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<blockquote data-quote="Big Package" data-source="post: 3676304" data-attributes="member: 67494"><p>Wife and I have a free prime trial and ordered something around midnight and it was here this morning around 0900. I don't know who delivered it. Sometimes USPS does but that's around 6pm on Sunday. There's a new amazon facility a short bike ride away from us in a big city so I'm guessing someone biked it or maybe even used their contractors in amazonmobiles.</p><p></p><p>Whoever it was, they're making more money than UPS having delivered nothing on Sunday. Let alone next day couple hours later. And I got that service free? Wow.</p><p></p><p>I don't think UPS saw this one coming. Now UPS doesn't just want the biggest slice of the pie. They want the whole <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" />in thing. I think the problem with this contract is so many incredible things happened in the shipping industry and ecommerce, in such a relatively short period of time, that has now left UPS in a pickle.</p><p></p><p>We just lost substantial amazon, enough so that we no longer have a staffing problem (drivers working belts), and the number of employees has changed very little.</p><p></p><p>Here, both the amazon facility and FedEx give BCBS benefits at 30/90 days, sign on of $15/hr, up to $17.50 in 90 days DoE and yearly raises, paid weekly, no wait for paid major holidays, a week vaca at 1 year and 2 at two years and increasing. Some FedEx drivers are at $20 within just a few years right off the road, if they can cut it.</p><p></p><p>These places did it right. They found the properly skilled workers and paid them well to keep them and now it's impossible to get work at either, but we could always use a few bodies. </p><p></p><p>We will need a lot more if UPS becomes the McDonald's of the shipping industry. Working at UPS becomes the "if I get fired I can always work there but for less".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Package, post: 3676304, member: 67494"] Wife and I have a free prime trial and ordered something around midnight and it was here this morning around 0900. I don't know who delivered it. Sometimes USPS does but that's around 6pm on Sunday. There's a new amazon facility a short bike ride away from us in a big city so I'm guessing someone biked it or maybe even used their contractors in amazonmobiles. Whoever it was, they're making more money than UPS having delivered nothing on Sunday. Let alone next day couple hours later. And I got that service free? Wow. I don't think UPS saw this one coming. Now UPS doesn't just want the biggest slice of the pie. They want the whole :censored:in thing. I think the problem with this contract is so many incredible things happened in the shipping industry and ecommerce, in such a relatively short period of time, that has now left UPS in a pickle. We just lost substantial amazon, enough so that we no longer have a staffing problem (drivers working belts), and the number of employees has changed very little. Here, both the amazon facility and FedEx give BCBS benefits at 30/90 days, sign on of $15/hr, up to $17.50 in 90 days DoE and yearly raises, paid weekly, no wait for paid major holidays, a week vaca at 1 year and 2 at two years and increasing. Some FedEx drivers are at $20 within just a few years right off the road, if they can cut it. These places did it right. They found the properly skilled workers and paid them well to keep them and now it's impossible to get work at either, but we could always use a few bodies. We will need a lot more if UPS becomes the McDonald's of the shipping industry. Working at UPS becomes the "if I get fired I can always work there but for less". [/QUOTE]
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