Royal Mail has successfully reached its target of 90% automation across its parcel operations. The milestone is a significant achievement, marking a major step forward in efficiency and improved service. It forms part of the business’s wider modernisation strategy, which has seen substantial changes across Royal Mail. The company beat the target this month following years of investment, which saw: • The opening of two state-of-the-art, automated parcel hubs in Warrington and Daventry which can process up to 1.5 million parcels a day combined. • The addition of 10 specially designed large parcel conveyors at mail centres across the country, to manage bigger parcels. • Three new high-speed Parcel Sortation Machines added to mail centres in Leeds, Plymouth and Exeter, each one increasing processing by 21,000 parcels per hour. (....)