jchimienti
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i've seen people mention small sort and i have searched any threads about this on this site and came up on nothing. what is small sort and if its your job what do you do?
Theres 3 parts to SS...First part is dumping where employees dumb nylon bags into a large bin....Second part is the SS sorters sorting those packages to a bin...Third part is the bagger bagging the packages in to another nylon bag putting a label on the bag and putting it on a belt to go back to the primary to be sorted to the pd it goes toi've seen people mention small sort and i have searched any threads about this on this site and came up on nothing. what is small sort and if its your job what do you do?
Primary is the primary sort isle..pd is primary direct..which is where most of the primary sort's volume is directed..you must work at a preload center im guessinI think the small sort is probably a little different everywhere depending on the size of your facility. I don't know what a primary or pd is.
Essentially small sorters take small packages and sort them into bags which are routed to a particular hub / center. The idea is that a large bag full of tiny packages is more efficient to handle than each individual package.
In my building the small sort consists off people to pull smalls off the belt then sort them into bins by zipcode. Then other people take the smalls out of the bins and load them into bags. Then they throw the bags onto the belt which are then loaded into trailers.
It's a cakewalk job but boring. I think all of our small sorters might be 22.3.
Primary is the primary sort isle..pd is primary direct..which is where most of the primary sort's volume is directed..you must work at a preload center im guessin
In the hubs the primary sort recieves flow from the unload then they sort that flow to the pd aka primary direct
What is small sort and if its your job what do you do?
Hehe- your terminology is naive.
Also, not everyone works in a hub. Hub is entirely different than small center.
Small center - bags are dumped and sorted directly onto belts, then right to the cars. There is no primary direct like in the hub.
At the hub I work at now, it's completely different than the small centers I worked at before.
All depends on perspective.
Do all sort jobs get the extra $1 an hour or just the ones that sort them into bins?
Ummm....No!!! Apparently it depends on where you are. I have been sorting for 2 years and no extra buck for me. I've inquired many times and they told me it wasn't going to happen and to quit asking.