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<blockquote data-quote="Ricochet1a" data-source="post: 1123593" data-attributes="member: 22880"><p>It won't work like that. You'll have a 2 hour 'window' to deliver the package. You CANNOT make an attempt before the window opens (counts as a failure). You will be expected...</p><p></p><p>AM Delivery routes - fit in the delivery appointment within your pattern. You will be given a prompt by your PPAD that you have a piece that you VAN and has an appointment. You MUST get that package delivered in that window. There are options for stations that are DRA enables and non-DRA enabled to work this. This is ALL supposed to work under DRA.</p><p></p><p>PM pickup routes - fit the appointment within your pattern without having any late pickups. Expect start times to be moved up if the program catches on, and expect to see shippers have their pickup times manipulated to make later afternoon delivery appointments possible. PMers are basically going to do oncall and reg pickups, then get delivery appointments in, then any drop boxes and large volume late afternoon shippers before they clear. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Customers will have until midnight before the package is due for delivery to request an appointment or reroute. They will have to log into the FedEx web page and pull up the tracking number and make their request and pay for it. The appointment will indeed be loaded into the system before the AM sort starts. The PPAD will prompt the Courier that they are scanning a package with a del appointment on it. The package is supposed to go to the gatekeeper FIRST, then the route delivering it will get it. So the AM Gatekeepers will have the potential of being completely swamped with relabels, if there are too many del appoints coming through. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This is where evening del routes may be added if the program really takes off. At this point, Memphis doesn't have a clue how the program will be received. They THINK they will get $150 million a year in revenue off of this program (I shudder to think what the cost of running this program will be in terms of extra labor expense and fuel for trucks - the Sprinters get better milage though...). And there are those who think that Memphis hasn't been planning this shift to a boutique delivery service all along. They are going to be in for a rude awakening.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ricochet1a, post: 1123593, member: 22880"] It won't work like that. You'll have a 2 hour 'window' to deliver the package. You CANNOT make an attempt before the window opens (counts as a failure). You will be expected... AM Delivery routes - fit in the delivery appointment within your pattern. You will be given a prompt by your PPAD that you have a piece that you VAN and has an appointment. You MUST get that package delivered in that window. There are options for stations that are DRA enables and non-DRA enabled to work this. This is ALL supposed to work under DRA. PM pickup routes - fit the appointment within your pattern without having any late pickups. Expect start times to be moved up if the program catches on, and expect to see shippers have their pickup times manipulated to make later afternoon delivery appointments possible. PMers are basically going to do oncall and reg pickups, then get delivery appointments in, then any drop boxes and large volume late afternoon shippers before they clear. Customers will have until midnight before the package is due for delivery to request an appointment or reroute. They will have to log into the FedEx web page and pull up the tracking number and make their request and pay for it. The appointment will indeed be loaded into the system before the AM sort starts. The PPAD will prompt the Courier that they are scanning a package with a del appointment on it. The package is supposed to go to the gatekeeper FIRST, then the route delivering it will get it. So the AM Gatekeepers will have the potential of being completely swamped with relabels, if there are too many del appoints coming through. This is where evening del routes may be added if the program really takes off. At this point, Memphis doesn't have a clue how the program will be received. They THINK they will get $150 million a year in revenue off of this program (I shudder to think what the cost of running this program will be in terms of extra labor expense and fuel for trucks - the Sprinters get better milage though...). And there are those who think that Memphis hasn't been planning this shift to a boutique delivery service all along. They are going to be in for a rude awakening. [/QUOTE]
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