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<blockquote data-quote="ups hero" data-source="post: 1160485" data-attributes="member: 44055"><p><strong>my theory on miscounted pkgs.</strong></p><p></p><p>Ok, now this is just a theory, so if I'm wrong please don't shoot me. When I worked in a medical warehouse we shipped roughly 350-400 pkgs daily for ups. At the end of the day we would close out the ups system and print the Eod paper in which the driver would scan as you know when you do your pickup. Ok, now here is where my theory kicks in. Most of the time the paper would get scanned with the Diad letting the ups system know how many packages they were taking. Sometimes they wouldn't scan it. Now, if they don't scan it, how does ups know how many packages were picked up. That is just 1 pickup. What if around the u.s. they did this all the time. Wouldn't this make the numbers way off??</p><p></p><p>As for a bulk stop saying 1 of 1 when there is 200. Here is a good reason insurance is high. We would get orders at my warehouse throughout the day for the same hospital all the time. I'm talking like an order for 1 nose clip. It would get packed and shipped and then like 20 minutes later an order for the same hospital would order 10 nose clips. The hospital would not allow us to combine orders. Each order had to be packed separately. It's a waste of money. Shipping was like $12 for a .25 nose clip. Lol.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ups hero, post: 1160485, member: 44055"] [b]my theory on miscounted pkgs.[/b] Ok, now this is just a theory, so if I'm wrong please don't shoot me. When I worked in a medical warehouse we shipped roughly 350-400 pkgs daily for ups. At the end of the day we would close out the ups system and print the Eod paper in which the driver would scan as you know when you do your pickup. Ok, now here is where my theory kicks in. Most of the time the paper would get scanned with the Diad letting the ups system know how many packages they were taking. Sometimes they wouldn't scan it. Now, if they don't scan it, how does ups know how many packages were picked up. That is just 1 pickup. What if around the u.s. they did this all the time. Wouldn't this make the numbers way off?? As for a bulk stop saying 1 of 1 when there is 200. Here is a good reason insurance is high. We would get orders at my warehouse throughout the day for the same hospital all the time. I'm talking like an order for 1 nose clip. It would get packed and shipped and then like 20 minutes later an order for the same hospital would order 10 nose clips. The hospital would not allow us to combine orders. Each order had to be packed separately. It's a waste of money. Shipping was like $12 for a .25 nose clip. Lol. [/QUOTE]
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