this peak

[sosocal]

very uneasy feeling this year's peak - planned at "flat to last year" - resulting in "resource nuetral".....should I be concerned that I am already running their peak day projections???????????????????? hold on tight for this one!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[upssalesguy]

i'm just a sales guy, but I was blown away by the volume in the hub this morning. I hope it continues

 

[brownmonster]

very uneasy feeling this year's peak - planned at "flat to last year" - resulting in "resource nuetral".....should I be concerned that I am already running their peak day projections???????????????????? hold on tight for this one!!!!!!!!!!!!

Davis in the paper a few weeks ago predicting peak volume up 7.5% over last year. Apparently he never told the Centers. We are getting blasted also.

 

[grgrcr88]

very uneasy feeling this year's peak - planned at "flat to last year" - resulting in "resource nuetral".....should I be concerned that I am already running their peak day projections???????????????????? hold on tight for this one!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have already exceded the volume for last years peak day!! Lots of overtime this year/ This will be the first peak that I have had to keep an eye on my DOT hours of service!!!!

 

[Dragon]

Davis in the paper a few weeks ago predicting peak volume up 7.5% over last year. Apparently he never told the Centers. We are getting blasted also.

Same here, we are way above all projections. Its gonna be a long 4 weeks.

 

[Nimnim]

Same here, we are way above all projections. Its gonna be a long 4 weeks.

Seem to have been caught off guard at my hub, but I'm just sitting back and enjoying it. Do my work and hope it all works out.

 

[tarbar66]

Maybe volume is up because customers Friday volume plus Cyber Monday volume hit the system. Are the hub's advancing volume already?

I'm glad I'm retired!

 

[cachsux]

We were at 2.2 million yesterday, as discussed far above projected numbers. Apparently there`s this new thing called Christmas and people send and receive packages this time of year. Maybe if it occurs again next year they`ll listen to the dept management and bring in a more appropriate number of seasonal drivers and other personnel.

Hopefully whatever desk jockey that blew this one gets a foot in the ass for his holiday bonus.

 

[Old International]

We lost 4 package drivers during the year, and they were not replaced. We lost the best damn OMS guy on the preload, because they would not let him go to driving. Now they center is paying for it- First week of peak, and they center may lose 4 drivers to DOT hours on Friday. Plus the fact I have to stand around for an hour waiting on volume to make it back to the center, so I can move it to the hub. Not a pretty picture.

 

[over9five]

Is it Peak yet? Still no ot...

 

[fethrs]

Heavy volume at my hub also. Seems like mgt wasn't prepared and sort wasn't done some days until after 9. Feels like peak used to, last year wasn't like this.

26,000 smalls on Tues and that doesn't include the ones manually processed.

Have over 40 hrs for the week and it's not even friday yet.

 

[Anonymous 10]

Heavy volume at my hub also. Seems like mgt wasn't prepared and sort wasn't done some days until after 9. Feels like peak used to, last year wasn't like this.

26,000 smalls on Tues and that doesn't include the ones manually processed.

Have over 40 hrs for the week and it's not even friday yet.

45 and a half hours
as of Thursday and it's only the first week.

 

[ToledoTwi]

This past Tuesday, our building was the heaviest it has ever been in one day. Twilight alone did 300,000 + in 5 hours

 

[sosocal]

We were at 2.2 million yesterday, as discussed far above projected numbers. Apparently there`s this new thing called Christmas and people send and receive packages this time of year. Maybe if it occurs again next year they`ll listen to the dept management and bring in a more appropriate number of seasonal drivers and other personnel.

Hopefully whatever desk jockey that blew this one gets a foot in the ass for his holiday bonus.

SO true...I do recall bringing up many "concerns" during the peak planning call--cube, cars, drivers, volume availability....Why is that I feel it will be my pain when if we roll????...I was "assured" volume would be the same as last year....just run the same plan.

 

[Coldworld]

UPS drivers have lost lots of time per package over the last year or two...so there is no need to hire huge additional package car drivers and such, everybody should be able to pick up the slack with both helpers and the edd system in full effect. This is managements new idea of planning for peak and for the other 10 months of the year. In future years when volume growns the allowance will be cut again, and again in order to be able to "do" more with less. Everybody knows this is how things are looked at around here...if theres an issue cut more allowance..I think its a good solid business plan!!!

 

[Catatonic]

UPS drivers have lost lots of time per package over the last year or two...so there is no need to hire huge additional package car drivers and such, everybody should be able to pick up the slack with both helpers and the edd system in full effect. This is managements new idea of planning for peak and for the other 10 months of the year. In future years when volume growns the allowance will be cut again, and again in order to be able to "do" more with less. Everybody knows this is how things are looked at around here...if theres an issue cut more allowance..I think its a good solid business plan!!!

There is a future for you in I.E.

 

[grgrcr88]

UPS drivers have lost lots of time per package over the last year or two...so there is no need to hire huge additional package car drivers and such, everybody should be able to pick up the slack with both helpers and the edd system in full effect. This is managements new idea of planning for peak and for the other 10 months of the year. In future years when volume growns the allowance will be cut again, and again in order to be able to "do" more with less. Everybody knows this is how things are looked at around here...if theres an issue cut more allowance..I think its a good solid business plan!!!

I was told by our DM that we will be a test center coming soon for keyless doors and ignition in all vehicles. Appaerantly there will be some sort of wristband that is programmed to work with new sensors installed on the vehicles that will start the car and open or unlock the doors. He also said they will be able to add 2 stops per car and shave off .17 of allowance off every driver. Sounds like more work with less people to me!! And with all technology, there will be lots of headaches!!

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

FedEx Express has those and they love them. No fumbling for keys or worrying about frozen locks. 2 stops per car does not sound unreasonable with the time saved.

As with any new technology there will be glitches at first.

 

[Brown287]

Volume is way UP!!!!! At my center, on Tuesday we got hit harder then I remember all of last X-mas. Are trucks were all at capacity and we had two meet points that day. First was for late air, second was with Chocolate Thunder for your over flow packages that would not fit in the morning. Things got a little better by weeks end due to the rentals showing up. What I don't understand is that on Monday we had 8 rental tractors and ZERO rental trucks. So it was as if they saw more volume but figured we would just put the stuff on the roofs.

 

[rod]

I was told by our DM that we will be a test center coming soon for keyless doors and ignition in all vehicles. Appaerantly there will be some sort of wristband that is programmed to work with new sensors installed on the vehicles that will start the car and open or unlock the doors. He also said they will be able to add 2 stops per car and shave off .17 of allowance off every driver. Sounds like more work with less people to me!! And with all technology, there will be lots of headaches!!

wait til you get your new shock collars