them by the lickest and most economical eans. Parcels destined for aces within their area will bagged or containerised, mg with those arriving from her centres, which those for ,stinations further afield will be sorted into Mate rollpallets.
The pallets will then be loaded into trailer-borne containers in groups of five, each group being secured by a transverse shoring bar. Fifteen Mates can be carried in a 9m (30ft) container and 10 in a 6.1m (20ft) boy.