Peak season 2021 a dud?

[Brownslave688]

Our Tuesday volume came in about 30% below predicted volume.

I have argued that we will see a light peak simply because people are not spending right now.

People aren’t spending?

 

[Brownslave688]

According to the different financial news networks, this was the slowest Cyber Monday on record.

Absolutely no one said this was the slowest cyber Monday on record.

Cyber Monday hits sales high for 2021, with one in three shoppers buying online

It was the largest shopping day of 2021, according to Adobe. Amazon also reported a "record breaking" day.

www.google.com

 

[bottomups]

My old center is raffling off a couple Traeger grills, a snow blower and a Yeti cooler to any RPCD's who volunteer to work this Saturday.

Was nice to work in a local that couldn't force a 6th punch.

 

[Jkloc420]

My old center is raffling off a couple Traeger grills, a snow blower and a Yeti cooler to any RPCD's who volunteer to work this Saturday.
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Was nice to work in a local that couldn't force a 6th punch.

Is it a nice grill

 

[bottomups]

Is it a nice grill

True. But I would go out and buy one before working a Saturday.

 

[I have been lurking]

My old center is raffling off a couple Traeger grills, a snow blower and a Yeti cooler to any RPCD's who volunteer to work this Saturday.
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Was nice to work in a local that couldn't force a 6th punch.

Last year we had console raffles for 6 days. Nothing this year

 

[opie]

We had a raffle for a UPS branded bike.

 

[burrheadd]

Maybe for a go at the C.M.s wife

 

[Sixth Punch Sense]

Maybe for a go at the C.M.s wife

I'd rather work

 

[meritocracy]

Maybe UPS is less seasonal than it used to be. Ever since covid started people have talked about how it's always peak. So of course peak season is going to seem lighter than usual.

 

[Red Devil]

Maybe for a go at the C.M.s wife

And be Eskimo cousins with the center manager? No thanks

 

[Jackburton]

My old center is raffling off a couple Traeger grills, a snow blower and a Yeti cooler to any RPCD's who volunteer to work this Saturday.
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Was nice to work in a local that couldn't force a 6th punch.

Damn it, they give out chicken biscuits here

 

[DumbTruckDriver]

Breakfast tacos here.

 

[upser2020]

This is my second peak and so far volume seems on par with last yearr.

 

[sailfish]

Just wait. Generation Snowflake will order everything one week before Christmas and then will be shocked when their stuff doesn't arrive.

"But they guaranteed delivery by Christmas"??? "Waaaah"...

Which generation is that, Wally?

 

[Brownsocks]

Maybe UPS is less seasonal than it used to be. Ever since covid started people have talked about how it's always peak. So of course peak season is going to seem lighter than usual.

I think it has more to do with less online orders due to inflation and availability, PVDs, Seasonals, helpers, rentals, more routes in, and sixth punches. I could be wrong though.

 

[KearsargeCoop]

I think it has more to do with less online orders due to inflation and availability, PVDs, Seasonals, helpers, rentals, more routes in, and sixth punches. I could be wrong though.

I like your idea but would argue (non confrontationally) that inflation could cause more people to price hunt online and increase online ordering?

 

[Brownsocks]

I like your idea but would argue (non confrontationally) that inflation could cause more people to price hunt online and increase online ordering?

It could and I will be interested in the final #'s.
We have been so lightly dispatched that I honestly haven't asked about our daily volume this week. This is my easiest first week ever and I clocked out with guarantee everyday. Every driver seems to be thrilled, our wives not so much.

 

[badpal]

My old center is raffling off a couple Traeger grills, a snow blower and a Yeti cooler to any RPCD's who volunteer to work this Saturday.
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Was nice to work in a local that couldn't force a 6th punch.

We ain't getting nothing here . we all just forced to work saturdays for the next 3 weeks. Will just cash the checks and pray weather holds.

 

[quad decade guy]

Yesterday I saw a contractor pulling a UPS trailer to a CPU on my route. That should be my job not some illegal alien CDL mill graduate.

I started noticing guys/gals standing around our dispatch office that I didn't know....not in uniform. Overheard dispatcher tell one: "You can go home now". Huh? Yep. Contractor doing local CPU. I asked, he said: "Been here all day, running back and forth...".

There ya go.

I also noticed ragged old not brown nor black magnetic temporary badged rentals flying past inbound and parking trailers on pads and doors. Usual speeding, running stop signs, flip flops and pajamas....

Yep.
Contractors doing CPU.

UPS used to care about appearance and all that....

Folks....this is the future. Would not be surprised when our uniforms become just a t-shirt.