Busiest day of the year at Royal Mail Swindon depot

Here's where Christmas is sorted on a giant scale - a massive postal centre dealing with half a million parcels a day. The giant temporary facility has been set up to handle the avalanche of online shopping over the festive period. More than 300 seasonal staff have been taken on to run the sorting centre in Swindon, Wilts - one of eight set up by the Royal Mail around Britain. It will operate for five weeks and will be at its busiest on December 11th when it will process around 500,000 items.