Amazon contractor delivered 1byone.com package on Friday

[Richard Harrow]

I hope you are just joking and don't think that is what would actually happen. If UPS did lose Amazon they would just lay off a bunch of people / combine routes and things would still be a cluster friend. I don't know what UPS was like pre 1970's but when I started in 71 it was a cluster friend and it will be forever. Its just the way they like to operate.

I'm very serious.

Amazon is maybe 2% of our total volume but 90% of our headaches during peak.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I'm very serious.

Amazon is maybe 2% of our total volume but 90% of our headaches during peak.

Amazon is closer to 7% of our total volume.

 

[Richard Harrow]

We handled 4.7 billion packages in 2015 according to the UPS pressroom.

We got roughly 30% of Amazons 600 million in 2015 (180,000,000).

Mathematics will show you theyre roughly 3.83% of our volume. No, not 2%, but certainly not 7% either.

So for those of us who pull legitimate routes (you can see yourself out now, Upstate), the difference of 3.8% on a 300 piece route is 12 pieces. Anyone think UPS is going to start panicking over missing 12 pieces per car? I dont.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

We handled 4.7 billion packages in 2015 according to the UPS pressroom.

We got roughly 30% of Amazons 600 million in 2015 (180,000,000).

Mathematics will show you theyre roughly 3.83% of our volume. No, not 2%, but certainly not 7% either.

So for those of us who pull legitimate routes (you can see yourself out now, Upstate), the difference of 3.8% on a 300 piece route is 12 pieces. Anyone think UPS is going to start panicking over missing 12 pieces per car? I dont.

3.8℅ less packages = 10%less routes.

UPS math.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

We handled 4.7 billion packages in 2015 according to the UPS pressroom.

We got roughly 30% of Amazons 600 million in 2015 (180,000,000).

Mathematics will show you theyre roughly 3.83% of our volume. No, not 2%, but certainly not 7% either.

So for those of us who pull legitimate routes (you can see yourself out now, Upstate), the difference of 3.8% on a 300 piece route is 12 pieces. Anyone think UPS is going to start panicking over missing 12 pieces per car? I dont.

Of the 400 pkgs I delivered today at least 50-75 were Amazon.

 

[Richard Harrow]

Of the 400 pkgs I delivered today at least 50-75 were Amazon.

Of the 1300 packages our Barnes and Noble van delivered today, at least 0 were Amazon.

 

[Richard Harrow]

3.8℅ less packages = 10%less routes.

UPS math.

Fortunately for us as drivers, there's ORION now. They're so obsessed with us being unefficiently efficient that they're forced to roll the routes.

Split car rolled on my area today (yes, a split on a Monday) and us three regulars maybe a 7.8 planned day.

 

[brownsugar]

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[onehandsolo]

That's with no benefits supply your own vehicle and gas. Plus you pay double on your fica and Medicare taxes.

 

[oldngray]

That's with no benefits supply your own vehicle and gas. Plus you pay double on your fica and Medicare taxes.

Yeah but they will sucker people who don't read all the fine print.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Yeah but they will sucker people who don't read all the fine print.

I wonder about liability insurance?

 

[oldngray]

I wonder about liability insurance?

Amazon will make the drivers pay for packages. Another cost saving for them.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Amazon will make the drivers pay for packages. Another cost saving for them.

And how about car insurance if you get into an accident?

 

[Rick Ross]

They've already had a lawsuit filed by their drivers.

Delivery Drivers Sue Amazon, Alleging Violation of Labor Laws

 

[rod]

I'm very serious.

Amazon is maybe 2% of our total volume but 90% of our headaches during peak.

All I can say is be careful what you wish for. Fewer packages = fewer jobs. Its that simple.

 

[rod]

Fortunately for us as drivers, there's ORION now. They're so obsessed with us being unefficiently efficient that they're forced to roll the routes.

Split car rolled on my area today (yes, a split on a Monday) and us three regulars maybe a 7.8 planned day.

So in the real world it was 9 and a half?

 

[Covemastah]

I thought I'd lose my job when LL bean left ,,, lol

 

[oldngray]

I thought I'd lose my job when LL bean left ,,, lol

Wasn't it Fingerhut that doomed UPS?

 

[Covemastah]

Wasn't it Fingerhut that doomed UPS?

Lol,,,, I hated those things

 

[clean hairy]

And how about car insurance if you get into an accident?

You are obligated to inform you insurance that you are using the vehicle for commercial use, otherwise they could deny a claim based on the original application for insurance where it was stated the vehicie wod be used for personal use.
Be a VERY good idea to raise the liability limits as well!