In 1985/6 I was on special assignment in Hong Kong to assist in UPS's international expansion in Asia. UPS aquired a local Hong Kong courier company that delivered international letters and small packages for PUROLATOR. When UPS aquired the local company, Purolator no longer had service to or from Hong Kong, UPS had now become the carrier for those packages.
One day the couriers wore Purolator uniforms and the next day they wore the UPS browns. I was responsible for planning the new UPS Center's operating plan.
The operation was unlike any operation I had ever seen at UPS. First of all, the couriers were dispatched twice a day. They would start work at 8:00 am, sort the morning deliveries whioch arrived during the night from various aircraft landing in Hong Kong. They would deliver their area and return to the Center with any morning pickups for lunch and wait for their afternoon dispatch, which would be arriving from the airport by 1:00pm, and be dispatched again for their afternoon deliveries and pickups.
One other thing I forgot to mention is there were 23 couriers and only 3 vehickes(small vans). in this Center. 20 of the couriers used the subway to get to/from their area and walked off their deliveries and pickups. Naturally the vast majority of the deliveries and pickups were UPS letters and small packages.
I spent 10 months working in Hong Kong, the most interesting 10 months I ever worked for UPS, including the 2 1/2 years i worked in France for UPS. Talk about eating strange food.....WOW!!!!
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