badpal
Well-Known Member
One thing i have learned in my UPS career is too be careful what you ask for.
Peak season 2021 a dud?
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Brownsocks
Just a dog
I'm metro and Amazon is delivering almost all their stuff here. They have box vans, package cars, bulk vans and transits.
Est.1998
Well-Known Member
At one point all i was seeing was blue Amazon vans but now it seems they've all disappeared and have been replaced by white sprinters, and you see more of them than taxi cabs!
KearsargeCoop
Baseball, dart board
Our center is very rural, about 200 miles from a metro over 100k. I just don't see them coming into our area.
Brownsocks
Just a dog
They're running lots of sprinters here and a lot are rentals, but I am seeing more and more package cars. I have also noticed that a lot of my rs1 ireg Amazon returns were originally delivered by Amazon.
Same yesterday was 930-1530,got my guaranteed 8hrs,left with 100 less stops than every day this week,if a package couldn’t be delivere(closed,NI1,et) don’t scan it and just move on
PT 4 Life
Most-Hated Member
No idea.
Analbumcover
ControlPkgs
We have so many PVDs that the bottom seniority RPCDs are route-less and instead being given rentals to run around and take stops and pickups off of bid routes. This past week was heavier with cyber Monday volume but I still never punched out after 6:45pm.
Older guys can't believe it. Say that 10-15 years ago, the company didn't give a
if you were out until 10pm every night until New Years.
Older guys can't believe it. Say that 10-15 years ago, the company didn't give a
if you were out until 10pm every night until New Years.AKCoverMan
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Exact opposite here. Any FT finishing route before 2130 is generally coming back to the building to pickup load of PVD package that have not gone on road yet. They have new PVDs everyday they get 15 minutes of training and go out and fail at an alarming but not unexpected rate.We have so many PVDs that the bottom seniority RPCDs are route-less and instead being given rentals to run around and take stops and pickups off of bid routes. This past week was heavier with cyber Monday volume but I still never punched out after 6:45pm.
Older guys can't believe it. Say that 10-15 years ago, the company didn't give a
Yesterday we did a pre-preload for Monday,,one PVD route already has more than a FT package route. My route is dispatched for ten hours on road so maybe I’ll get to tackle some of that about 2000 tomorrow night
AKCoverMan
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Virtually every FT in my building was over 56 hours and more than 3/4 were at 59 and change. Nobody not getting enough work here.
Cowboy Mac
Well-Known Member
That’s crazy. Most of your day is delivering in the dark. Assuming you get to your area by 10:30 and including an hour lunch, that’s only about 4 hours of delivering in daylight.
AKCoverMan
Well-Known Member
My friend, our sort starts at 1000. During peak it’s a moral victory to get to my first stop before 1300.
tramtwo
Well-Known Member
I'd like to see a requirement that if a 22.4 doesn't hit a certain number of inside hours that the job is automatically converted to RPCD. If they can't get rid of the classification which I doubt that's ever going away. I'd also like to see a provision if the 22.4 doesn't go away that you can no longer use part-timers to temporarily cover drive.
Including the supervisors taking a route out there's six different ways that regular package car driver work is being done now. Soon to be seven with the same day delivery company they bought.
22.3
22.4
TCD
PVD
Seasonal Driver
Supervisor
Best contract ever.
pkgdriver
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olroadbeech
Happy Verified UPSer
all the local papers are pushing buy local buy local buy local
so we agree and are buying local and looking for american made goods if possible.
so we agree and are buying local and looking for american made goods if possible.
Coldworld
Well-Known Member
FedEx is an absolute joke right now… they have things that are being held up for a week coming out to the west coast. I have 2 pkgs that shippers sent by them and they were supposed to be here by now but I don’t expect anything for a week at least. Whatever
Coldworld
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Malls have actually been very busy.. especially “outlet store” type places. I think the malls that are the most busy have all of the National chains and the stores for all of the kids… not every mall is the same
olroadbeech
Happy Verified UPSer
people don't realize what id s going on or they just dont wanna know.
China is going to own the USA soon. If not already.
Shift Inhibit
He who laughs last didn't get it.
What are these “local papers” you speak of?
