<-----You guys have been a great motivator to stay in college. Every part timer I see that is about to accept a full time bid acknowledgement, I give them the speach that I got on this website May 2006 when I tried it.
I don't think UPS is the only blue collar job thats going this way. In the modern world, the good blue collar jobs are rapidly disapeering. The jobs of the baby boom generation are going to be long gone and without an education to keep yourself marketable, you are doomed to this type of life.
To all of the young part timers, who have only put a few years in - APWA or any union, to make the kind of money we want - we're going to have to work our asses off for it. I certainly do not want to do this crap until I'm 62. I'm out as soon as I finish my degree and get a stable job using it. Learn from the mistakes of this generation.