Going on third week of 15 minute positive pulls. Manager and others have mentioned that numbers are not being met on the delivery side, so they are trying to get all the planes into Memphis earlier and in turn sort goes down earlier and planes back out. Guess hoping to give a few more minutes on the delivery side of things.
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Agreed
Purplepackage
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they could do a 2 hour early pull, it wont help stations that are severely understaffed and dont have any hope of making p1
Cactus
Just telling it like it is
Thank all the engineers that messed things up in the first place.
whenIgetthere
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And we get the leave the building during peak at noon with 150 or more stops.
McFeely
Huge Member
...and you get paid at least double what some of the Express drivers are making.
This is exactly what Express is trying to do: 8 hour routes. They feel that they'd rather have more routes spreading the work out so they can pay less in overtime. Many drivers in my station are working ≤ 35 hours a week.
I work 4-10s and I can honestly say that I'm pretty worn out by the end of my 11-hour day. Could I do more? Sure. Do I want to do more? Not really. It's a job and it's not worth hurting my body any more than I already do. YMMV
MrFedEx
Engorged Member
Good luck with that.
MrFedEx
Engorged Member
The typical UPS route is far tighter and much more dense in terms of package count. Yes, they work very hard and don't have A/C in package cars. At the end of their contract, top wage is around $37.00 per hour for package car and more for feeders (which have A/C). On top of those wages, they also have an excellent pension (a real one), and superior benefits.
They also don't do on-calls like we do, so a straightline route is the norm, and far more efficient.
We make peanuts compared to them.
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UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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We do on calls.
But he's right, your rts are different than ours. I was a stupid 28 year old who turned down a UPS mgr's offer for a fulltime job in Emporia, KS. Couldn't imagine at the time living there the rest of my working life and of course our mgrs filled our heads with the horrors of working for UPS. All the hard work you guys do pales in comparison to the disappointment of doing without, the constant struggling, that FedEx gave me. 20-20 hindsight.
MrFedEx
Engorged Member
Not like we do.
MAKAVELI
Well-Known Member
Yeah I don't think they have one hour windows. And as our routes are more spread out that makes it even more difficult.
MrFedEx
Engorged Member
It used to be the customers had to call-in the day before, hardly what we have, which is the unlimited stupidity you mentioned. Customer: "Can you have the courier pick us up between 11:00 and 11:30"? FedEx Service Representative: "Si...err, yes, we'd be happy to have the courier pick up then. Can they also wash your car and do any errands for you while they're picking up"?
Cactus
Just telling it like it is
When I was doing an in-town p/u route years ago, I must have had the section of town with the dumbest people.
Some businesses would call in 4 or 5 times in a single afternoon and of course no one wanted fix the problem. The day managers didn't care. They were only concerned about the delivery side of the operation. The night manager, well he was in over his head. There was so much abuse of the system and then the district cries that we're not productive enough.
Not surprisingly, later on most those businesses went belly-up.
Was glad to say goodbye forever to that route.
Some businesses would call in 4 or 5 times in a single afternoon and of course no one wanted fix the problem. The day managers didn't care. They were only concerned about the delivery side of the operation. The night manager, well he was in over his head. There was so much abuse of the system and then the district cries that we're not productive enough.
Not surprisingly, later on most those businesses went belly-up.
Was glad to say goodbye forever to that route.
