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Delivering Ground this Saturday the 14th
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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1238293" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>I have already made the decision for myself that, next week, I will start strategically rolling stops each day in order to maximize the effectiveness of the 60 hours that I have available. My total number of missed stops will be less in one week if I work five 12-hour days than if I work four 13-hour days and am limited to 8 hours by Friday.</p><p> </p><p>I have customers with long driveways or who live at the end of long dead-end roads that are daily Amazon Prime or Surepost customers. If they only have one package and it is ground, I will roll it until the following day when they are almost guranteed to get another one and in many cases save several minutes per day by doing so. A few minutes here and there throughout the day can add up to hours pretty quickly.</p><p> </p><p>Its not my preference to do business this way but there really is no other choice. We are screwed here. There isnt any help, its only going to get worse, and our peak season "plan" is such an abysmal failure that the time has come to start performing triage on the stops in order to minimize the damage. There is nothing more frustrating and demoralizing to me than having to do what I did last night; driving <em>right past</em> houses that I had packages for on my way back to the building because I was on fumes for DOT hours.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1238293, member: 14668"] I have already made the decision for myself that, next week, I will start strategically rolling stops each day in order to maximize the effectiveness of the 60 hours that I have available. My total number of missed stops will be less in one week if I work five 12-hour days than if I work four 13-hour days and am limited to 8 hours by Friday. I have customers with long driveways or who live at the end of long dead-end roads that are daily Amazon Prime or Surepost customers. If they only have one package and it is ground, I will roll it until the following day when they are almost guranteed to get another one and in many cases save several minutes per day by doing so. A few minutes here and there throughout the day can add up to hours pretty quickly. Its not my preference to do business this way but there really is no other choice. We are screwed here. There isnt any help, its only going to get worse, and our peak season "plan" is such an abysmal failure that the time has come to start performing triage on the stops in order to minimize the damage. There is nothing more frustrating and demoralizing to me than having to do what I did last night; driving [I]right past[/I] houses that I had packages for on my way back to the building because I was on fumes for DOT hours. [/QUOTE]
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