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[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

They don't?
Dave?

UPS does have OCA's (on call air pickups) but not nearly to the extent that you do nor with the strict time constraints that you have to deal with.

 

[Mr. 7]

Well,
I gotta tell ya' those on calls can REALLY screw you.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Well,
I gotta tell ya' those on calls can REALLY screw you.

If I get 3 in a day that is a lot. For the most part they all have 1700 or later commits and I normally pick them up in trace.

 

[overflowed]

If I get 3 in a day that is a lot. For the most part they all have 1700 or later commits and I normally pick them up in trace.

At least that is somewhat sensible. I had a oncall the other day with a 1200 close don't get to that town till about 1500.
Think it could be a sales thing?"We do any oncall you want anytime, anyhow, even if it doesn't make sense. Ups won't."
No, probably not. Incompetence is a better culprit. who knows

 

[Mr. 7]

I typically get more on-calls than my reg. pups. I start out with about 12 regs. and typically will get about 12 on-calls. All over the city I cover and close times can be 4:00.

 

[TUT]

Do a search on the rise of Wall Street... Started in 85.

 

[MrFedEx]

If I get 3 in a day that is a lot. For the most part they all have 1700 or later commits and I normally pick them up in trace.

Wow...3 oncalls. How do you do it?

 

[Cactus]

UPS doesn't have on-calls like we do either, so you don't do half the juggling an Express courier.

Are their pickups generated to the next day?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

If I get 3 in a day that is a lot. For the most part they all have 1700 or later commits and I normally pick them up in trace.

Wow...3 oncalls. How do you do it?[/QUOTE)

One at a time in trace.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

UPS doesn't have on-calls like we do either, so you don't do half the juggling an Express courier.

Are their pickups generated to the next day?

No...we have same day on call pickups.

 

[whenIgetthere]

Wow...3 oncalls. How do you do it?

I covered one of our 4x10's pick ups a few weeks ago, he has 25 regulars, 5 drop boxes and I had 25 on calls that night. He is usually over 30 on calls per night, I got the easy night.

 

[Rhoderunner]

Third Party oncalls the worse !!! Early close and package almost always sitting on the door step WTF

 

[Amigonnamakeit]

Third Party oncalls the worse !!! Early close and package almost always sitting on the door step WTF

That's if there is even a package. Most of the time I see the deer in headlight look because they have no clue about a package!

 

[hypo hanna]

And those are the ones you actually see. If your dispatcher has the time, (few do), she calls as many as she can and deletes them when the sender doesn't have a pkg. Many times it has a bad phone number or you get no answer and they have to send you there anyway. Just another boneheaded idea by management. If they would look at these things like operations managers and not marketing managers, maybe this company wouldn't be headed for the scrap heap.