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<blockquote data-quote="UPS Lifer" data-source="post: 655840" data-attributes="member: 9789"><p>The hub I worked in was an air & ground operation (ONT) that ran 24 hours a day. This time of year the Twilight operation ran a noon day sort, and on this Sunday would run a pre-charge to reduce the sort span on Monday. The outbound air operation which uses the Twilight feeds needs an increased sort span to make service so the Twilight is forced into finishing at a predetermined time. A new sort is added for about 8 days that runs on the Next Day Air belts which has a capacity of 10K/hr. This sort pulls certain destinations away from the Outbound 2DA/3DS so that the sort can finish before the preload. </p><p></p><p>Around 1 million + packages flow through the hub from Friday thru Monday morning. My normal 3.5 inbound air sort was expanded to 8 plus hours from the Friday before Super-weekend (which included an extra day) until Xmas Eve which dropped down to about a five/six hour sort span. On Xmas eve we processed every air package on property PERIOD. </p><p>Nothing sits! This is the last day we advance service because there are no pick ups on Xmas Eve. </p><p></p><p>My operation was the only hub sort running on Xmas Eve in Southern California. I had a high percentage of Mexican-Americans working for me. Xmas Eve is a very special occasion or (Holy Day) depending on your religious views and was about as challenging to get people to come to work as Super Bowl Sunday is. But somehow we always got through. I did everything in my power to get the hub shut down between 7 and 8 PM and most of the employees were gone between 6-7 PM.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UPS Lifer, post: 655840, member: 9789"] The hub I worked in was an air & ground operation (ONT) that ran 24 hours a day. This time of year the Twilight operation ran a noon day sort, and on this Sunday would run a pre-charge to reduce the sort span on Monday. The outbound air operation which uses the Twilight feeds needs an increased sort span to make service so the Twilight is forced into finishing at a predetermined time. A new sort is added for about 8 days that runs on the Next Day Air belts which has a capacity of 10K/hr. This sort pulls certain destinations away from the Outbound 2DA/3DS so that the sort can finish before the preload. Around 1 million + packages flow through the hub from Friday thru Monday morning. My normal 3.5 inbound air sort was expanded to 8 plus hours from the Friday before Super-weekend (which included an extra day) until Xmas Eve which dropped down to about a five/six hour sort span. On Xmas eve we processed every air package on property PERIOD. Nothing sits! This is the last day we advance service because there are no pick ups on Xmas Eve. My operation was the only hub sort running on Xmas Eve in Southern California. I had a high percentage of Mexican-Americans working for me. Xmas Eve is a very special occasion or (Holy Day) depending on your religious views and was about as challenging to get people to come to work as Super Bowl Sunday is. But somehow we always got through. I did everything in my power to get the hub shut down between 7 and 8 PM and most of the employees were gone between 6-7 PM. [/QUOTE]
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