Deferred Delivery Coming

[shane1968]

In the year 2075 when drones or whatever is available - you’re location is one of the ground zero testing sites.

Shippers are already finding other 5 day a week delivery companies like food, tractor supply, and medical companies

 

[KearsargeCoop]

Shippers are already finding other 5 day a week delivery companies like food, tractor supply, and medical companies

Timing seems odd for them to go back to "trying" this.
Wonder if it's a ploy to try and force some of those 30 year drivers out.

 

[JustDeliverIt]

Timing seems odd for them to go back to "trying" this.
Wonder if it's a ploy to try and force some of those 30 year drivers out.

Especially when they have shunned large shippers for small and medium size businesses where they make more. These accounts should be a premium in their eyes and now they are going to lose them as well. Doesn’t make sense.

 

[vvv]

Timing seems odd for them to go back to "trying" this.
Wonder if it's a ploy to try and force some of those 30 year drivers out.

Fight fire with fire my friend.

Would you really want to be managing and dealing with a 30+ year veteran (assuming he has some nuts) being displaced periodically off his normal route and going out blind?
I'd wet the bed on them so bad if I were in that position that they'd be rethinking that move quickly.

See how fast everyone, whether you or others goes on the defensive and worries about the company and being "forced out".
Hell with that brother, you flip the script fast and think in a different way and make them worry about you and PAY for their poor decision making and have them looking like damn fools.

 

[muthatrucka]

Timing seems odd for them to go back to "trying" this.
Wonder if it's a ploy to try and force some of those 30 year drivers out.

Force? I have 27 and I'll leave next week if they will let me!

 

[KearsargeCoop]

Fight fire with fire my friend.

Would you really want to be managing and dealing with a 30+ year veteran (assuming he has some nuts) being displaced periodically off his normal route and going out blind?
I'd wet the bed on them so bad if I were in that position that they'd be rethinking that move quickly.

See how fast everyone, whether you or others goes on the defensive and worries about the company and being "forced out".
Hell with that brother, you flip the script fast and think in a different way and make them worry about you and PAY for their poor decision making and have them looking like damn fools.

I like it. You think like a driver. They think like an office stooge.

 

[vvv]

I like it. You think like a driver. They think like an office stooge.

I am a 30+ year driver my friend, and they would never consider that game with me as the outcome would be known well in advance.

 

[shane1968]

Timing seems odd for them to go back to "trying" this.
Wonder if it's a ploy to try and force some of those 30 year drivers out.

Why though?

 

[KearsargeCoop]

Why though?

Make room for more 22.4s, eliminate knowledge of the contract, knowledge of past practice...

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

I’m still waiting for driver facing cameras

Me too

 

[eats packages]

Timing seems odd for them to go back to "trying" this.
Wonder if it's a ploy to try and force some of those 30 year drivers out.

I can believe it.
This whole thing: overdispatching high seniority, cutting off dead days, underdispatching low drivers and laying them off. Makes no sense from a labor cost perspective UNLESS you are banking on people quitting the job, "early retirement" or otherwise.

I'd disagree about it being to replace older folks though, it's more likely just a primal attempt to meet some # before the next quarter.

 

[reallypodcustomer]

I can believe it.
This whole thing: overdispatching high seniority, cutting off dead days, underdispatching low drivers and laying them off. Makes no sense from a labor cost perspective UNLESS you are banking on people quitting the job, "early retirement" or otherwise.

I'd disagree about it being to replace older folks though, it's more likely just a primal attempt to meet some # before the next quarter.

I can confirm this is happening. I am a UPS customer and we started getting missed pickups. They told us we were on Rural Deferred Delivery. No warning. We pay every week for daily pickup.

 

[burrheadd]

After the strike UPS going to be a whole different company business to business only Get rid of all the unprofitable resis and rural routes

 

[burrheadd]

I can confirm this is happening. I am a UPS customer and we started getting missed pickups. They told us we were on Rural Deferred Delivery. No warning. We pay every week for daily pickup.

Maybe you can get fedx ground to stop by
Lmao

 

[reallypodcustomer]

Maybe you can get fedx ground to stop by
Lmao

At this point we might drive our packages into USPS just on principle.

 

[burrheadd]

At this point we might drive our packages into USPS just on principle.

That’ll show’em
Lol

 

[Pullman Brown]

I can believe it.
This whole thing: overdispatching high seniority, cutting off dead days, underdispatching low drivers and laying them off. Makes no sense from a labor cost perspective UNLESS you are banking on people quitting the job, "early retirement" or otherwise.

I'd disagree about it being to replace older folks though, it's more likely just a primal attempt to meet some # before the next quarter.

Follow the money! That’s all they care about!

 

[I have NOT been lurking]

I can confirm this is happening. I am a UPS customer and we started getting missed pickups. They told us we were on Rural Deferred Delivery. No warning. We pay every week for daily pickup.

ing hell. The S stands for at this point

 

[Cowboy Mac]

ing hell. The S stands for at this point

The S stands for stupid.

 

[qdg2]

My pkg was deferred just this week. From Sat to Tuesday. Simple e-mail said it was "re-scheduled".....I do live in the "country".