How Bad Will Peak Be?

[NC man]

The new E star system being implemented on Saturday. And eventually full time in early 2022. Will set up your route like DRA used to. It eliminates loops, changes your general territory daily based on volume. And send on calls to you based on how close In vicinity you are. If it actually works, it will have you doing your P1 up until noon, then doing a fair amount of P2. Equally distributed. Unlike now, where were all doing 75-95 P2 a day.

Set up like DRA? They still don’t realize how bad DRA was?

 

[SFFX]

So i never got DRA because it couldnt figure out the maps in my zip. Stayed on SRA, so in 5 years of that not working we are going to another stupid system. So much wasted money.

 

[59 Dano]

A shameful end to the legacy company Fred built. Failure everywhere you look…up mostly. That’s what happens when your management team is incompetent. Or even corrupt.

Are you one of those guys who accepted no excuses for late freight, but then blamed late freight when customers were unhappy with your service failures? I mean, if there's no excuse for lates, then there's no excuse for lates.

 

[Cactus]

Are you one of those guys who accepted no excuses for late freight, but then blamed late freight when customers were unhappy with your service failures? I mean, if there's no excuse for lates, then there's no excuse for lates.

Hope he tells you it’s none of your business.

 

[Fred's Myth]

Are you one of those guys who accepted no excuses for late freight, but then blamed late freight when customers were unhappy with your service failures? I mean, if there's no excuse for lates, then there's no excuse for lates.

Service failures? I am not familiar with that term. Must be something other couriers did.

 

[floridays]

150 during peak
Lol

I got 1,000 dollars says he drives at minimun 5 times the amount of miles you do to get off 150 stops.
Ask the guy (@McFeely) how many UPS drivers cover his area, I bet that is three at minimum.
I'm speaking minimum.

 

[floridays]

Good riddance to them. I don’t need idiots who don’t care about infecting co workers. Clean up the collective gene pool.

Seriously, do you believe that .
If you do, get the vax, and don't worry about being infected.
You leftists are precious.

 

[floridays]

Yes, but I'm sure there are a dozen people here with sure-fire, can't-miss solutions to handling the upcoming surge when most locations are at or near peak levels of volume already.

Is Fedex still a premium provider of service?

Do they (FedEx) still differentiate themselves from the competion on a promise of service?

Is peak volume from the providers standpoint a reason to absolve the providers responsibility to provide the promised, service?

Is "peak" volume the new norm and FedEx cannot service normal business as it exists currently and in the recent past?

How has management failed so miserably?

 

[Working4the1%]

You retiring?

I could..fired and retired two different thing. VAX retire. No VAX fired

 

[floridays]

I could..fired and retired two different thing. VAX retire. No VAX fired

You like that don't you.

Got news for you dude, many won't bend to tyrants, you're supposed safety is just that, supposed.

You cannot control that.

Keep pushing.

 

[El Morado Diablo]

Is Fedex still a premium provider of service?

Do they (FedEx) still differentiate themselves from the competion on a promise of service?

Is peak volume from the providers standpoint a reason to absolve the providers responsibility to provide the promised, service?

Is "peak" volume the new norm and FedEx cannot service normal business as it exists currently and in the recent past?

How has management failed so miserably?

Our Sr Mgr has quit talking about service.
The new phrase being used is, "We are selling space on a plane."

That's a far cry from the old slogan - "The only thing we have to sell is service."

 

[burrheadd]

I got 1,000 dollars says he drives at minimun 5 times the amount of miles you do to get off 150 stops.
Ask the guy (@McFeely) how many UPS drivers cover his area, I bet that is three at minimum.
I'm speaking minimum.

Not uncommon for a route with 200 miles to go out with 150 stops during peak

Go ahead and PayPal me that $1000
because I’am guessing whoever you’re talking about doesent drive 1000 miles a day
You seem more and more like a blow hard

 

[Over70irregs]

Cash check, invest, retire early.

 

[Working4the1%]

You like that don't you.

Got news for you dude, many won't bend to tyrants, you're supposed safety is just that, supposed.

You cannot control that.

Keep pushing.

Leper’s will be escorted out …

 

[Maui]

This.
Did you hear this from somewhere or are these your thoughts?
Anyone else hear anything yet on how response is going to be handled for peak?
I ask because initially my manager said there was no way we were going to run response during peak,
but today he brought it up again and kind of changed his tune abit like hes not sure, it depends on upper management and he hasnt heard anything yet.

