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<blockquote data-quote="andrew99" data-source="post: 684762" data-attributes="member: 23431"><p>I understand the corporate guidelines are given to ensure uniformity within various operations throughout the company. Operations often need to be altered & tailored to accomidate customers, so to take corporate guidelines as a de facto ruleset might not be practical. I think efficincey at UPS is best defined as the fastest way to make service with as little cost as possible. Unfortunately, the processes being mandated as corporate guidelines for smalls aren't the most efficent. Thats a hard pill for many a UPSer to swallow.</p><p> </p><p>Some of the volume we run in smalls is fine to be sent out over the belts. Tiny boxes and envelopes aside, everything else is fair game for the belts. 30ish-minutes towards the end of the day, we "cut" smalls at the unload and only containerize envelopes & tiny boxes. At the end of the day, the typical practice at our sort is to send larger "smalls" boxes back to the sort isle to get sorted out over the belts, while the smalls baggers finish whats left. The end result, is the hub wraps up at the same time, but some loose smalls go out through the outbounds. I guess the reason corporate guidelines are ignored is because they're not practical?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="andrew99, post: 684762, member: 23431"] I understand the corporate guidelines are given to ensure uniformity within various operations throughout the company. Operations often need to be altered & tailored to accomidate customers, so to take corporate guidelines as a de facto ruleset might not be practical. I think efficincey at UPS is best defined as the fastest way to make service with as little cost as possible. Unfortunately, the processes being mandated as corporate guidelines for smalls aren't the most efficent. Thats a hard pill for many a UPSer to swallow. Some of the volume we run in smalls is fine to be sent out over the belts. Tiny boxes and envelopes aside, everything else is fair game for the belts. 30ish-minutes towards the end of the day, we "cut" smalls at the unload and only containerize envelopes & tiny boxes. At the end of the day, the typical practice at our sort is to send larger "smalls" boxes back to the sort isle to get sorted out over the belts, while the smalls baggers finish whats left. The end result, is the hub wraps up at the same time, but some loose smalls go out through the outbounds. I guess the reason corporate guidelines are ignored is because they're not practical? [/QUOTE]
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