Does the union know how much volume is going to the post office???

[barnyard]

The routes that I covered the last couple of days all had single package surepost stops. The packages were small enough that they had to have been proximity stops. If they were proximity stops, they were all very well done, as I delivered all them when parked to deliver another stop (either next door or across the street.)

Yesterday, I had 4 or 5 for sure.

 

[hyena]

FedEx Smartpost is delivered directly to Post Office processing centers by a feeder. FedEx employees do not handle the packages at any point during that process.

Yes, it is frustrating to watch the increasing piles of packages and bags of what many of you feel should be our work, but the reality is that if SurePost were eliminated we would get very little, if any, of that volume.

There were improvements made to the program in the last contract, to include proximity deliveries and enforcement of size/weight restrictions, which are supposed to divert packages back to us for final delivery.

After reading that horse s* I'll never tell @IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U to stfu again , I'll reserve it for you

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

After reading that horse s* I'll never tell @IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U to stfu again , I'll reserve it for you

Thanks....I think

 

[hyena]

Thanks....I think

D*

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

D*

P*

 

[hyena]

P*

Tldr

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Tldr

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[hyena]

That was helpful













Not

Glad to be of assistance

 

[Ms.PacMan]

FedEx Smartpost is delivered directly to Post Office processing centers by a feeder. FedEx employees do not handle the packages at any point during that process.

Wrong! The FedEx drivers here still deliver smart post to the PO.

 

[35years]

Lets see...
In one Post Office bag I saw:
-2 packages for the same address; Happened to be a commercial address.
-3 residential stops; two houses next to each other and one directly across. I would have parked and walked all 3 at once.

The kicker is that these are the gravy packages. Small and light. I would gladly give all my 50+ lb boxes to the P.O., but I like my gravy.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Wrong! The FedEx drivers here still deliver smart post to the PO.

That must have been a recent change as we were told that SmartPost goes directly from the shipper to the PO.

 

[Bottom rung]

Our local doesn't care about surepost. Only 9.5 grievances.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

That must have been a recent change as we were told that SmartPost goes directly from the shipper to the PO.

You are correct.

 

[Ms.PacMan]

That must have been a recent change as we were told that SmartPost goes directly from the shipper to the PO.

This doesn't make any sense. The whole point of Smart/Sure post is to move freight to the right zip code within a system that handles freight.

If the shippers are moving freight to the PO then why even involve FedEx?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

This doesn't make any sense. The whole point of Smart/Sure post is to move freight to the right zip code within a system that handles freight.

If the shippers are moving freight to the PO then why even involve FedEx?

The freight is picked up by a FedEx ground feeder and brought directly brought to a PO processing center rather than a hub to then be delivered to the local PO branches.

 

[wide load]

Well, we are losing delivery jobs for sure.

But, if we don't offer sure post, and they move the volume to the post office or fed ex smart post, we lose more jobs.

Holy crap! You must have taken your meds today!

 

[Lead Belly]

Holy crap! You must have taken your meds today!

Yea his answer threw me for a loop too.

 

[brownmonster]

Lets see...
In one Post Office bag I saw:
-2 packages for the same address; Happened to be a commercial address.
-3 residential stops; two houses next to each other and one directly across. I would have parked and walked all 3 at once.

The kicker is that these are the gravy packages. Small and light. I would gladly give all my 50+ lb boxes to the P.O., but I like my gravy.

Why do you know what's in the bag?

 

[35years]

Why do you know what's in the bag?

They (USPS) dumped it out in front of me.
This has happened many times. Almost always see packages that should never be given to the USPS.

 

[Coldworld]

Lets see...
In one Post Office bag I saw:
-2 packages for the same address; Happened to be a commercial address.
-3 residential stops; two houses next to each other and one directly across. I would have parked and walked all 3 at once.

The kicker is that these are the gravy packages. Small and light. I would gladly give all my 50+ lb boxes to the P.O., but I like my gravy.

I have also seen business stops going to the po... And those are just the single pkgs that I was able to look at.. Who knows how many business stops are in the bags.... I also have seen many stops going to the po only a few houses away from ground stops... And NO single surepost stops.... Yep, the updated surepost language is a joke...