How many driving jobs has Sure Post taken? Finish Line used to ship UPS (about 75-100 boxes per day) and now they are all going Sure Post. I wish you could see in this picture how deep these bags go.
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The last estimate was that it had taken 1250 FedEx drivers jobs and saved 560 UPS driver jobs.
This Christmas I am delivering sure post to the post offices. I deliver 2 trailer full of that stuff. It is east money for me.
I hope you all are correct! It was getting my turn to drive until this started happening. Then they cut numerous routes out. Wait... maybe that was IE that cut the routes out. LOL
I still don't deliver anywhere near the amount to the post office that the fed ex man does.
We also saw routes cut out. Coincided with the rollout of EDD/PAS. That made sense. UPS told shareholders that they expected to see a 10% increase in efficiency. We lost about 10% of our routes. Some routes absorbed the extra easily, some did not. I definitely saw increased productivity with PAS/EDD.
My brother has 28 years in with the post office and he tells me the same thing. They're not equipped to handle it and they hate it.I was at our local Post Office branch Monday to pick up a certified letter. The clerk and I started talking about SurePost---she told me that they absolutely hate it. They are not equipped to deal with it and would much rather we keep our own work.
our customers hate it even more.... one minute you're looking forward to seeing your regular UPS driver and the next time you track it you see "Delivered To Local Post Office" from where it may take another 1-3 days before you actually get it.
where it may take another 1-3 days before you actually get it.
It's interesting you guys are saying all this because I can't tell you guys how many of these black labels end up BACK on my truck. If my peak route is 265 stops, at least 80 are stuff given back from the PO.