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<blockquote data-quote="35years" data-source="post: 3218006" data-attributes="member: 60822">&quot;The upcoming holiday period is shaping up to be another record-breaking shipping season. In fact, United Parcel Service (<a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/UPS?p=UPS" target="_blank">UPS</a>) <a href="https://www.pressroom.ups.com/pressroom/ContentDetailsViewer.page?ConceptType=PressReleases&amp;id=1509020552165-981" target="_blank">forecasts</a> 750 million packages will be delivered between Black Friday and New Year’s Eve, a 5% increase from last year.Despite the expected increase in volume, UPS expects to hire the same number of temporary seasonal workers as last year (95,000).“Last year we hired about the same number of people and we’re doing it this year with an extra 5% of packages and it is because of automation,” UPS CEO David Abney told Yahoo Finance.&quot;<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/ups-ceo-thanks-automation-shipping-packages-number-people-203521691.html" target="_blank">UPS CEO: Thanks to automation, we&#039;re shipping more packages with the same number of people</a>-----------------------------------------------------------------------UPS forecast a 5% increase in volume.No additional hiring compared to last year.So, are you going to do 5-18% more work than last year in the same amount of hours? Or is UPS going to pay you a lot more overtime?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="35years, post: 3218006, member: 60822"] [I]"The upcoming holiday period is shaping up to be another record-breaking shipping season. In fact,[B] United Parcel Service ([URL='https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/UPS?p=UPS']UPS[/URL]) [URL='https://www.pressroom.ups.com/pressroom/ContentDetailsViewer.page?ConceptType=PressReleases&id=1509020552165-981']forecasts[/URL] 750 million packages will be delivered between Black Friday and New Year’s Eve, a 5% increase from last year.[/B][/I] [I]Despite the expected increase in volume, UPS expects to hire the same number of temporary seasonal workers as last year (95,000).[/I] [I]“Last year we hired about the same number of people and we’re doing it this year with an extra 5% of packages and it is because of automation,” UPS CEO David Abney told Yahoo Finance."[/I] [I][URL="https://www.yahoo.com/news/ups-ceo-thanks-automation-shipping-packages-number-people-203521691.html"]UPS CEO: Thanks to automation, we're shipping more packages with the same number of people[/URL] -----------------------------------------------------------------------[/I] [B]UPS forecast a 5% increase in volume. No additional hiring compared to last year. So, are you going to do 5-18% more work than last year in the same amount of hours? Or is UPS going to pay you a lot more overtime? [/B] [/QUOTE]

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