No more?

[john chesney]

Saturday ground.



Hearing that lots of centers are scrapping the operation.

Ya because it sounds like after the new contract part timers will be delivering Saturday and Sunday

Saturday ground.



Hearing that lots of centers are scrapping the operation.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Nice, I'm jealous

I'm a good boy
Scout

 

[john chesney]

I'll sit out the whole month of August
Already have another job lined up

I’ll be retired but the first one on the strike line if it comes to it

 

[upsbeernut]

I’ll be retired but the first one on the stile line if it comes to it

I'm setting mine up this month just in case they friend us with the pension

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I’ll be retired but the first one on the stile line if it comes to it

Lucky Bastard

 

[upsbeernut]

Lucky Bastard

Its coming, service is at a long time low cause the volume that comes in makes up for it.

 

[Gloominati]

I've heard rumors of the company renegotiating rates for Saturday ground.
The impetus for this? Hell, I thought they were all in on making this work. Who the knows anymore.

 

[brownmonster]

6 days a week for the regular driver is what they want . 70 hours

They want the guy working too much overtime to cave in to these weekend drivers.

 

[opie]

When (not if) they make Saturday a regular delivery day it won't be a money maker unless UPS can get away with paying drivers less and/or limiting areas that get delivered.

Pretty much all the Saturday drivers are in progression. So they are making $18.75 to $25. I think the problem is that there's a lot of overhead costs for Saturday ground operations. Need to have a pre-load, a twilight shift, car washers, feeders, clerks, mechanics and maintenance. All these extra security, supervisors and flex-supervisors etc....When it was just a Saturday Air operation. It was basically just one supervisor, and the air drivers and nobody else lol.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

Saturday ground isn't going anywhere. Amazon is shifting volume back to us, specifically Saturday delivery volume.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Saturday ground isn't going anywhere. Amazon is shifting volume back to us, specifically Saturday delivery volume.

Let's see how they feel after a strike authorization.

 

[Babagounj]

The whole preload changed to tue - sat they wont be happy if they still have to keep this schedule.

For my first twenty years at UPS that was how things worked. Having Mondays off was great for doing chores , except when Monday was a holiday.

 

[Babagounj]

Its just like Saturday air but on crack, meth, ecstasy, weed, and adrenaline. They have been doing Saturday air for decades now. They didn't start it out everywhere and it was never a well oiled machine, but they had to have it to compete. Saturday ground isn't going anywhere, it will just keep getting retooled by the boys and girls in the cubicles.

I was doing Sat Air before it was officially started.
They had me deliver Internationals that arrived in the Monday sort , preload used to run Tues- Sat.
It was fun. Just two guys , then 3, had to cover the entire region.

 

[thisjobaintforeverybody]

Saturday ground isn't going anywhere. Amazon is shifting volume back to us, specifically Saturday delivery volume.

Why are they scaling back then?

 

[Babagounj]

Strikes coming

Best put in your vacation time for when the strike starts. I did it in 1997 and just to be safe ever year a contract was up.
I enjoyed it when the 1997 strike was over and they called me to come back . I told them that I wasn't coming in for another week.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Best put in your vacation time for when the strike starts. I did it in 1997 and just to be safe ever year a contract was up.
I enjoyed it when the 1997 strike was over and they called me to come back . I told them that I wasn't coming in for another week.

Who knows when the Strike, if it happens is actually going to start.??

 

[Babagounj]

Pretty much all the Saturday drivers are in progression. So they are making $18.75 to $25. I think the problem is that there's a lot of overhead costs for Saturday ground operations. Need to have a pre-load, a twilight shift, car washers, feeders, clerks, mechanics and maintenance. All these extra security, supervisors and flex-supervisors etc....When it was just a Saturday Air operation. It was basically just one supervisor, and the air drivers and nobody else lol.

For all the years I did Sat Air , it was a clerk or two , one Sup and one mechanic on duty. In the beginning they had a different sup work @ week for training , but some of those sups never showed up. So I got the detail.

 

[navigator]

I saw are driver still out at 6pm last night (Sat)

 

[upsbeernut]

I saw are driver still out at 6pm last night (Sat)

Saturday delivery is not very organized combining areas never works very well

 

[upsbeernut]

Pretty much all the Saturday drivers are in progression. So they are making $18.75 to $25. I think the problem is that there's a lot of overhead costs for Saturday ground operations. Need to have a pre-load, a twilight shift, car washers, feeders, clerks, mechanics and maintenance. All these extra security, supervisors and flex-supervisors etc....When it was just a Saturday Air operation. It was basically just one supervisor, and the air drivers and nobody else lol.

Its a cluster friend