Peak season 2021 a dud?

[KearsargeCoop]

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.

Not sure anything could be worse than these hideous polos

 

[UPSER1987]

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.

Appearance flexibility is what many drivers wished for. You look unprofessional…so you get treated unprofessionally. Be careful what you wish for. Shrugs shoulders.

 

[Poop Head]

Would not be surprised when our uniforms become just a t-shirt.

I mean, the new polos are basically that.

 

[Poop Head]

Appearance flexibility is what many drivers wished for. You look unprofessional…so you get treated unprofessionally. Be careful what you wish for. Shrugs shoulders.

Everyone wants to beable to look like the fedex guys, but theyre gonna cry like little babies when they start paying us like the fedex guys.

 

[eats packages]

Everyone wants to beable to look like the fedex guys, but theyre gonna cry like little babies when they start paying us like the fedex guys.

We have an unlimited amount of twinhills uniforms as long as you can fit into a size 4xl.

 

[specter208]

We had lots of PVDs. I think we started ussing them sooner than last year. PT cover drivers only barely started getting scheduled to drive this week.

 

[watdaflock?]

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.

I've never had so much OT in the past 9 years.

 

[KearsargeCoop]

I've never had so much OT in the past 9 years.

Rural or metro?

 

[DVIR]

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’ve been with ups for 3 years. 2 years as a driver with my own route. For peak My stops have been cut in half. My bulk pickups covered and i get a helper. The rest of the year is a disaster and i work until 11:00 but the last 2 years peak has been way easier than the rest of the year. It’s almost as if peak is now january-november with a one month relief break

 

[I have been lurking]

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.

7 hours PT =8 hours FT

 

[PT Car Washer]

7 hours PT =8 hours FT

5 hours work PT equals 8 hrs work FT.

 

[burrheadd]

And be Eskimo cousins with the center manager? No thanks

You got to wash it good before

 

[burrheadd]

We have an unlimited amount of twinhills uniforms as long as you can fit into a size 4xl.

Don’t tell the feeder crew about them there will be a stampede not seen since the last Duncan Donuts opened

 

[Cowboy Mac]

We have an unlimited amount of twinhills uniforms as long as you can fit into a size 4xl.

I’d be more worried about NOT fitting into a 4XL…

 

[AKCoverMan]

I want to be off before sunset everyday this peak.

Sunset about 345pm here right now.. been getting off work about six or seven hours past that.

 

[AKCoverMan]

I highly doubt this, but it’s definitely been slow for us.

Question.. you have Amazon doing own delivery your area?

 

[Est.1998]

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

Saturday at my center during peak is the easiest day of the week.
I worked yesterday from 9:15am to 3pm.

 

[Steamer]

Check on how many scab pvd drivers your center is using

Ya, they aren't supposed to be able to take work from us. Then management sends them out to get stops from our drivers.

 

[bottomups]

Saturday at my center during peak is the easiest day of the week.
I worked yesterday from 9:15am to 3pm.

Should have demanded your 8 hours if they made you come in.

I skied Breckenridge for 4 hours.

 

[badpal]

Rural or metro?

I would imagine rural like us. still overwhelmed with amazon. But even here seeing 1-800 signs with PACKAGE DELIVERY starting to pop up in the last month. Have not seen any Prime delivery so far, but it's getting closer.