Extended Area routes to run only 3 days per week?

[10:30 resi]

(1) EC
(2) Damaged
(3) NSN
(4) just completely roll it, and say, for example, No Adult for a signature package,
(5) building Needs Security Access,
(6) Need Apt or Need Ste when the Apt or Ste number is on the label, but not on the PAL label (and thus not in the DIAD), and
(7) No such street when the street is on Apple Maps and Google Maps.

(1) Maybe there was a dog on the yard
(2) Maybe something was leaking on the package earlier and has dried out by the time you got it
(3) Maybe the consignee hasn't made their house number clearly visible from the street
(4) Maybe an adult wasn't home and the kid was dumb enough to open the door. (Would you really ask a 9 year old for their signature?)
(5) Maybe you need a code to access the building
(6) Okay but why are you taking it personally?
(7) Maybe someone stole the street sign

 

[bumped]

I would have hoped to be in a work group with less weak links in it.

This is a different UPS. You're a dinosaur. You care more than they (UPS) do. Free yourself from the stress. If UPS can break your route twice a week your day is probably pretty stress free if you allow it to be. If I had only a 3 day a week schedule from January through October I probably wouldn't retire until 65.

 

[Red Devil]

Update: I completely got over COVID & my sore lower back.

I worked as a PM clerk (+ a Sat. car wash) for 2 weeks, and *there is no way that I would ever clerk again* (either AM or PM) for one main reason:

(1) At least 10% of the drivers roll a few stops each, & this falls on the clerk. I always had a full list of tasks to fill the 8 hours, so I am not involving myself AT ALL with drivers who are rolling stops. This is unconscionable, & I am going back to my route away from these slackers!

When I say “roll stops”, the standard I am using is that had I been on the route, the packages would have been delivered, rather than brought back to the building which creates more work for clerks, preloaders, drivers the next day, & management.

Not the clerk’s job to judge if the drivers are cutting corners or not. That falls on the supes. But glad you are back in action. Maybe think about getting on the 9.5 list. 9 hour days are a lot better than 12 hour days for quality of life in my opinion.

 

[rp3]

Hi all. So my bid route is way out in the country & mountains. My daily routine is: I do EAMs for about 13 miles, then about 73-78 stops on my route for another 165 miles. My average day is just over 11.0 paid, and my overallowed averages about 1.0 hour over.

Corporate has said that they are only going to run my route Tues., Thurs. & Fri., presumably because UPS is paying about $550 in labor plus $100 in gas to deliver 1-2 EAMs and then the 90-145 pkgs that might come in for my route that day.

We just started this in southeast Colorado small center. I was running 165-180 miles a day with about a 100 stops a day. We switched to mon-wed- Fri I do my usual route. tue- Thu I run 200-220 miles with with 65-70 stops so I run more miles all together but they don't get it!

 

[KearsargeCoop]

We just started this in southeast Colorado small center. I was running 165-180 miles a day with about a 100 stops a day. We switched to mon-wed- Fri I do my usual route. tue- Thu I run 200-220 miles with with 65-70 stops so I run more miles all together but they don't get it!

You're right, they don't get it!

 

[UPSmechanicinblue]

We just started this in southeast Colorado small center. I was running 165-180 miles a day with about a 100 stops a day. We switched to mon-wed- Fri I do my usual route. tue- Thu I run 200-220 miles with with 65-70 stops so I run more miles all together but they don't get it!

do you know if there is much change in the amount of drivers on road daily? you or any other centers on this

 

[FromOffTheStreets]

We're running around 35-40 routes these days. Probably cut 5 or 6 routes out since rural deferment.
We also lost 8 guys this year to retirement/ firings. They've only replaced that with 2 new drivers.