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Packages and Parcels with HWDC stamp

  • 24-05-2010 07:56PM
    #1
    rocksolid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭


    i buy a lot of stuff over the internet and every once in a while i get a package or parcel stamped with the following 'HWDC Revenue Recovered Sort To Destination', especially packages from thailand.

    Now after digging around on the net i found that HWDC stands for Heathrow World Distribution Centre and is the hub of the Royal Mail group's Foreign Mails Section.

    Two questions i have is

    1 - why does the packages go through Royal Mail when they are posted to Ireland??

    2 - it says revenue recovered but i dont have to pay anything when i get the packges, so who does, if anyone??

    I would appreciate if anyone could help me.....


Comments

  • #2
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    OK, I don't know. But a reasonable guess would be that it is cheaper for Thailand to send all its post to Europe to Heathrow to be sorted, rather than sort it there and have it delivered by different airlines etc to different countries. Heathrow charges part of the value of the stamp and the rest goes to the destination country's postal service. The revenue bit presumably means that they have done some sort of process to claim their bit of the postage. :D any better (ie informed) answers?


  • #3
    sunnysoutheast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭sunnysoutheast


    looksee wrote: »
    OK, I don't know. But a reasonable guess would be that it is cheaper for Thailand to send all its post to Europe to Heathrow to be sorted, rather than sort it there and have it delivered by different airlines etc to different countries. Heathrow charges part of the value of the stamp and the rest goes to the destination country's postal service. The revenue bit presumably means that they have done some sort of process to claim their bit of the postage. :D any better (ie informed) answers?

    I think this is pretty much it, all to do with distribution efficiency I suspect. I get a couple of UK-based magazines and one of those is sent via Zurich to Ireland (and I assume to the rest of Europe) and one used to be sent via Geneva but is now sent via Dublin. The irony is that a friend of mine who lives near Geneva gets one of the same magazines, this used to be sent to him via Geneva and is now sent to him in Geneva via Dublin!

    SSE


  • #4
    dudara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    Moved to Online Buying & Auctions

    OP - my guess is that the mailhandling is outsourced to the most cost-effective operator. A lot of mailshots come from Basel in Switzerland, even though the company may themselves be Irish - but obviously the outsourced operator is in Switzerland.

    dudara


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