FedEx, UPS confront busiest holiday season on record

cheryl

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FedEx, UPS confront busiest holiday season on record - Times-Standard

The next week will be a 24/7, backbreaking, sleep-deprived haul for couriers such as FedEx, the United Parcel Service and the U.S. Postal Service, the last connections to deliver many much-anticipated Christmas gifts. And there is no room for mistakes.

Last year's fiasco -- when retailers over-promised on deliveries and bad weather snarled courier services, causing millions of gifts to arrive long after Santa's visit -- is still a painful memory, and everyone is working hard to avoid repeating the same mistakes.
 

UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)

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Been manageable so far. Just hoping we peaked yesterday.

Same here, although we are being told Monday will be our Peak day.

We are working Sunday (3,300 stops) to take the edge off of Monday (5,000 stops). We would have been looking at 8,300 stops on Monday which would have totally overwhelmed our small 43 route center.
 

Packmule

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So far they asked for four volunteers for Saturday. Not a word about Sunday and week's schedule shows everyone off.
 

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It's nice to see a reporter place the blame, for the mess that was Peak last year, where it belonged.... The customers (for last minute ordering) and shippers (for over promising).
 
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