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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 792942" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>As usual, the toughest part of this peak was the <em>first</em> two weeks of December, when our management seemed unable to comprehend why the hell everybody had so many stops.</p><p> </p><p>Once it finally dawned on them that Christmas was getting close and that a lot <em>more</em> packages were about to come thru the system, they rented some trucks and hired some helpers and things actually went fairly well.</p><p> </p><p>I bid a new route and started running it a couple of weeks ago, so there was a bit of chaos involved in the transition...but I also had a great helper and the weather has been good. I have been right at the limit of 60 hrs a week but I have been getting done and coming in clean and its actually gone pretty smoothly.</p><p> </p><p>The peak season of today is far, far better than the peak seasons of the late 80's when I started. Package Level Detail has added a level of accountability as far as service goes; on a really bad day a driver <em>might</em> bring back 30 or 40 stops. Back in the 80's before packages were tracked, it was quite routine to bring 200 missed stops back to the building at 11:00 at night and in any given loop you would have barns and garages that were packed with missed stops that had been stashed there for storage. We would spend the entire week <em>after</em> Christmas cleaning them out. I am glad those days are over with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 792942, member: 14668"] As usual, the toughest part of this peak was the [I]first[/I] two weeks of December, when our management seemed unable to comprehend why the hell everybody had so many stops. Once it finally dawned on them that Christmas was getting close and that a lot [I]more[/I] packages were about to come thru the system, they rented some trucks and hired some helpers and things actually went fairly well. I bid a new route and started running it a couple of weeks ago, so there was a bit of chaos involved in the transition...but I also had a great helper and the weather has been good. I have been right at the limit of 60 hrs a week but I have been getting done and coming in clean and its actually gone pretty smoothly. The peak season of today is far, far better than the peak seasons of the late 80's when I started. Package Level Detail has added a level of accountability as far as service goes; on a really bad day a driver [I]might[/I] bring back 30 or 40 stops. Back in the 80's before packages were tracked, it was quite routine to bring 200 missed stops back to the building at 11:00 at night and in any given loop you would have barns and garages that were packed with missed stops that had been stashed there for storage. We would spend the entire week [I]after[/I] Christmas cleaning them out. I am glad those days are over with. [/QUOTE]
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