Rural deliveries

[Ms.PacMan]

USPS last mile delivery was supposed to help with rural deliveries but Amazon sends rural deliveries ground.

 

[Packmule]

Guess I never looked at it that way.

 

[Jones]

I remember how well the rural deferral program worked.

 

[Turdferguson]

I remember how well the rural deferral program worked.

I bet the Roosters loved it

 

[Jones]

I bet the Roosters loved it

They cried when it got cancelled..

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I remember how well the rural deferral program worked.

Rural remote worked extremely well when the drivers were allowed to make the decision and lost its lustre when management began to use it as a dispatch tool.

 

[What'dyabringmetoday???]

Rural remote worked extremely well when the drivers were allowed to make the decision and lost its lustre when management began to use it as a dispatch tool.

Speaking of tools...

 

[watdaflock?]

But all those who just choose to live out there start paying what it really costs to service them.

I think UPS should just say no to their business.

If you live someplace out in BFE, which UPS must use these trucks, you should find another delivery service.

 

[Re-Raise]

I have been on routes where the houses are numbered in the order they were built.

For example, 6 houses might all be RR1 box 16. The first house built there is 16A on up to the last one built being 16F.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

If you live someplace out in BFE, which UPS must use these trucks, you should find another delivery service.

We have one of those. They drive pretty nice, but it's almost like delivering out of a rental. Though it does have shelves which is nice. None of the guys that could actually use it like it, so it's usually just a spare.

 

[PT Car Washer]

We have one of those. They drive pretty nice, but it's almost like delivering out of a rental. Though it does have shelves which is nice. None of the guys that could actually use it like it, so it's usually just a spare.

Do the Saturday Air guys drive them?

 

[FrigidFTSup]

Do the Saturday Air guys drive them?

If there are no other package cars available they will. Or if they know the rural roads outside of town are going to be bad.

 

[upsgrunt]

I have been on routes where the houses are numbered in the order they were built.

For example, 6 houses might all be RR1 box 16. The first house built there is 16A on up to the last one built being 16F.

I learned a route like that when I started, but there were 23 houses in the subdivision, and they let the homeowners pick their letter. What a freaking nightmare! Someone finally showed me a map they had plotted, and after 911 went in the town changed the addresses to something more "normal".

 

[AKCoverMan]

We have four daily routes that use these, we just got all new ones as the old ones were falling apart.

Those four routes you totally want a 4x4! If they try to send a regular PC a lot of packages are gonna get ECD.

 

[UPSGUY72]

In the old days rural roues didn't get delivered everyday...

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

In the old days rural roues didn't get delivered everyday...

This is only partially true.

 

[UPSGUY72]

This is only partially true.

what part was partially true. In my area they didn't deliver to certain towns on certain days and those where rural routes towns...

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

what part was partially true. In my area they didn't deliver to certain towns on certain days....

What about the routes that are entirely rural? Are you saying that these routes only ran every other day?

 

[sailfish]

I've been noticing over the years how often people in extreme rural locations, that cost exorbitant amounts of money to deliver, have us running out to their place 3 to 4 times a week. Yet they pay no more for our service than the family living in the suburbs.
In winter these places are even more time consuming and dangerous to access, and exasperating at Christmas time.
I was wondering how many billions UPS could save if we took an agriculture/non agriculture approach to pricing. True farmers and ranchers continue to pay the same rate as now. We need them out there growing the nation's food.
But all those who just choose to live out there start paying what it really costs to service them. See how fast they start having that stuff left with Aunt Betty in town!

This is something I've wondered about myself. People want to live so far off the grid for some reason beyond me, but still want the convenience of getting Amazon everyday.

When I flip through my stops in the morning, sometimes there's that one stop that just makes me roll my eyes. They're twenty minutes out of the way, and they're not a farm or a ranger station, it's just some bags with money that want to never leave the house apparently.

 

[UPSGUY72]

What about the routes that are entirely rural? Are you saying that these routes only ran every other day?

Yes that's what I'm saying... What part of they didn't deliver to certain towns on certain days didn't you get...