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<blockquote data-quote="Maui" data-source="post: 5034911" data-attributes="member: 45037"><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Effective Nov 1. And 60 minutes for PO except current 1630 commits.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Others will run what they've basically been doing with RESPONSE. </p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maui, post: 5034911, member: 45037"] 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. Effective Nov 1. And 60 minutes for PO except current 1630 commits. 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. 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. [/QUOTE]
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