Home
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe UPS Forum
UPS Discussions
For package car loaders: has peak started where you are? How has it been?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Bagels" data-source="post: 1062239" data-attributes="member: 43436"><p>The worst peak season I ever experienced was my first - 2000. That was the year e-commerce took off among consumers, and e-retailers embraced FedEx Ground (which had just re-branded from RPS Ground). Of course, FedEx Ground couldn't handle the volume and therefore it was dumped on us... Several times I clocked-in at 9:30PM and did not clock out until 9:30AM the following morning. 12 years later, the volume's grown... but instead of having worn-out drop-bay trailers -- with clunky, inoperable rollers -- we now have retractable, power rollers. And instead of having sorters & preloaders who based their jobs upon memorization, we now have standard PAL labels that take away the guess work. Sure, there's more packages, but we'll never have the piles and piles of misplaced packages scattered around the building as we once did. </p><p></p><p>The only thing that makes peak bad is the expectations. Instead of unloading 500-750 packages per hour, we're now expected to unload 1500-2000. Instead of loading 150 packages per hour, we're now expected to load 300 or more (often running out of space near the end of the sort). I'm not saying these expectations are unrealistic... just what makes it more difficult.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bagels, post: 1062239, member: 43436"] The worst peak season I ever experienced was my first - 2000. That was the year e-commerce took off among consumers, and e-retailers embraced FedEx Ground (which had just re-branded from RPS Ground). Of course, FedEx Ground couldn't handle the volume and therefore it was dumped on us... Several times I clocked-in at 9:30PM and did not clock out until 9:30AM the following morning. 12 years later, the volume's grown... but instead of having worn-out drop-bay trailers -- with clunky, inoperable rollers -- we now have retractable, power rollers. And instead of having sorters & preloaders who based their jobs upon memorization, we now have standard PAL labels that take away the guess work. Sure, there's more packages, but we'll never have the piles and piles of misplaced packages scattered around the building as we once did. The only thing that makes peak bad is the expectations. Instead of unloading 500-750 packages per hour, we're now expected to unload 1500-2000. Instead of loading 150 packages per hour, we're now expected to load 300 or more (often running out of space near the end of the sort). I'm not saying these expectations are unrealistic... just what makes it more difficult. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe UPS Forum
UPS Discussions
For package car loaders: has peak started where you are? How has it been?
Top