BrownOnBrown
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I heard they are bringing casuals back march 15th, to do the Tuesday - Saturday shifts.
Casuals coming back march 15th?
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How can they do that? What happens to those routes on Monday?
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Cut.
So the work is added to other routes?
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Yuppers.
Think about it for a second. Where is this work coming from? This is not unlike advancing loads during Peak, except that there is no volume coming in on Monday to make up the difference.
Locally all of our loads are on property by 9am or so Saturday morning. If they were to start Saturday delivery here they would simply start unloading trailers until about 30 minutes before start time, with whatever left over run on Monday.
Jackburton
Gone Fish'n
Monday will be 60% of what it is now, the other 40% got ran on Saturday. Problem is until loads are pushed throughout the system, this is highly unprofitable, for the company that is.
Saturday's are actually better than Monday's in that you only deal with residential deliveries, only commercial stops are UPS stores. Only air is Saturday NDA, residential or commercial, no NDA savers.
Monday's are quite the opposite where management cuts so deep the time commitments for NDA, commercial delivers (cut routes means larger area of commercial) and pickup stops that come off of cuts routes.
You guys can come up with theories and whatnot all you want, this is how it actually is ran. I've been doing 6 days since this started last year.
Edit:
Your Monday route is already set up on Saturday. The commercial and anything else is placed on the truck that is already slated to run Monday. These packages are loaded Saturday with the Pal labels according to Monday's plan.
Saturday's are actually better than Monday's in that you only deal with residential deliveries, only commercial stops are UPS stores. Only air is Saturday NDA, residential or commercial, no NDA savers.
Monday's are quite the opposite where management cuts so deep the time commitments for NDA, commercial delivers (cut routes means larger area of commercial) and pickup stops that come off of cuts routes.
You guys can come up with theories and whatnot all you want, this is how it actually is ran. I've been doing 6 days since this started last year.
Edit:
Your Monday route is already set up on Saturday. The commercial and anything else is placed on the truck that is already slated to run Monday. These packages are loaded Saturday with the Pal labels according to Monday's plan.
Screw that 6 days a week, five is enough. Plus working Saturdays would mean I wouldn't have my regular bathroom and coffee stops.
Oh Shoot
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Not 6 days I've...u would work only 5 days. A tues thru sat shift. It would be a biddable position if im correct.
Jackburton
Gone Fish'n
You'd be surprised how much easier Saturdays are currently vs working Monday, if you were thinking about making a switch. I'm just speaking from the perspective of doing it 6 days. If I was forced to choose between the two, I'd do T-Sat. This is coming from a guy who swore off working Saturday as a regular day.
I got too much time in. They can't make me a Tuesday - Saturday driver. My wife doesn't work on the weekends and neither do I.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
They finally posted our bid sheet on Thursday and there were no T-S routes listed.
Oh Shoot
Well-Known Member
I would do a tues-sat shift. Get more business done on a monday vs a Saturday
I would only work a Saturday if it was a 6th punch.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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I would think that you would welcome working on Saturday. Much easier to post here while doing house calls.
Wally
BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
When did the Union renegotiate with the company?
The biggest problem is they didn't bid the routes as a Tuesday-Saturday. That's causing a big commotion here.
I thought casuals could only work in the Summer and during Peak.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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We use casuals all year long.
