What Do Package Drivers Really Appreciate For Christmas?

[ZeroHandicapper]

Are you here just for the benefits? I'm not judging you-----a lot of people who are self-employed work here for the bennies.

PS...we are a smaller facility and it is very hard to get on because people just do not leave. Many PT'ers with 20-25 years. A vast majority of them either have businesses or are farmers and are there strictly for the benefits. I was lucky to have several people vouch for me but still had to go through the application process, etc. They say it used to be alot easier to just put in a good word and they would call you. I have busted butt and have been told by the sup that I will be called back without question. Like anything else, I take it with a grain of salt and will believe it when I see it, but my chances are very very good.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I hope it works out for you.

 

[ZeroHandicapper]

The benefits are great for a part time job but a lot of people never take advantage of them.

They are incredible, some of the best around for sure. I would take a pay cut to become a driver and go full time, so PT preload is all I am interested in.

 

[oldngray]

They are incredible, some of the best around for sure. I would take a pay cut to become a driver and go full time, so PT preload is all I am interested in.

They are good but used to be even better.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Do the extended hours during Peak negatively impact your business?

 

[ZeroHandicapper]

I hope it works out for you.

Thanks man! All I can do is bust my butt and hope for the best. No matter what I do I always take pride in my hard work and UPS has been good for me and my business. I want the company to grow and will always try to do my part.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Thanks man! All I can do is bust my butt and hope for the best. No matter what I do I always take pride in my hard work and UPS has been good for me and my business. I want the company to grow and will always try to do my part.

The sooner you learn that you are little more than an employee ID number the better off you will be.

You need to get some of the veteran drivers, especially those for whom you load their cars, to put in a good word for you. Positive feedback from a veteran driver goes a LONG way.

 

[ZeroHandicapper]

Do the extended hours during Peak negatively impact your business?

So my business goes hard from March until about the end of November. December-Feb we do about 60% of the business just because it is our slow season. While it has been tough (sleep wise), I have people that have picked up the slack for me. Go in at 2AM, off at 9-10AM. Run home shower, at office by 10:30-11AM, work until noon or 1PM, then driver picks me up to jump and we go until whenever. Repeat. LOL. When I was interviewing they said jumping was not required but was recommended (talked to my sup and she told me should could care less if I jumped that it had nothing to do with preload or getting kept on. She told me my job was to preload and that is all she cared about). So I took that as I probably should. So I jump with my regular driver and we have fun and I know he does not want anyone else, so I do not want to put him with random people a couple days a week so I just fight through it. It will all be over before we know it, so I just grind on.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

The jumping will not be a factor in their decision to keep you or not.

 

[ZeroHandicapper]

The sooner you learn that you are little more than an employee ID number the better off you will be.

You need to get some of the veteran drivers, especially those for whom you load their cars, to put in a good word for you. Positive feedback from a veteran driver goes a LONG way.

Yeah, that's where I am fortunate. I know all the vets. They have delivered on my route one time or another. They give me more than the other preloaders so that is a good thing. I have busted butt and done well and I have been on two of the toughest trucks in the facility since my first week. The preloader who is normally doing them has 24 years in and she took a break for peak and is up at the front scanning and putting on labels. She is an incredible loader and probably one of the nicest people ever and has helped me with the little things that those drivers like. Certain bulks go here or there, etc.

 

[ZeroHandicapper]

The jumping will not be a factor in their decision to keep you or not.

You should have told me that weeks ago!! LOl

 

[Air Recovery]

The benefits are great for a part time job but a lot of people never take advantage of them.

Crazy too. Alot of my friends have paid $3,000+ for their babies being delivered at hospitals.....

My wife got top of the line treatment/medication/specialists and we paid $0.

Nothing.


The woman at admissions was clicking through the screens with a worried expression on her face and literally was like,

"And if you can't pay all at once don't even worry sweetie because we have payment plans where you can pay in installments!" (I look very young)
She clicks the final screen
She then goes, "Your co-pay is.....0. 0? Wow, you have amazing health insurance!!!"

And I look at her and go, "Yeah I work at UPS..."

 

[clean hairy]

My dentist is surprised with the no annual limit for dental work....

 

[Air Recovery]

My dentist is surprised with the no annual limit for dental work....

Yeah my dentist was intruiged by our insurance as well....especially back when i first met her back when i was a part time employee

 

[olroadbeech]

The OP should have the option to delete threads they have started.
@cheryl. especially when it has served it's purpose and has completely gone off the tracks.

 

[cheryl]

The OP should have the option to delete threads they have started.
@cheryl. especially when it has served it's purpose and has completely gone off the tracks.

hmmmm, I've been participating in forums for 20+ years. Never seen one that works like that. To me the purpose of a forum is for the community to discuss content that will be interesting or useful to others. Your description seems to be serving only the person that starts a thread. It sounds better fitted to a chatroom where the content automatically expires.

 

[Boywondr]

She clicks the final screen
She then goes, "Your co-pay is.....0. 0? Wow, you have amazing health insurance!!!"

And I look at her and go, "Yeah I work at UPS..."

"Yeah I work at UPS"... and the union has fought for our benefits or we'd have lesser insurance plans like UPS management does.
Is that what you meant?

 

[Boywondr]

I got $200 two years in a row for making sure a customer's packages got put into his business when he was out of the state. He trusted me with a key to his side door and the parts I delivered for him must have been expensive.
A bottle of water and a candy bar are nice but the cash was definitely at the top of our list for sure.

 

[rustys954rr]

"Yeah I work at UPS"... and the union has fought for our benefits or we'd have lesser insurance plans like UPS management does.
Is that what you meant?

I usually say something like it pays to be union, I give ups no credit for the health insurance. They'd give us nothing if it wasn't for the union.

 

[Boywondr]

I usually say something like it pays to be union, I give ups no credit for the health insurance. They'd give us nothing if it wasn't for the union.

And the law.