Saturday grounds delivery

[LeadBelly]

I am...if full timers are taking over most of the air delivery then why need the language... It will be obsolete

In places like New York where they have air walkers, and many other instances I think the need still applies, but I get your point.

 

[East coast navy]

The need for part time Saturday air drivers will diminish as the regular drivers will do the bulk of the work. Outlying areas that don't have Saturday ground yet will still use air drivers for Saturday air.

It will create more fulltime jobs or more partime... Either way it doesn't look like a bad thing... Only worry is hopeful the company lets the union in more and faster to work out the contract Language... At least in 177

 

[East coast navy]

I thought that we were sweeping UPS Stores.

UPS launching Saturday ground operations in U.S.- CEO

 

[Coldworld]

In places like New York where they have air walkers, and many other instances I think the need still applies, but I get your point.

They still use air walkers???

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

They still use air walkers???

Yes

 

[East coast navy]

I should have said not enough p/u' s to have a significant effect on feeders. No scheduled reload Saturday night (yet).

Wait until the customers see ups will sort Saturday's and have ready for Monday... No delivery company does this... Big changes...

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

They still use air walkers???

Yes but they are told they must walk at a brisk pace.

 

[LeadBelly]

They still use air walkers???

There are a lot of different things going on all over the place. I was somewhere this week ant the ups man had an awesome beard.

 

[LeadBelly]

It's a big world.

 

[LeadBelly]

It will create more fulltime jobs or more partime... Either way it doesn't look like a bad thing... Only worry is hopeful the company lets the union in more and faster to work out the contract Language... At least in 177

I can tell you for sure that it has the IBT's attention. There is existing language that will be used, and we got some good people working on it. Starting this 17 months before the contract will benefit us all.

 

[Coldworld]

Yes but they are told they must walk at a brisk pace.

Can't tell if you are trying to be funny or are serious...

 

[MyTripisCut]

Can't tell if you are trying to be funny or are serious...

Don't let him know that, it's exactly what he wants!

 

[MyTripisCut]

UPS launching Saturday ground operations in U.S.- CEO

That was a very short article! Just my type.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Can't tell if you are trying to be funny or are serious...

Don't let him know that, it's exactly what he wants!

If only there were some way to express emotions online.

 

[pickup]

I'm not going to say where I live in New Jersey but about an hour and half ago, I saw a UPS package car making a residential delivery. I never saw that before on a Saturday afternoon.

 

[MyTripisCut]

I'm not going to say where I live in New Jersey but about an hour and half ago, I saw a UPS package car making a residential delivery. I never saw that before on a Saturday afternoon.

You must live near me, because I passed several today running errands!

 

[soberups]

In our center they reduced the routes on Monday from 57 to 52. Coverage of the pickups is an issue.

This is the issue I am foreseeing when we go to Saturdays.

Mondays are already enough of a smiletshow during the summer; routes get haphazardly combined and drivers wind up with 12 hours worth of business deliveries, or 4 hours worth of pickups to do in a 2 hour time window... in a car that can only physically contain half of the volume on what is typically our heaviest day in terms of pickups. Thinning out the volume even more by delivering some of it on Saturday will only make the problem worse. My prediction: we will have more service failures on Mondays during the summer months than we do during peak.

 

[Coldworld]

Don't let him know that, it's exactly what he wants!

We'll in a year we won't have to worry about it anymore...

 

[Hofficer Hater]

Saturday Ground is no bueno!

 

[MyTripisCut]

This is the issue I am foreseeing when we go to Saturdays.

Mondays are already enough of a smiletshow during the summer; routes get haphazardly combined and drivers wind up with 12 hours worth of business deliveries, or 4 hours worth of pickups to do in a 2 hour time window... in a car that can only physically contain half of the volume on what is typically our heaviest day in terms of pickups. Thinning out the volume even more by delivering some of it on Saturday will only make the problem worse. My prediction: we will have more service failures on Mondays during the summer months than we do during peak.

We have plenty of service problems. 8:30 start time on Mondays, don't typically leave til 9:10 at the earliest. Late air every Monday.