How did Peak go for you? - Page 2 - Brown Cafe

brownmonster · 12-25-2006, 09:20 AM

Still not near the stops we had in the mid 1990's. Business volume stayed heavy right to the end though.

iamoverit2 · 12-25-2006, 09:44 AM

I am a loader. We did not have a Peak Season this year! 3 1/2 - 4 hours shift. And we did not have this many scans. Economy is bad, gentleman, and UPS business is down.... What do you think?

toonertoo · 12-25-2006, 01:07 PM

I think people had enough money to shop all throughout the year. Instead of at the last rush. JMO, I think the economy is great seeing what I saw Sept, through DEC. Maybe not mine or yours.

browniehound · 12-25-2006, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by iamoverit2

I am a loader. We did not have a Peak Season this year! 3 1/2 - 4 hours shift. And we did not have this many scans. Economy is bad, gentleman, and UPS business is down.... What do you think?

I think the economy is in good shape except for, perhaps, a downturn in the housing market. I also believe the volume at UPS is up over the same period as last year. So I don't know what the heck you're talking about.

Jlemansk · 12-25-2006, 05:31 PM

Here in central Florida, I would have to say this was one of the worst peaks I have worked. This was my 19th peak and I can not believe how cheap UPS was on helpers and the Budget Trucks. Normally in my loop there are three cars, and during Christmas they put in two more routes. This year they put in a half a run?? So we all got jammed every day and of course they were being stingy on the helper hours. Last week I did not have a day with less than 300 stops, and forcing me to work Saturday was just icing on the cake. This year I will be bidding on a commercial route.

cachsux · 12-25-2006, 07:48 PM

Twenty first peak and not one day over 11 hours. Job discription didn`t change one bit. Thank you feeder!

hoser · 12-26-2006, 04:30 PM

peak went disturbingly well. very disturbingly well. better than non-peak days. it's almost as if something was being managed correctly. we were all worried.

khanawalt · 12-26-2006, 05:07 PM

Not good. Mother Nature threw a wrench in the works last Wednesday with the Great Holiday Blizzard of 2006. They called us back to the center a little after noon, kept us home Thursday, we worked Friday just delivering the leftover Wednesday stuff, since they didn't do a sort, and made us work Saturday (never had to do in 22 years) still trying to get Wednesday's stuff off.

I have a rural route and they didn't let me do it Saturday, instead sending it out with the rural guy next to me, who only delivered his stuff and brought all of mine back. I got the chore of trying to deliver residentials in town with a helper (haven't had a helper since the '80's) so I just sheeted while he ran packages, and I did get a few cigars smoked. They finally did a sort today, and I had a lot of work but got it all delivered. I never did fail to clean, except the day they called us in early. Nice that they reward a guy who gets the job done by giving his work to someone who doesn't.

Tomorrow we will probably get everything in the sort and it'll be another heavy one. The in-town guys can't get their stuff delivered because none of the side streets are plowed and getting stuck is normal for them. I hope they just let me have my route and get my job accomplished without any questionable management adjustments. We all know about those, eh?

Some customers are a tad unreasonable. I had one guy who lives right on a main, plowed road tell me there's not much we can do with all the snow and wind after I mentioned that his packages probably should've been there last week. The very next stop was a guy who lived a couple of miles off that main road where I had to hit some drifts and rely on momentum and my new Bridgestone Blizzaks to get me to his house. He cantankerously refused a package from Best Buy (ground) because it was too late, and Fed Ex Ground had been there Saturday with something else he had ordered after the one I brought.

I told him that it hadn't been on a truck for delivery until today, and he said our own website had it in our center Friday morning. I can't control whether they run a sort or not. Guess he thinks we're incompetent. Fed Ex uses rented SUVs up there, and has a lot less to do. Ah, well, the joys of Christmas.

LKLND3380 · 12-27-2006, 07:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Jlemansk

Here in central Florida, I would have to say this was one of the worst peaks I have worked. This was my 19th peak and I can not believe how cheap UPS was on helpers and the Budget Trucks. Normally in my loop there are three cars, and during Christmas they put in two more routes. This year they put in a half a run?? So we all got jammed every day and of course they were being stingy on the helper hours. Last week I did not have a day with less than 300 stops, and forcing me to work Saturday was just icing on the cake.

What can Bob Waitkus do to you?

Maybe he will share his bonus check with you