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<blockquote data-quote="Ricochet1a" data-source="post: 1015331" data-attributes="member: 22880"><p>Supposedly... that is all going to be ironed out once DRA is universally established. (Begin laugh track). </p><p></p><p>Under fully implemented and realized DRA (2 or so years out) , there will be delivery routes (with one number) and pickup routes (with another). Couriers that are to be out doing both, will log in with a delivery route number, perform ONLY deliveries, then when completed, either take a break, or start doing pickups AFTER having logged in with the separate pickup route number. This way the productivity of each "side" of the equation can be measured separately, and start and end times for each side of the equation can be adjusted accordingly. </p><p></p><p>When I was a Courier (part-time), they wanted to do this very thing when I did both deliveries and pickups during peak - didn't work. There were pickups that had to be done during the delivery cycle - meaning that the DADS would come across to the pickup route and not the deivery route I was logged into. Many pickups were missed, since dispatch didn't have time to go through the DADS for the pickup route (which had no one logged into it) and manually reassign it to the delivery route in the area. </p><p></p><p>The whole goal, is to minimize time for deliveries, then turn around and minimize time spent in pickup modes. So what they are really going to try to find out, is just how long of an unpaid split they can force on current combined routes, without risking too many service failures (cost benefit analysis of minimizing service failures along with wages paid to Couriers). </p><p></p><p>After that, they want to know how many full-time positions they can convert to part-time positions, after the shift over of deferred volume takes place - again, right around the time DRA is fully implemented Express wide.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ricochet1a, post: 1015331, member: 22880"] Supposedly... that is all going to be ironed out once DRA is universally established. (Begin laugh track). Under fully implemented and realized DRA (2 or so years out) , there will be delivery routes (with one number) and pickup routes (with another). Couriers that are to be out doing both, will log in with a delivery route number, perform ONLY deliveries, then when completed, either take a break, or start doing pickups AFTER having logged in with the separate pickup route number. This way the productivity of each "side" of the equation can be measured separately, and start and end times for each side of the equation can be adjusted accordingly. When I was a Courier (part-time), they wanted to do this very thing when I did both deliveries and pickups during peak - didn't work. There were pickups that had to be done during the delivery cycle - meaning that the DADS would come across to the pickup route and not the deivery route I was logged into. Many pickups were missed, since dispatch didn't have time to go through the DADS for the pickup route (which had no one logged into it) and manually reassign it to the delivery route in the area. The whole goal, is to minimize time for deliveries, then turn around and minimize time spent in pickup modes. So what they are really going to try to find out, is just how long of an unpaid split they can force on current combined routes, without risking too many service failures (cost benefit analysis of minimizing service failures along with wages paid to Couriers). After that, they want to know how many full-time positions they can convert to part-time positions, after the shift over of deferred volume takes place - again, right around the time DRA is fully implemented Express wide. [/QUOTE]
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