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<blockquote data-quote="kingOFchester" data-source="post: 1214214" data-attributes="member: 11246"><p>2012 21 business days between Thanksgiving and Christmas. </p><p>2013 17 business days between Thanksgiving and Christmas.</p><p>That means that there was 23% more time last year between Thanksgiving and Christmas.</p><p></p><p>UPS predicts peak volume to be up 8% this year.</p><p></p><p>23% less time to do 8% more work is an increase of over 30%.</p><p></p><p>Ups is hiring the same amount of seasonal hires as it did in 2011 and 2012.</p><p></p><p>Here is the plan:</p><p><em><span style="color: #0000ff"><span style="font-size: 12px">"UPS executives said that this year's late Thanksgiving holiday, Nov. 28, will be a challenge. Cramming holiday shipments into fewer days could make the network run more efficiently</span></span>"</em></p><p>Could make the network run more efficiently??? And if not, then what?? Oh, thanks for "cramming". Will make my checks look all that much better!!</p><p></p><p>Throw in a major storm and we are all friend'd.</p><p></p><p>All the info listed above can be found here:</p><p><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ups-more-doubles-3q-profit-121827804.html" target="_blank">UPS more than doubles 3Q profit - Yahoo Finance</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kingOFchester, post: 1214214, member: 11246"] 2012 21 business days between Thanksgiving and Christmas. 2013 17 business days between Thanksgiving and Christmas. That means that there was 23% more time last year between Thanksgiving and Christmas. UPS predicts peak volume to be up 8% this year. 23% less time to do 8% more work is an increase of over 30%. Ups is hiring the same amount of seasonal hires as it did in 2011 and 2012. Here is the plan: [I][COLOR=#0000ff][SIZE=3]"UPS executives said that this year's late Thanksgiving holiday, Nov. 28, will be a challenge. Cramming holiday shipments into fewer days could make the network run more efficiently[/SIZE][/COLOR]"[/I] Could make the network run more efficiently??? And if not, then what?? Oh, thanks for "cramming". Will make my checks look all that much better!! Throw in a major storm and we are all friend'd. All the info listed above can be found here: [URL="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ups-more-doubles-3q-profit-121827804.html"]UPS more than doubles 3Q profit - Yahoo Finance[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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