I'd have to get something like a FitBit to give an accurate estimate, but there's a
whole lot of hiking up long, narrow driveways on some of the backroads I've been covering. Then you hit the neighborhoods and it's massive houses, insane driveways, >20 steps up the front porch, and the occasional gated home.
The walking doesn't really bother me, though. Well... most days. Tuesday damn near killed me with heat exhaustion, and I probably should've taken more than a single day off to recover. I'm still worried about being DQ'd for something like that, though, so I dragged my ass back to work as soon as I stopped cramping up.
As a preloader, I always pictured drivers just driving around dropping off packages. I never really thought about all the minutiae of the job, things like weather/temperature, customers that won't answer the door until you've already completed the stop as a non-delivery and are hopping back in the truck, how much time signature required'sand pick-ups can take, just how short of a leash management has you on, etc etc. I guess it goes back to that old adage that the grass is always greener on the other side, but with UPS the
's just brown everywhere.