I delivered over 500 pkgs this wk to the PO on my rte. Some Cnee & myself find this service a disservice!!!! It is, in my opinion, costing us FT jobs... at this point, in previous yrs, they would be running more splits for all the stops we would have.
Then I come home and watch the PO TV ads for their flat rate boxes. We are in competition with them. Why should they go the final leg of the delivery? As a CNEE I would think that the shipper thinks the PO can do a better job of servicing the customer. The CNEE I have spoken with think it is ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!! The PO drops the pkg in plain site, not always out of weather & does not ring the bell/or knock. This also does not take into acct that it takes 1 more day to get the pkg to the CNEE. Last, I guess Art 26 of the National Master can be rewritten the next contract.