Express packages to ground
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purplelife
Well-Known Member
Well ground usually starts little earlier than express so they probably have better chance to make service. Lol
handlemypackage
Banned
Express labels will usually have 98 or 99 in their coding that represent locally shipped P1 that doesn't need to go on a plane. These will get Ground labels and most Ground equipment is getting updated to highlight these time sensitive packages. Guess how that's going to work out.
HedleyLamarr
Well-Known Member
It won't work out well...for the costumer. And since when has this company actually cared about it's costumers?
Management said it was an engineering issue that all manual AB were routed to ground stations. This morning im getting them back here at express. How would ground make FO service? 
ground is more short handed than we are in my area and we were 28 short when they tried to start estar.
ground is more short handed than we are in my area and we were 28 short when they tried to start estar.
Star B
White Lightening
They should have said, anything that's not automation. We had billable stamps come to us -- completely missorted because some overpaid engineer thought it was a good idea to make a ground location the same three letters as our airport.
Needless to say, when MEMH saw "XYZYG" they just threw it in the container to XYZ, not looking at the ASTRA to see that it was supposed to go to AFW.
As I’ve learned over the past decade with this company, nothing makes sense. Our managers at Express are either on the road doing deliveries, or in interviews hiring everyone that comes through the door. Across town at the Ground station, contractor drivers are being sent home and voicing worry about layoffs. We’re giving them freight, when meanwhile we have 10 more couriers than trucks, with more starting every day. Nothing adds up.
That might be true, but if Fedex thinks they can run a UPS operation at half the pay to the sub contract drivers... Massive failure is coming. I see the writing on the wall here at express, im working my way out before peak. 15 years in makes it hard to start over, but time to jump ship.
Serf
Well-Known Member
Does that mean I can just do P1 and go home? Or does it mean I’m doing 180 stops for peasant wages?
yadig
Well-Known Member
In time
That's exactly what you're going to be doing and out there to 8PM if not later.
Now you'll be out there in a Fedex branded uniform....in a Fedex branded truck....delivering Fedex branded freight for half the wages and in most cases zero benefits.
So it would appear that many of you will see first hand the emerging realization that Ground contractors are in fact a barrier to the wages and benefits that Express drivers have achieved or are on their way to them.
Now rather than to ease the tensions by getting Ground driver wages up to Express level they're taking them down to contractor driver level. And in the aftermath it doesn't have to be a good delivery network because given the exceptional operating margins any old half assed thing's good enough.
And the amusing part of it all is hearing Ground contractors crying the blues about loaded trucks sitting in stations and nobody to drive them and about not making any money. If they think anybody's going to care about their problems.....they've been seriously misled .
Gone fishin
Well-Known Member
We just got a bunch of ground freight. The contractors have fled and the hub is collapsing. Welcome to express. Long peak
McFeely
Huge Member
I still can’t tell if we’re losing stuff to Ground or if we’re getting it back at my station. We’re still short-staffed (but getting better slowly) and most of us are doing 45-50 hours a week. Also getting mandated to work our days off about 2x a month.
Also not sure how well Ground is doing in my area. I don’t run into them too often.
Also not sure how well Ground is doing in my area. I don’t run into them too often.