The sunrise sort will continue through peak. The IND sunrise sort supports RESPONSE. Many of these will get additional return flights for day sort/twilight. How that freight is handled at the stations in another story. That will be dependent on local or district decisions. There is no doubt much will be rolled to the following AM.

We were told money back guarantee gone on everything and 90 minutes additional time for FO shipments.
Everything else is out the window .

Effective Nov 1. And 60 minutes for PO except current 1630 commits.

Last I heard about it at my station is that we plan on rolling Response freight each afternoon. It will go on road the following morning.

I don’t know what other stations are doing, but we are simply too short handed to run two waves.

I think lots of locations will start RESPONSE drivers around the projected downtime and launch all routes in the AM. I know some will roll it and have 2 sorts for the AM and launching with rollover and the P2 that comes in overnight and any early arrival to get them out as close to daybreak as possible with all routes. Then the 2nd would be the AM arrivals and RESPONSE people would start with them.

Others will run what they've basically been doing with RESPONSE.

The new E star system being implemented on Saturday. And eventually full time in early 2022. Will set up your route like DRA used to. It eliminates loops, changes your general territory daily based on volume. And send on calls to you based on how close In vicinity you are. If it actually works, it will have you doing your P1 up until noon, then doing a fair amount of P2. Equally distributed. Unlike now, where were all doing 75-95 P2 a day.

ESTAR has been around for 2 years. The first runs were October 2019 and 12 alpha locations launched earlier this year on SDR and there are plans for some alpha weekday locations before peak in non-response markets.

Saying setup like DRA is correct in that it routes and provides a stop number, but the underlying tech is really different. DRA maps were last updated in 2013. ESTAR is much more recent and updated. DRA was constrained with 1030 commits, but the ESTAR algorithm can in incorporate all commit times as well as customer hours (Wal-Mart, Men's Warehouse, etc) and route within that window to make service. FO, pups, extended areas can all be done. Military bases and some universities might have to be excluded. The current algorithm does not support stations working in multiple time zones.

It is critical to run in order for 3 reasons. 1 - validate the plan and make improvements (generally those routes with failures tend to deviate much more from the ESTAR output. 2 - customers will soon be given a window to expect their delivery. 3 - pups will be assigned based on when you're planned to be in the area and it would suck to backtrack to where you should be.

Like everything it helps to have a better engineer. Needing to be out late just takes an adjustment to the end time. It isn't perfect and nothing can replace the knowledge of great couriers, but it does work to route everything and reduces miles and usually the number of routes.

 

[MAKAVELI]

Not uncommon for a route with 200 miles to go out with 150 stops during peak

Go ahead and PayPal me that $1000
because I’am guessing whoever you’re talking about doesent drive 1000 miles a day
You seem more and more like a blow hard

Comparing a UPS route to a FedEx route is apples and oranges. In general yes UPS routes do more stops but in a much more condensed area. I would say we run more on time commits than UPS in a larger area and is a different animal than a UPS route. Although that's about to change quite a bit soon.

 

[floridays]

Leper’s will be escorted out …

How about fully vaxxed that spread?

I don't sweat it.
By statistics, by numbers, I don't die should I get it.
By statistics, no age group dies at high rates including those with comorbidities.

In the same mannner you deliver

Leper’s will be escorted out …

I hope you are escorted out, sheet covered from your fully vaxxed.
You have no regard for other's, I have the same for you.

 

[floridays]

Not uncommon for a route with 200 miles to go out with 150 stops during peak

Go ahead and PayPal me that $1000
because I’am guessing whoever you’re talking about doesent drive 1000 miles a day
You seem more and more like a blow hard

Yeah it is uncommon for a UPS route to go out with 200 miles, it is the definition of an uncommon UPS route. The common UPS route covers how many miles? Any package car driver can respond.
How many miles do you drive each day? @McFeely agreed that he covers at minimum 3 UPS routes, those three UPS routes most likely service 400 or more stops compared to his 150 with his triple miles.

No blowhard here, I'm sure at @McFeely 's station extended routes go out with as many miles and stops as well but they are not the common route, the are extended rural, miles to and miles back.
You clowns aren't superhuman and do not defy time.

Screw yourself country club

 

[Serf]

So how’s that supposed to “work” out in extended areas?

I don’t know, I’m not a manager or engineer.

 

[Cactus]

I don’t know, I’m not a manager or engineer.

Then again neither do the managers or engineers.