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Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
1:20 – Update on AirTags
2:12 – DHL make first contact
4:17 – Q&A with DHL
10:28 – Tour of DHL facility
22:42 – YouTubers sending AirTags to North Korea
24:09 – Investigating Royal Mail and PostNL
26:09 – Conversation with Royal Mail and PostNL
30:05 – Sending 3 AirTags to North Korea via Royal Mail
31:14 – Parcel and Post Expo & Universal Postal Union
36:00 – Parcel Sorting Simulation
39:01 – Final thoughts
40:42 – Response from DHL
Research:
SNBC Article: https://www.snbc.com.cn/news/577.html
IPC Article on Royal Mail Automation: http://bit.ly/3YrKxLL
PostNL Sorting Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu0Al53Lx-A
Royal Mail Sorting Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbtYG3J3MTQ
Royal Mail Parcel Volumes: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1006816/royal-mail-volume-of-parcels-and-letters-delivered-uk/
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Well done to both you and DHL. I hope you do a same investigation with UPS, Fedex and even the local German mail.
Speaking of climate and shipping distances. Australia Post. A few years ago Australia Post would send my packages from Melbourne direct to Finley by road. this is a trip of 289 km. But then something changed they now send packages from Melbourne to Sydney to Albury to Jerilderie and then down to Finley. This is a trip in straight lines of 1,328 km. It adds two extra days onto the shipping time of packages from Melbourne to me. And because it's making all of these extra kilometres by plane I can imagine it's worse for the environment.
What they could do is what we used to do in the old days in finance. You double key everything. So if one parcel is keyed by two separate people and the keys don't match it could be automatically routed to a third person for checking. We used to do this in finance where we would key everything twice and then run a comparison between the two keyed files and any errors could be fixed before the batch was run and the information updated.
I don't know how to feel about this
I hope these companies do pay attention to your videos, and consider them valuable contributions to their bottom line. They’re getting a fairly good audit for free, and would be foolish not to capitalize on your work.
awesome video bro👍
To be honest. You were testing an edge case. I can't imagine many packages being sent to North Korea. Given that you were bound to run into issues along the way, DHL eventually did the right thing.
yaaaay
Automation not worth investment? Do they have free labour? Even Post of Russia, which sucks and worst post on the entire planet automated sorting decades ago.
Half of the parcels I order and are shipped with DHL end up in Slovakia instead of Slovenia. Not kidding, even stuff from amazon.
Thx for the update. I saw a video from Scot about that topic some months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxCha4Kez9c – kudos to DHL for being so open. Great PR!
Now for the joke:
Of course, this is the EU, if this was the USA…
Nah, exactly nothing would happen if this was the USA. You just lost your airtag.
Fake scandal
12:27 👀 Ngl I’m kinda jealous how good those DHL safety shoes look
parcel 1, lost parcel 2 lost, parcel 3 returned to sender due to unable to deliver.. i live about 45 mins from the 'beaten track' that driver didnt want the journey imo.. said he tried to deliver and uploaded a picture of 'our' house.. turned out to be a house in the town 45 mins away found with google earth after many hours of searching … just avoid dhl/tnt
Now I see why my DHL service is so slow. On the list we are not even on the list.
not usa company 🙂 eu way way much friendlier 🙂
Simple: You can't upgrade sorting centers, only build new ones! that's why it take a long time before all sorting centers have the newest technology
Believe me if they could save money the would do it, but you can't just close an existing sorting center that did not yet returned the investment. Also it would really bad for the environment.
I have the feeling you have clearly a quite simple view on things. For example 1% is not that bad and the environment cost isn't that big anyway. Those other numbers are just marketing numbers. They are trying to sell their products. Those planes fly anyway, and they are never loaded to 100% There are lot of other things that have a much bigger impact. Did you know that the biggest environmental impact comes from not understanding complex systems!!
There has to be a better way to sort packages then a manual process.
How I would automate this is to have someone manually turn the package to face the address upward for a computer to scan the barcode or read the address and sort automatically.
Boom. There’s your free billion dollar fix! 😅
its refreshing to see DHL respond like this. Kinda makes you want to trust them more. I know I now do.
41 minutes for showing that DHL has the same substandard customer service as every other large company, with "limited information". But interesting nonetheless.
The captions said "I sent 3 attacks to North Korea" LOL
Parcel sorting sounds like the perfect job for ChatGPT
DHL saying it's not worth automating is a very German thing to say, digitalization is not a thing
We also have a dhl sorting center nearby where i once got a tour but i dont remember that the destinationthing wasnt automatic… weird
Omg finally you remembered your password
Come to the UK and bring down Evri. They are a fraudulent delivery service 100%.
I think the rate of error is around 3%. Why? 8% and 10% is way too much and you know that info from sellers of automated systems 🙂
To me it's not an ecological problem, but it's a inhuman job and even the 3% rate of error is high.
Don't forget the informations about the error rates came from automatic sorting machine manufacturers, so they are probably telling you higher numbers than the real ones, because they want to sell their machines…
I trust DHL over any other shipping service. But usually the others are so much cheaper that it's worth taking a risk.
If i spit in your mcdonalds burger, mcdonalds is not the one to blame. Parcel delivery has lots of variables and many things can go wrong
Cool video. I have waited for this to come out. Maybe I m going to send one airtage to Germany next year. I wanted to send it to North Korea but my local post office does not ship to North Korea.
Royal Mail is a typical British business. Hide behind security, data protection and generally don't give a shit.
Not being able to ship to north Korea ist Not a Problem. But everything else ist interesting
I will say, DHL was always the most comical carrier to watch the tracking on. My packages are routinely sent in the opposite direction, sometimes up to 3 states away, before they make their way back.
You'd think with GPT3 artificial intelligence that they'd be able to teach a computer to read the addresses. Computers can already read bad handwriting better than humans. AI could handle 99.99% of all parcel addresses and anything that it couldn't read could be sent out for manual checking.
There's little point asking Royal Mail questions, they are just useless. You barely get a reply when a tracked parcel goes missing.
If Royal Mail can't disclose a sorting error rate due to "security reasons", then I guess on a real security question they would answer that they can't respond because it would endanger the life of his highness King Charles.
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I am a patreon of an artist (based in the USA) who sends out stickers every month. One time my package was missent to BERMUDA. I am from BULGARIA. It was really funny and I still keep the package. If it was something urgent though I'd be really annoyed