Parcel basketball is one game some temporary workers have been playing.

An undercover journalist who signed on as a temporary worker for the Royal Mail has revealed that some of the others who have been brought in play a game called "parcel basketball".

Steven Morris, from the Guardian, took up one of the 30,000 positions created to help Royal Mail work through the backlog of letters and parcels which have built up as a result of regional and national postal strikes.

He began work at the Western Approach Distribution Park in Severn Beach, near Bristol, and found that a minority of staff dream up games to help them kill time, which may prompt those planning to send delicate parcels to use alternative parcel delivery services such as Parcel2Go.com.

"Parcel basketball is one of the games casual workers at Royal Mail's temporary sorting office at Severn Beach, near Bristol, are playing … the no look basketball game is pretty straightforward - you have to ping your parcel into its correct postcode without looking," Mr Morris said.

In other news, a second wave of national postal strikes have started today, with more planned for Friday and Saturday.

Written by Tom Sands


Article Added: 29/10/2009 18:41:57