ContainmentIssue
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Just thought it was interesting that my Hub just started today calling all UPS stores around my area telling them that even if we do strike they'll still pick up the volume....ok.
Picking up volume while we strike
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ContainmentIssue
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Yeah I overheard the conversation and they just said it's business as usual we'll pick up everything and not to tell customers anything just let them keep shipping
Wally
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Plenty of non union workers, to process a few pieces, plus RTW drivers to deliver. They are non union too.
Will the UPS store not alert customers?
Thebrownblob
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I’m in a right to work state and there isn’t one nonunion driver.
ContainmentIssue
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Are they expecting to contract enough feeders across the country to move this stuff? And it seems to me they just want to keep taking the customer's money and not alert them to delays or non deliveries until it actually happens.
Johney
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Who will fly them?
PT Car Washer
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Truck them like they do on Holidays.
browned_out
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Plenty of independent truckers out there to pull any kind of load. Didn’t Ups buy Coyote Logistics? Seems this would be something they would try to leverage during a strike. Still remains to be seen if they could even unload/load any trailers without part timers
Thebrownblob
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They will undoubtably be able to find some people to pull those loads and it will pile up at the giant hubs, and become a nightmare. People don’t even realize how many small centers are all over the country out of the way who’s going to take those? Going to unload those if he’s going to deliver all of that stuff in the network? It’s a logistical nightmare.
Johney
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NDA’s?
Thebrownblob
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Eastbound and down, loaded up and Truckin.
PT Car Washer
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2nd day air. Not all NDA cross the country. A lot of air only goes a few hundred miles.
My ups store asked if we were going to strike, I said the consensus is we are not, they said they haven't heard anything from our center about any plans or talk about changing anything.....I'm sure we won't be privy to any talk anyway.
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Carol is gonna use swifty Swift
Brown287
Im not the Mail Man!
Actually consolidating as much pickup volume to the UPS stores is smart. It will best allow them to leverage the resources they do have. As far as coyotes, just read online how squeezed out independent truckers are in this economy. We all know UPS will be throwing wads of money at them to insure that volume keeps on moving.
JustDeliverIt
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Friend of mine has a UPS store on his route. He asked last week if they heard anything, only reply they had was business as usual. The company has a contingency plan if there is a strike. Told the owner of the store that.
Commercial Inside Release
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First thing the company will do... Suspend commitment times, of course.
catstalking
ie qt
we can deliver what's in the system, slowly
continuing to pickup is lunacy, just getting enough drivers to make runs to the package centers alone is kinda daunting
there are so many unpredictable factors that could destroy an adhoc network like that; even the things I can think of answer for just ends up being more wasted time in the end
continuing to pickup is lunacy, just getting enough drivers to make runs to the package centers alone is kinda daunting
there are so many unpredictable factors that could destroy an adhoc network like that; even the things I can think of answer for just ends up being more wasted time in the end
catstalking
ie qt
the easiest thing to replace are the package drivers, replacing feeder drivers, shifters, and their accumulated knowledge is impossible
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