Handle Missed Collections and Carrier No-Shows
- How-to
- Dispatch
- Who can do this: Admin, Warehouse Manager, Floor Supervisor, Warehouse Operative
- Checked on 28 October 2026
Take parcels that missed their collection back out of the cage onto Held Parcels, and record a Carrier No-Show when the carrier doesn't come.
In short
After a Close-Out, take each Missed Collection's parcels out of the cage onto Held Parcels. They go on the next collection. If the carrier doesn't come, a Floor Supervisor selects Carrier didn't come instead.
Before you start
You need to be a Warehouse Operative, a Floor Supervisor, a Warehouse Manager or an Admin to take parcels out. Recording a Carrier No-Show is for a Floor Supervisor or above.
Neither cancels a label. The parcels keep their labels for the next collection.
Steps
Take out the parcels that missed
An order is a Missed Collection when it wasn't fully loaded, or was held, at the Close-Out.
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Go to Load and close out and choose the collection you closed out. Missed Collections lists each order, Why it missed and when it Goes on.
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Under Take back out of the cage, find the parcels listed. Select Take parcels out.
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Scan each listed parcel as you take it out of the cage:
Parcel ORD-00000011-1 taken back out
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Put it on the Held Parcels shelf with its label. Stockist names the collection it goes in, such as Royal Mail 17:30 on Thursday.
When that collection's cage is out, load the parcels from Held Parcels into it as usual: see Load the cage.
Record a Carrier No-Show
Use this when the carrier isn't coming for a collection today.
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Floor Supervisor or above: go to Load and close out and choose the collection.
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Select Carrier didn't come.
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Type Why isn't the carrier coming?, such as "Royal Mail rang, no driver today".
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Select Record the no-show:
Carrier No-Show recorded
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Leave the loaded parcels in the cage. They go out at the next collection's Close-Out.
A no-show can only be recorded on the collection's own day. See Carrier No-Show.
What happens next
Nothing ships at a no-show, and the collection then shows as closed out. Every Shipment for it waits for the next collection.
The orders keep their Must-Ship-By. An order shipped at a later collection than promised isn't On Time, and its Order Timeline says it is late.
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