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<blockquote data-quote="Overpaid Union Thug" data-source="post: 1459898" data-attributes="member: 198"><p>They made me use a helper on a rural peak route last year and it looks like it will happen this year too. I absolutely positively cannot stand dealing with helpers. If I'm on a dense residential route and can pick them up and drop them off without losing more than a few minutes of drive time each way then <u>MAYBE</u> it's worth the effort. Those types of routes are stuffed like an obese man on Thanksgiving Day though and the helper ends up spending half the day waiting for me to sort through piles of packages before I can find the next stop. They usually can't help either because there is not enough room for both of us and they don't how to sort. And it doesn't help that dispatchers are too lazy to split the sequence number ranges so that no two package have the same SPA number. </p><p></p><p>By the time we've taken a big enough chunk out of the load for me to sort quickly while they deliver it's almost time to break away and drop them off. I've had some good helpers and mostly bad. But in either case they usually don't save the amount of time that the corporate overlords think they do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Overpaid Union Thug, post: 1459898, member: 198"] They made me use a helper on a rural peak route last year and it looks like it will happen this year too. I absolutely positively cannot stand dealing with helpers. If I'm on a dense residential route and can pick them up and drop them off without losing more than a few minutes of drive time each way then [U]MAYBE[/U] it's worth the effort. Those types of routes are stuffed like an obese man on Thanksgiving Day though and the helper ends up spending half the day waiting for me to sort through piles of packages before I can find the next stop. They usually can't help either because there is not enough room for both of us and they don't how to sort. And it doesn't help that dispatchers are too lazy to split the sequence number ranges so that no two package have the same SPA number. By the time we've taken a big enough chunk out of the load for me to sort quickly while they deliver it's almost time to break away and drop them off. I've had some good helpers and mostly bad. But in either case they usually don't save the amount of time that the corporate overlords think they do. [/QUOTE]
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