VIDEO – With 300,000 packages per day, it’s the Christmas rush at the Colissimo platform in Rennes-Le Rheu

Christmas Eve is fast approaching. And so that the gifts are placed on time at the foot of the tree, the La Poste platform is ramping up at its Rheu site, near Rennes.

This is what we call here “peak période”. Between November and December, the teams must sort 9 million packages ordered on the internet and delivered by Colissimo, with tips 300,000 per day currently, which represents double the normal activity. All these packages are intended for Brittany, Loire-Atlantique and Mayenne.

And the building itself is impressive. He does 25.000 m2 on a plot of almost 7 hectares. In the center, the high-speed packet sorter stands out. She makes morea kilometer long. With his 2,000 traysshe is able to sort up to 12,000 packages per hour.

The site usually employs 220 agents. A hundred seasonal workers were recruited as reinforcements for this period.

All this is managed by a supervision team which works 22 hours a day, 6 days a week. It is a control tower with giant screens which indicate in real time the flow of goods and the parking of trucks at the 79 dock gates. . Every day, there are nearly 440 trucks who arrive and leave the platform.