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[TooTechie]

Turning a random pile of 50 or 100 boxes on the ground into a properly sequenced load in your package car takes longer than you might think, especially when you are holding a flashlight in your mouth and you don't necessarily know what sequence numbers or even which route(s) have been dumped in there.

The packages brought out to our POD have already been palled and have the stickers on them. They are simply the 7000 & 8000 shelves that would have been loaded in the morning had there been room.

It only takes 15 minutes to load them. The stuff in the pod are separated into back of the pod, front of the pod and each side wall (4 piles for 4 drivers). The helper carries crap out of the POD and hands it to the driver. The driver puts it in sequence as it's handed to him. It's quick & efficient.

As for the shuttling, they use a casual who loads up the stuff into a Uhaul, drives 20-30 minutes to the POD then unloads it into 4 piles. It probably costs the company $40 for a couple hours of labor for the casual and gas plus whatever the POD costs. Compare that to all the hours saved by working the top pay driver at overtime rate everyday for over a month. Huge savings.

And for the company it's not even the savings. It's being able to get the drivers to deliver that much more.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

The packages brought out to our POD have already been palled and have the stickers on them. They are simply the 7000 & 8000 shelves that would have been loaded in the morning had there been room.

It only takes 15 minutes to load them. The stuff in the pod are separated into back of the pod, front of the pod and each side wall (4 piles for 4 drivers). The helper carries crap out of the POD and hands it to the driver. The driver puts it in sequence as it's handed to him. It's quick & efficient.

As for the shuttling, they use a casual who loads up the stuff into a Uhaul, drives 20-30 minutes to the POD then unloads it into 4 piles. It probably costs the company $40 for a couple hours of labor for the casual and gas plus whatever the POD costs. Compare that to all the hours saved by working the top pay driver at overtime rate everyday for over a month. Huge savings.

And for the company it's not even the savings. It's being able to get the drivers to deliver that much more.

Here's a thought-----why not just have the casual run off all of that work? It sounds like they are all residentials that are fairly close to the POD.

 

[TooTechie]

Here's a thought-----why not just have the casual run off all of that work? It sounds like they are all residentials that are fairly close to the POD.

The casual that is used first delivers to 3 major post offices which are cut off regular routes. That's 600-800 pieces. That gets him to lunch. After lunch he does that pod shuttling, then goes back and loads up about 100 stops he has to deliver without a helper.

 

[soberups]

The packages brought out to our POD have already been palled and have the stickers on them. They are simply the 7000 & 8000 shelves that would have been loaded in the morning had there been room.

It only takes 15 minutes to load them. The stuff in the pod are separated into back of the pod, front of the pod and each side wall (4 piles for 4 drivers). The helper carries crap out of the POD and hands it to the driver. The driver puts it in sequence as it's handed to him. It's quick & efficient.

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What we wind up with in our PODS is a random pile of whatever got left in the building because it couldn't be forced into the available cars. Plus they are used as drop points for misloads. In theory it would be great if your 7000 and 8000 sections were neatly stacked in there; the reality however is that when you are done with what is in your truck you report to the nearest POD and grab whatever happens to be in there and just go deliver it, whether it is "your" stuff or not. Usually it isn't in your EDD and it might be stops from 2 or 3 different routes so instead of relying on PAL labels you rely on experience and area knowledge to line the stops up for delivery.

 

[jumpman23]

What we wind up with in our PODS is a random pile of whatever got left in the building because it couldn't be forced into the available cars. Plus they are used as drop points for misloads. In theory it would be great if your 7000 and 8000 sections were neatly stacked in there; the reality however is that when you are done with what is in your truck you report to the nearest POD and grab whatever happens to be in there and just go deliver it, whether it is "your" stuff or not. Usually it isn't in your EDD and it might be stops from 2 or 3 different routes so instead of relying on PAL labels you rely on experience and area knowledge to line the stops up for delivery.

We do what we do soldier lol.