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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 460813" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>Im usually pretty quick to bash IE, but in this case I honestly cant see where they are at fault.</p><p> </p><p>A 10 gallon sink vs a 20 gallon sink wouldnt have mattered. A 50 gallon sink wouldnt have mattered. We needed a swimming pool and we didnt have one.</p><p> </p><p>In my area, UPS could have doubled the number of peak hires and rental trucks they brought in, and the outcome wouldn't have been all that much different.</p><p> </p><p>Given the benefit of hindsight, there are certainly some things that could have been done better. For instance, the retain trailers full of undelivered volume from the first couple of days should have been taken out to the employee parking lot, or even left on the street. Instead, the 40' trailers got buried in behind the trailers full of new incomng volume, which themselves were simply recycled and retained as the days went on and conditions became worse. Our lot very quickly became clogged with trailers, and the trailers with the "oldest" volume were blocked in, inaccessible, and wound up being unloaded last. </p><p> </p><p>The underlying issues had less to do with management mistakes, and more to do with the physical impossibility of processing, storing, loading and scanning hundreds of thousands of packages that took up several million cubic feet of unavailable space in a finite period of time when there was really no way to get rid of them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 460813, member: 14668"] Im usually pretty quick to bash IE, but in this case I honestly cant see where they are at fault. A 10 gallon sink vs a 20 gallon sink wouldnt have mattered. A 50 gallon sink wouldnt have mattered. We needed a swimming pool and we didnt have one. In my area, UPS could have doubled the number of peak hires and rental trucks they brought in, and the outcome wouldn't have been all that much different. Given the benefit of hindsight, there are certainly some things that could have been done better. For instance, the retain trailers full of undelivered volume from the first couple of days should have been taken out to the employee parking lot, or even left on the street. Instead, the 40' trailers got buried in behind the trailers full of new incomng volume, which themselves were simply recycled and retained as the days went on and conditions became worse. Our lot very quickly became clogged with trailers, and the trailers with the "oldest" volume were blocked in, inaccessible, and wound up being unloaded last. The underlying issues had less to do with management mistakes, and more to do with the physical impossibility of processing, storing, loading and scanning hundreds of thousands of packages that took up several million cubic feet of unavailable space in a finite period of time when there was really no way to get rid of them. [/QUOTE]
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