Not good. Mother Nature threw a wrench in the works last Wednesday with the Great Holiday Blizzard of 2006. They called us back to the center a little after noon, kept us home Thursday, we worked Friday just delivering the leftover Wednesday stuff, since they didn't do a sort, and made us work Saturday (never had to do in 22 years) still trying to get Wednesday's stuff off.
I have a rural route and they didn't let me do it Saturday, instead sending it out with the rural guy next to me, who only delivered his stuff and brought all of mine back. I got the chore of trying to deliver residentials in town with a helper (haven't had a helper since the '80's) so I just sheeted while he ran packages, and I did get a few cigars smoked. They finally did a sort today, and I had a lot of work but got it all delivered. I never did fail to clean, except the day they called us in early. Nice that they reward a guy who gets the job done by giving his work to someone who doesn't.
Tomorrow we will probably get everything in the sort and it'll be another heavy one. The in-town guys can't get their stuff delivered because none of the side streets are plowed and getting stuck is normal for them. I hope they just let me have my route and get my job accomplished without any questionable management adjustments. We all know about those, eh?
Some customers are a tad unreasonable. I had one guy who lives right on a main, plowed road tell me there's not much we can do with all the snow and wind after I mentioned that his packages probably should've been there last week. The very next stop was a guy who lived a couple of miles off that main road where I had to hit some drifts and rely on momentum and my new Bridgestone Blizzaks to get me to his house. He cantankerously refused a package from Best Buy (ground) because it was too late, and Fed Ex Ground had been there Saturday with something else he had ordered after the one I brought.
I told him that it hadn't been on a truck for delivery until today, and he said our own website had it in our center Friday morning. I can't control whether they run a sort or not. Guess he thinks we're incompetent. Fed Ex uses rented SUVs up there, and has a lot less to do. Ah, well, the joys of Christmas.