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If you met my management team you'd understand the avatar. I think they're a team, but they won't acknowledge each other as a worthy human beings.
Anybody else getting complaints about the implementation of DIM weight change?
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Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
I bet they don't forget again.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
I have noticed a lack of very large boxes on the truck. Makes it nice.
Although yesterday I delivered two fully put together stools in some big boxes. Gotta admitt made me feel a little better while I was fighting them all day knowing whoever it was got raped on shipping.
Although yesterday I delivered two fully put together stools in some big boxes. Gotta admitt made me feel a little better while I was fighting them all day knowing whoever it was got raped on shipping.
joeboodog
good people drink good beer
Sad thing is they may not use us again. I guess the powers that be got tired of treating us operation dogs (both management and hourly) like crap that they branched out to include our customers.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Are you serious?
Who are they going to use? FedEx uses the same pricing structure as us.
While I do feel DIM needs to be adjusted downward slightly it's also how we should of been charging all along. It'll blow over in a few months as businesses make the necessary adjustments.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
UPS is concerned about your safety and doesn't want you to struggle with those big boxes ... unless the shipper pays for it!
Both Ups and Fedex ground started just this year dim'ing under 3 cubic feet if Dim Wgt is greater than actual Wgt. IMO if one carrier didn't do it, the other couldn't. This along with USPS reducing rates up to 40lbs, it will be interesting.
I agree, the long standing want was heavy/dense packages, now they are all more equal by dim'ing, so smaller boxes are probably more beneficial running the #'s now, since those won't wear and tear their labor force as much, that is if both can keep the volume.
Some are getting new dims greater than then standard 166, others are getting flat out waivers. I do find it funny that perhaps the biggest culprit Amazon, probably the biggest single reason to do this, will almost assuredly get a higher dim divisor or a flat out waiver. What this means is they continue to grow, since their price remains unchanged and their competition, smaller has to pay dims, so they pass the higher price along to their customers. See what just happened there?
USPS also play a role here with Amazon.Interesting time.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
Age discrimination!
No. They just need to turn the company around. They need to be proactive, not reactive.
Spend the money now (don't worry about the stock price) Fix what needs to be fixed. And everybody will be a winner.
soberups
Pees in the brown Koolaid
I have a much better pension plan (Western Conference) than any supervisor hired in the last 10 years, and I will be eligible to retire when I am 50. Plus job security. Plus better benefits. Plus more vacations. Plus, I make more money and get paid for all the hours I work.
On the down side, I don't have a desk of my own.
upsbeernut
Sometimes i feel like a nut sometimes i dont
I got one from a small shipper. She is going to use the post office more often. If a lot of small shippers stop using us well more routes will be taken out and the senior drivers will be left working twice as hard.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
To the post office I assume?
Here's the thing the consumer may just have to get over the fact that shipping isn't free.
I can remember looking at shipping and handling fees for stuff in the Sears catalog in late 80's and early 90's and it was usually close to or more than $20.
Correct statement concerning management in the last ten years, but how are the managers with 25 or 35 years standing on their retirement. I agree Western Conference peer 80 is top of the food chain as far as union members, still it does not pay anywhere close to what senior management will be given. The early cheap MIP stock made most of them millions when they went public in the mid nineties not even counting that.
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Or UPS can see they have competition. This is a two way street, the market will speak.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
But you have a PC.
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