I don’t think they can remain status quo. The Ground segment got absolutely obliterated in a lot of areas and hubs swamped. Add on to that God knows how much “fully integrated Smartpost” and it’s peak explosion...
It’s pretty funny really. Our building was sending drivers across state to help clean up the mess. They were offering up to $20 per stop above contracted pay to get contractors to help.
So did you cash in on the extra money?
Absolutely. Sent a driver and a runner. Cost me about $1400, cleared about $2000.
It was bad for Ground in my area also. I had a customer come up to me in a neighborhood one day last week asking about a Ground package that had gone out on the road three days in a row with no attempts. He showed me the updates on his phone. I felt bad for him, especially since it was signature required. I finally saw some FedEx Ground guys in his neighborhood early on the fourth day.
Winner winner chicken dinner! Lol.
Actually the winning part of that equation was that we only did 140 stops to get that money.
Totally agree. DRA is one example, GIGO
Wave dispatch. The preload will be going until noon. I’m wondering what the plan is for all the area that will be abandoned with the new e-commerce rate structure. I’ll be staffing way up to cash in on contingency again. I think they have the building capacity but they don’t have the staff to pull it off.
From the sounds of it, they didn’t have the ability at the hubs to run it all through this peak. That makes for multiple bottlenecks, first at the hub then at the stations.
I think a lot of contractors are going to bail with e-commerce rates. People will lose too much money and walk away. There’s a lot of open CSAs now and I expect there to be many more next year.
That's the last time I ever use FedEx....
That’s inexcusable. There is no reason someone should order a package on December 7 and still not have it yesterday, I don’t care how many snow storms happen. It could have been shipped from China itself faster.
He's counting on a bunch of contractors quitting abruptly. If they do it will probably be to their inability to get people to work for nothing. I wonder what makes him think that he can get people to work for nothing? ......Or keep the Teamsters out if he continues to grow in size and therefore becomes a bigger target.
Do you think there’s a point where X decides that THEY have the cost metrics wrong? Because they are wrong.
The problem is our systems breakdown when freight starts to roll over. They aren’t built for it. The failures snowball and it’s hard to dig back out. I delivered stuff on Christmas Eve that had a ship date of Dec. 2. The building I was helping was a complete disaster, they had no idea where anything was, I was digging through skids of stuff looking for more stops in the neighborhood I was cleaning up.
