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[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Most of the fedex employee I ever knew on my old pkg car route would asskiss with the customers and drink coffee with them....they would do that for a few months then flip them into using fedex ground shipping... as I was sweating my ass off on all of their pkgs and saying hi, bye like @Gumby.... I saw that happen multiple times...

...and that was back when we required signatures at all commercial stops.....we now have Commercial Inside Release, which is basically driver release for businesses.....our contact with our commercials has gone from brief to none...

 

[Coldworld]

On Brown Cafe?

Just doesn’t sound right

Omg!!! Omfg!!! This isn’t 1988 anymore!!! Geezzz!!you have been out of the game way too long EDM junkie!!

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Most of the fedex employee I ever knew on my old pkg car route would asskiss with the customers and drink coffee with them....they would do that for a few months then flip them into using fedex ground shipping... as I was sweating my ass off on all of their pkgs and saying hi, bye like @Gumby.... I saw that happen multiple times...

FedEx is gaining big market share on us.

 

[Coldworld]

...and that was back when we required signatures at all commercial stops.....we now have Commercial Inside Release, which is basically driver release for businesses.....our contact with our commercials has gone from brief to none...

That doesn’t make that much of a difference... I always had dock routes and the customers ALWAYS wanted to count the boxes and make sure everything wasn’t ripped up and thrashed... if I walked into a bank I STILL have to patiently wait for someone to come help me as I waitbat the end of the teller tables... this commercial release isn’t the end all for waiting....you aren’t going to be able to do that many more stops because of it....

 

[1989]

Why isn’t the company pushing these guys into taking lunches... they were harping on it here for years....

When I get compared with someone who doesn’t take a lunch ( just puts a lunch in the board) I ask to do a sparks comparison. They never do.

 

[Coldworld]

FedEx is gaining big market share on us.

UPS has ALWAYS DISCOUNTED OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CUSTOMERS AND THE POWER WE HAVE OVER THEM....they don’t use this power to their fullest potential and now they are paying for it...

 

[Coldworld]

When I get compared with someone who doesn’t take a lunch ( just puts a lunch in the board) I ask to do a sparks comparison. They never do.

Sparks... lol, showing your age bud...

 

[Coldworld]

When I get compared with someone who doesn’t take a lunch ( just puts a lunch in the board) I ask to do a sparks comparison. They never do.

They know... the local mgt know... they are all part of the dog and pony show...

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

UPS has ALWAYS DISCOUNTED OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CUSTOMERS AND THE POWER WE HAVE OVER THEM....they don’t use this power to their fullest potential and now they are paying for it...

We lost alot of business because we can't provide what the company promised

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

That doesn’t make that much of a difference... I always had dock routes and the customers ALWAYS wanted to count the boxes and make sure everything wasn’t ripped up and thrashed... if I walked into a bank I STILL have to patiently wait for someone to come help me as I waitbat the end of the teller tables... this commercial release isn’t the end all for waiting....you aren’t going to be able to do that many more stops because of it....

Wanna bet?

Dollar General used to be one of my biggest pain in the ass stops. After I brought their packages to their preferred delivery point, I would then have to walk up and down the aisles to try and find a manager. Now, I bring the packages to their preferred delivery point, tell the nearest employee how many I brought in and wish them a nice day. Much, much quicker----plus I don't have to deal with that bitch of a manager.

CIR is much quicker than interacting with the customer.

 

[Coldworld]

...and that was back when we required signatures at all commercial stops.....we now have Commercial Inside Release, which is basically driver release for businesses.....our contact with our commercials has gone from brief to none...

So from 5 seconds to 2... not a game changer

 

[1989]

Sparks... lol, showing your age bud...

What do they call it now. To me sparks is still new. I must be confusing the new supes.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

When I get compared with someone who doesn’t take a lunch ( just puts a lunch in the board) I ask to do a sparks comparison. They never do.

Mgt knows full well who takes their full lunch and those who don't or that may enter a lunch but works through it.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

So from 5 seconds to 2... not a game changer

I have heard estimates of an additional 10-20 stops per day on heavy commercial routes due to CIR.

 

[Coldworld]

We lost alot of business because we can't provide what the company promised

Yep... @Gumby, you know how many times we wanted to get the customer a trailer on their property but feeder didn’t want to do that, they had to “study” the cost benefit equation..... then fedex comes along and after a day and brings them a trailer.... omg!!! Talk about a total failure on mgts part.... or getting a pup to a customer was like an act of GOD...

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Yep... @Gumby, you know how many times we wanted to get the customer a trailer on their property but feeder didn’t want to do that, they had to “study” the cost benefit equation..... then fedex comes along and after a day and brings them a trailer.... omg!!! Talk about a total failure on mgts part.... or getting a pup to a customer was like an act of GOD...

We have lost more accounts over this.

 

[Coldworld]

That’s BS... it totally is... I would get on the 9.5 list in one second if that happen to me...

I have heard estimates of an additional 10-20 stops per day on heavy commercial routes due to CIR.

 

[Coldworld]

We have lost more accounts over this.

It’s embarrassing....absolutely!!

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Yep... @Gumby, you know how many times we wanted to get the customer a trailer on their property but feeder didn’t want to do that, they had to “study” the cost benefit equation..... then fedex comes along and after a day and brings them a trailer.... omg!!! Talk about a total failure on mgts part.... or getting a pup to a customer was like an act of GOD...

It's because this place is run like individual companies, not one company. Everyone is worried about numbers and not profit.


Seriously it makes me sick.

 

[1989]

That’s BS... it totally is... I would get on the 9.5 list in one second if that happen to me...

You will have to wait until you’ve been violated. Then go on the list. Then wait another week.