Packages loaded incorrectly causing missed service.

[Nothing by 1030 anymore]

there are no effective and repeatable methods to decrease misloads

we keep trying to convince ourselves that there is, but there is zero data to back up any method will have an effect for more than a couple days

the fact is, people are just bad with reading and comprehension while they're working

the best way i've seen is to load by address, but that's incredibly inefficient; it's cheaper just to eat the missed pieces (not NDA) or have drivers run them if they're on-area

Oh but there is a way to decrease misloads. More time, more employees, reasonable performance demands.

 

[TearsInRain]

And who decides that, you?

it depends on the individual, it's not an IE thing at all

This is just me personally but when flow down the belt is reasonable, and management leaves me alone, I literally never misload. I'm in my own focused little world until the shift ends. I'm kind of OCD, and since I drive too take alot of pride in doing my best to send the driver out with a good day.

When flow is impossible to keep up with and requires me to stack and handle packages multiple times I'll have a misload or 4. When management hands me a 4 page cut at the very end in the middle of this and starts talking to me, knocking me out of focus, misloads happen while trying to keep up with the abomination coming down the belt and listen to their bull how I shouldn't stack something like that.

Also the faster the flow, the slower I work. Safety first, with packages stacking up, I need to slow down to pay closer attention and where I'm stepping. Stacks get bigger and bigger

Misloads cost so much money I'd think a small incentive to avoid them would work out in the end but who knows.

1. no incentive would ever pay for itself in misload reduction

2. everyone misloads for different reasons, what works for you would almost certainly not work for many others, and vice versa

Oh but there is a way to decrease misloads. More time, more employees, reasonable performance demands.

prove it

i won't hold my breath

 

[TearsInRain]

how long were you a loader?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Left.

20-30.

 

[MyTripisCut]

Just wondering, about how many stops/pieces y'all usually have around 2pm?

Around 2, usually 100 left for around 150. I'm not sorting all of that by the way, before a certain time to find misloads. Never have never will.

 

[Future]

Around 2, usually 100 left for around 150. I'm not sorting all of that by the way, before a certain time to find misloads. Never have never will.

They want our misleads in by 1 .....LOL....most times have just made a clear walk way by then

 

[MyTripisCut]

it depends on the individual, it's not an IE thing at all



1. no incentive would ever pay for itself in misload reduction

2. everyone misloads for different reasons, what works for you would almost certainly not work for many others, and vice versa

I will say, the misload scanners seem to have cut back on misloads in a pretty big way.

 

[Future]

I will say, the misload scanners seem to have cut back on misloads in a pretty big way.

Just started them 2weeks ago ...my loader was pretty good b4 them .... now it's slowing him down at least 20 mins 2 wrap ...SMH

 

[PT Car Washer]

Just started them 2weeks ago ...my loader was pretty good b4 them .... now it's slowing him down at least 20 mins 2 wrap ...SMH

The scanners have reduced misloads at my building but preload is starting 20 minutes earlier.

 

[burrheadd]

there are no effective and repeatable methods to decrease misloads

we keep trying to convince ourselves that there is, but there is zero data to back up any method will have an effect for more than a couple days

the fact is, people are just bad with reading and comprehension while they're working

the best way i've seen is to load by address, but that's incredibly inefficient; it's cheaper just to eat the missed pieces (not NDA) or have drivers run them if they're on-area

How about this genius

Slow the belt down

Have you studied how that works

SMH!!

And this guys a boss

 

[Analbumcover]

Excuse me for asking as I haven't drove package in a few years but, don't you verify your air count before you leave.

No. Mist of it is loaded in the truck.

It varies at our center. On Mondays all airs are already loaded but throughout the rest of the week, the air car arrives from the airport just a few minutes before driver start time so there's a mix of NDAs that came in on feeders which are already on the truck, and those that come in on the air car (mostly businesses). If the airs are 1000s (businesses) I'll check them right before I go, but if the rest of the airs are resi NDAs (which they were in this case), they're often scattered throughout different shelves.

They happened to be scattered on all the wrong shelves.
I'm guessing this is how things are at centers which aren't too far from a major airport.

 

[TearsInRain]

How about this genius

Slow the belt down

Have you studied how that works

SMH!!

And this guys a boss

slow the belt down, the primary jams up and you have a breakdown or package crush

simply lower production way down to compensate and the employees stop paying attention and zone out completely

do you even think through the you say?

 

[km3]

slow the belt down, the primary jams up and you have a breakdown or package crush

That kind of thing only happens when one belt is getting completely blasted.

simply lower production way down to compensate and the employees stop paying attention and zone out completely

Already happening. Management isn't happy no matter what, so why try? Show up and get paid. That's all this place is.

 

[km3]

That kind of thing only happens when one belt is getting completely blasted.

My bad. I was talking about slowing down the primary belts. I work in a boxline building, not belt to car. Even so, I don't see why the primary couldn't be slowed in a belt to car building either, thus allowing you to slow the final belt down a bit.

 

[Jkloc420]

The scanners have reduced misloads at my building but preload is starting 20 minutes earlier.

the scanners do decrease misloads but i have gained an extra 3 hours a week

 

[Raw]

Go through every pkg before 3pm ( you get paid for it, about 15 min ) , send in misload message then after your route or if you can sooner, deliver it! BINGO!

 

[TearsInRain]

My bad. I was talking about slowing down the primary belts. I work in a boxline building, not belt to car. Even so, I don't see why the primary couldn't be slowed in a belt to car building either, thus allowing you to slow the final belt down a bit.

the primary belts are set to a corporate PE speed; you'd have better luck negotiating a new contract in a day than getting that changed

 

[Nothing by 1030 anymore]

the primary belts are set to a corporate PE speed; you'd have better luck negotiating a new contract in a day than getting that changed

Then continued service failures and damages it is

 

[StoptheAct1212]

If you find a package in a area its not supposed to be... send it in as misload...
Either your going to get yelled at, or the problem may get fixxed..
Most likely you will get yelled at for sending in a misload of your own work... but frustrate us, let it be heard and on record

 

[PT Car Washer]

the scanners do decrease misloads but i have gained an extra 3 hours a week

Sounds like a win win for everyone.