UPS new pickup method.

DRAisawesome

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UPS customer prints a label and the system automatically sets up a pickup. Not sure how Ground will compete with this. How you going to get your drivers to go to these stops? There goes there hourly rate to $5.

UPS is ran by innovators and realize labor cost is part of business. Just my two cents.
 

UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)

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UPS customer prints a label and the system automatically sets up a pickup. Not sure how Ground will compete with this. How you going to get your drivers to go to these stops? There goes there hourly rate to $5.

UPS is ran by innovators and realize labor cost is part of business. Just my two cents.

This is only partially correct. The customer has what we call a "smart pickup", which is only $10/week compared to $20/week for a standard daily pickup. Smart pickups are designed for infrequent shippers who use our computer software to process their packages. The customer has to process a package at least 45 minutes before the commit time or the pickup will drop out of our pickup log and we will not stop to make their pickup. They can still process packages but they will have to get them to us if they want them to go out the same day. Smart pickups can save a lot of time and miles and work well for all involved.
 

oldngray

nowhere special
Maybe not the driver now dispatched with extra deliveries because most of his pickups are smart pickups thus reducing his planned day.

Reduces the theoretical planned day. It doesn't account for smart pickups shipping anything so normally a driver will have more work than UPS tries to claim.
 
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