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[FarFarRight]

I work in the river river district of Texas. I was wondering what the size and weight was for smalls at the other centers. What percent do y'all usually reach. Thanks

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

No more than 8 lbs.

 

[FarFarRight]

How big though? Length width??

 

[FarFarRight]

Length width??

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I forgot the dimensions off the top of my head.

 

[FarFarRight]

I appreciate you getting back with me if you remember please let me know brother

 

[Turdferguson]

Length width??

What is the length and width of your smalls bins?

 

[oldngray]

They can call anything a "small". The definition of the size has changed over time.

 

[FarFarRight]

Length width??

What is the length and width of your smalls bins?

We don't eve use are bins we use totes

 

[oldngray]

We don't eve use are bins we use totes

Once upon a time it was less than a pound and could fit through a coathanger. UPS changed the definition to have more packages containerized.

 

[bottomups]

5lbs or less and fits through a coat hanger.

 

[oldngray]

5lbs or less and fits through a coat hanger.

It might have been 3 pounds. I'm pretty sure it wasn't 5. The coathanger was the main thing I remembered. Plus there wasn't the insistence on labeling so many more packages as smalls then.

 

[DriveInDriveOut]

How big though? Length width??

@Indecisi0n

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

It might have been 3 pounds. I'm pretty sure it wasn't 5. The coathanger was the main thing I remembered. Plus there wasn't the insistence on labeling so many more packages as smalls then.

Packages are not labeled based on size.

As you mentioned, there is a push to containerize more smalls as it does streamline the operation.

 

[scratch]

Used to be fit-through-a-coat hanger, it seems like that has changed, especially with some of the larger Sure Posts I am seeing. My hub is in the middle of construction of a new automated smalls sort. They are adding another floor over my parking place.

 

[Richard Harrow]

 

[Wally]

What is the length and width of your smalls bins?

That's klnd of personal, don't you think? You are going to get @Indecisi0n all worked up!

 

[Ghost in the Darkness]

If it looks like a small and you can fit it in a smalls bag with atleast 9 other small parcels its definitely a small. #small

 

[DriveInDriveOut]

Used to be fit-through-a-coat hanger, it seems like that has changed, especially with some of the larger Sure Posts I am seeing. My hub is in the middle of construction of a new automated smalls sort. They are adding another floor over my parking place.

I hope some egg head got a promotion for the "build a second floor for the smalls sort" idea, they're doing it in multiple locations just that I know of, and I don't know much.

 

[km3]

They can call anything a "small". The definition of the size has changed over time.

Yep. They upgraded our small sort last October. The new definition is something in the area of 16 x 16 x 6 or something like that. Pretty big for a small.

Before that, the definition we were told to abide by was "if handling the package requires only one hand."