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<blockquote data-quote="Ricochet1" data-source="post: 451041" data-attributes="member: 19893"><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Since I’m new here and don’t want to suffer the wrath of district management, I’ll only identify myself as an Express Courier. The recent pay cuts have seemed to have loosened the lips of a few people in managerial positions I know. It seems that cutting the pay of salaried employees along with their bonuses has a price after all. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Firstly, a few months ago MrFedEx posted an informed statement regarding the eventual transfer of non-overnight volume to the Ground division for delivery. This was correctly assumed as only being possible with the installation of caster decking in the Ground Terminals. I was given information today confirming that contracts are in place to install caster decking at the remaining Ground terminals that don’t currently have caster decking. Cargo containers with non-overnight content will be transferred in the late afternoons from the receiving ramps; or directly from the hubs to the Ground terminals, for sorting and delivery by Ground division. This should be implemented fully by mid-2010. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Secondly, the implementation of the ROADS system within the Express division is well underway. This system enables handlers with no knowledge of route boundaries, or even the knowledge to read an actual address, to sort and load delivery trucks in the AM. This is similar to the system that UPS already utilizes. Individuals will be trained to scan the address bar code and ASTRA, and apply a ROADS tag to each piece. Handlers will then pull the pieces from the belt, looking only at the ROADS label, and load them into the trucks. The system is sophisticated enough to even allow handlers to place the volume within “stop order”, eliminating the need for the courier to even place a van-scan upon each piece, and placing it in stop order. With the full implementation of this system (mid to late 2010), couriers will no longer be needed to participate in the AM sort. Larger stations will begin using the system next year, and once the “bugs” are worked out, it will be implemented in the smaller stations in early 2010. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Thirdly, with Couriers no longer needed for the AM sort, and non overnight volume being transferred to Ground, there will no longer be a need to have full time Couriers. A gradual shift towards a part time delivery work force is going to be implemented. I was given the suggestion that the degradation of the benefits package is part of that strategy. There will be an AM and PM part time Courier force. Any full timers after mid 2010 would have to work an AM delivery route, then a PM pickup route if they are still around. Full timers still around at this date would be forced to take a 4x10 schedule, to prevent any overtime from being accrued. The goals are to reduce the labor costs through having lower compensated handlers doing the entire package handling, and a structuring of the workforce to virtually eliminate any overtime from needing to be granted. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px">There was other information passed to me, such as the delaying of acquisition of new delivery truck purchases as much as possible, so that the reduced volumes that Express will deliver can be gauged, and smaller, more fuel efficient trucks can be purchased – supposedly starting in early 2010. The thrust is that things will be changing for the full time Courier force at FedEx starting next year. Two years from now, the work flow that we know now won’t exist. The high driver turn-over in Ground doesn’t seem to have affected their productivity, so the thought is that the same philosophy can be brought over to the Express side, and save on labor costs even more. The key to this is that for the quarter which just ended, FDX had a larger profit that it did for the same quarter a year ago. This isn’t being done out of necessity, it is being done out of a desire to restructure how the company delivers its service. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">The PSP philosophy has been inverted; it is now profit-service-people. The change in the “take-aways” is that the salaried employees that have given 60+ hours a week to FDX have been short changed this time. Loyalty is slipping fast. There doesn’t seem to be enough salaried managers that want to continue to either drink the FDX Kool-Aid, or to distribute it to their subordinates. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ricochet1, post: 451041, member: 19893"] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]Since I’m new here and don’t want to suffer the wrath of district management, I’ll only identify myself as an Express Courier. The recent pay cuts have seemed to have loosened the lips of a few people in managerial positions I know. It seems that cutting the pay of salaried employees along with their bonuses has a price after all. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]Firstly, a few months ago MrFedEx posted an informed statement regarding the eventual transfer of non-overnight volume to the Ground division for delivery. This was correctly assumed as only being possible with the installation of caster decking in the Ground Terminals. I was given information today confirming that contracts are in place to install caster decking at the remaining Ground terminals that don’t currently have caster decking. Cargo containers with non-overnight content will be transferred in the late afternoons from the receiving ramps; or directly from the hubs to the Ground terminals, for sorting and delivery by Ground division. This should be implemented fully by mid-2010. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]Secondly, the implementation of the ROADS system within the Express division is well underway. This system enables handlers with no knowledge of route boundaries, or even the knowledge to read an actual address, to sort and load delivery trucks in the AM. This is similar to the system that UPS already utilizes. Individuals will be trained to scan the address bar code and ASTRA, and apply a ROADS tag to each piece. Handlers will then pull the pieces from the belt, looking only at the ROADS label, and load them into the trucks. The system is sophisticated enough to even allow handlers to place the volume within “stop order”, eliminating the need for the courier to even place a van-scan upon each piece, and placing it in stop order. With the full implementation of this system (mid to late 2010), couriers will no longer be needed to participate in the AM sort. Larger stations will begin using the system next year, and once the “bugs” are worked out, it will be implemented in the smaller stations in early 2010. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]Thirdly, with Couriers no longer needed for the AM sort, and non overnight volume being transferred to Ground, there will no longer be a need to have full time Couriers. A gradual shift towards a part time delivery work force is going to be implemented. I was given the suggestion that the degradation of the benefits package is part of that strategy. There will be an AM and PM part time Courier force. Any full timers after mid 2010 would have to work an AM delivery route, then a PM pickup route if they are still around. Full timers still around at this date would be forced to take a 4x10 schedule, to prevent any overtime from being accrued. The goals are to reduce the labor costs through having lower compensated handlers doing the entire package handling, and a structuring of the workforce to virtually eliminate any overtime from needing to be granted. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]There was other information passed to me, such as the delaying of acquisition of new delivery truck purchases as much as possible, so that the reduced volumes that Express will deliver can be gauged, and smaller, more fuel efficient trucks can be purchased – supposedly starting in early 2010. The thrust is that things will be changing for the full time Courier force at FedEx starting next year. Two years from now, the work flow that we know now won’t exist. The high driver turn-over in Ground doesn’t seem to have affected their productivity, so the thought is that the same philosophy can be brought over to the Express side, and save on labor costs even more. The key to this is that for the quarter which just ended, FDX had a larger profit that it did for the same quarter a year ago. This isn’t being done out of necessity, it is being done out of a desire to restructure how the company delivers its service. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]The PSP philosophy has been inverted; it is now profit-service-people. The change in the “take-aways” is that the salaried employees that have given 60+ hours a week to FDX have been short changed this time. Loyalty is slipping fast. There doesn’t seem to be enough salaried managers that want to continue to either drink the FDX Kool-Aid, or to distribute it to their subordinates. [/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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