Paperless Invoicing will soon make their job obsolete.
As for our International Volume, there is a correlation between our volume and the value of the US Dollar with Small Package Volume as most of the volume is export in nature.
The lower the dollar, the higher the volume, vice versa. At one point the dollar was at a low, but notice that the last month it's been on a tear.
Competition is fierce on import volume, with other carriers cuthroat on even intra-country shipments as UKGuy mentioned a while back. That combined with the nature of import shipments generally lead to larger items that would go SCS. You don't have people in China sending eBay or retail shipments to the United States. You do have the reverse happening.
ODC has nothing do do with imports, except a very few that have to be returned.
I did ODC for eight years, and what made it a pointless job was that the various Customs Departments accepted such a low standard of performance. Paperless Invoicing further attenuates the connection between actual invoices and the "customs invoice", but Worldship (etc.) "invoices" were already, pretty uniformly, garbage, so what was the point?
Anyway, we had 5 ODC, plus one on disability, when we added two more about 9/07, making 8. Which we never had the business for. But five, yes. One went back driving, one of the new ones was dispatched back to the small sort, two were redeployed to Revenue Recovery audit "temporarily" and the one back from disability is probably going to be redeployed as well. So, 4. Mostly lower volume.
