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They have been testing it for months through FedEx Freight...UPS will be doing the same thing at some point.
https://www.bizjournals.com/memphis...-and-assembly-fedex-piloting-new-service.html
7 days will be here after peak 2019
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They have been testing it for months through FedEx Freight...UPS will be doing the same thing at some point.
https://www.bizjournals.com/memphis...-and-assembly-fedex-piloting-new-service.html
MassWineGuy
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McFeely
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You're Express. The OP is Ground/HD. I can't imagine Express would go 7 days for some time, but the company has made questionable unprofitable decisions in the past sooooo...
Jkloc420
Do you need an air compressor or tire gauge
Fred S and renee sowell
It will be fine
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A couple VPs have been touring the country to chat with the common folk.
MassWineGuy
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Oh! How can you even imagine suggesting that?
sadmanhere
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yes....those vps
Cactus
Just telling it like it is
Guys who are oblivious to obvious problems within a station that dress fancy then just walk around and act important, then go to lunch never to be seen again.
Operational needs
Virescit Vulnere Virtus
We have VIPs at our station often enough that someone bought real glasses for them to use. No foam or paper cups for them. Lol.
MassWineGuy
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When I came off road last night, which is during the pm sort, I had about 12 international envelopes with no documentation. I tried to copy each label, but our new copier took (no exaggeration) 10 minutes to turn on and warm up. Then it had to load some extra software. Then it required an authorized log-in. Of course, my badge didn’t work.
I just skipped it and explained it to the person handling internationals. It is totally and mind numbingly crazy. It’s a good thing we’re not in a hurry during sort.
I just skipped it and explained it to the person handling internationals. It is totally and mind numbingly crazy. It’s a good thing we’re not in a hurry during sort.
Fred's Myth
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Ha! Thought you meant eyeglasses at first! Futile gesture!
Cactus
Just telling it like it is
That’s what I thought too.
They work just fine ....especially the rose colored ones.....Come to think of it , they're the only ones X buys.
It will be fine
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Officially announced. This should be fun.
MassWineGuy
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Huh? For Ground?
CJinx
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Yep. Seven day delivery, increased Smartpost integration, and increased capability for non-conveyable shipping... all announced today.
It will be fine
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6 day operations didn’t increase the Ground volume enough to offset the cost, so they had to revise earnings projections down. Somehow that lead them to the conclusion we should go for 7 days. Maybe they’re right this time, but it seems doubtful. It’s going to cost a lot of money and maybe in 5 years we’ll be glad we did it to keep up or we’ll just light money on fire and never gain the volume needed to sustain the 7 day operation. I’m not convinced many smaller shippers want to process shipments on the weekends for this to make sense.
For contractors in the high mileage low volume low SPH areas with revenue streams not even a steady drip this could be the final nails in the coffin especially in the rural snow belt regions where township and some state secondary roads once they're plowed on Friday they're not touched again to Monday I agree . The company could lose a crap load of money but once committed there's no going back . So expect contractors to be dropping like flies in the depressed rural areas.
It will be fine
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HD. It’s residential delivery only for now. They are going to rebrand HD/smartpost as e-commerce and pay us the lower stop rate for all e-commerce stops.
