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<blockquote data-quote="MaceFremonti" data-source="post: 1021703" data-attributes="member: 36696"><p>Hello Dana,</p><p></p><p>I am a 22 year Metro DC driver and I'd like to give you some perspective on delivering and parking in Northwest D.C. An "average" day for me in years past was delivering 250 packages to 115 different addresses. This was considered an "8 hour day." Which "gives" me about 4 minutes to complete each delivery. This time takes into account the time to park, select packages, proceed to address, get signature, return to vehicle, and proceed to the next stop. Up until a few years ago we (fellow DC drivers and I) - for the most part - had the time to park in locations up to a block or so from where we had to deliver and not worry about losing too much time. That is no longer the case.</p><p></p><p>My "average 8 hour planned day" is now over 350 packages to over 210 addresses. My allowance for each stop bas essentially been cut in half to 2 minutes. We are constantly harassed over our production speed. If your route is primarily commercial you pretty much HAVE to be done before the close of business at 5 o'clock. None of us go out of our way to block the bike lanes or to double park on New York Av at rush hour but when it is 100 degrees outside and you have 10 60lb cases of paper to deliver to the middle of the block you double park and deliver it.</p><p></p><p>That's not meant as an excuse but these days that's just the nature of doing business in D.C. when you work for a company that is concerned with ONLY the bottom line. PERIOD. Check out some of the various threads in this forum and you may gain some very interesting insight into what it is like to work for Brown.</p><p></p><p>As a funny side note on my very first day as a driver back in 1990 a delivery supe looked at me while we were driving to upper Northeast and asked, "Do you know how to park in D.C.?"</p><p></p><p>"Uh...Not really...", I said expecting some profound wisdom to follow.</p><p></p><p>"Like this!", he said and stopped in the middle of South Dakota Ave and turned his blinkers on!</p><p></p><p>BTW what part of D.C. are you in?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MaceFremonti, post: 1021703, member: 36696"] Hello Dana, I am a 22 year Metro DC driver and I'd like to give you some perspective on delivering and parking in Northwest D.C. An "average" day for me in years past was delivering 250 packages to 115 different addresses. This was considered an "8 hour day." Which "gives" me about 4 minutes to complete each delivery. This time takes into account the time to park, select packages, proceed to address, get signature, return to vehicle, and proceed to the next stop. Up until a few years ago we (fellow DC drivers and I) - for the most part - had the time to park in locations up to a block or so from where we had to deliver and not worry about losing too much time. That is no longer the case. My "average 8 hour planned day" is now over 350 packages to over 210 addresses. My allowance for each stop bas essentially been cut in half to 2 minutes. We are constantly harassed over our production speed. If your route is primarily commercial you pretty much HAVE to be done before the close of business at 5 o'clock. None of us go out of our way to block the bike lanes or to double park on New York Av at rush hour but when it is 100 degrees outside and you have 10 60lb cases of paper to deliver to the middle of the block you double park and deliver it. That's not meant as an excuse but these days that's just the nature of doing business in D.C. when you work for a company that is concerned with ONLY the bottom line. PERIOD. Check out some of the various threads in this forum and you may gain some very interesting insight into what it is like to work for Brown. As a funny side note on my very first day as a driver back in 1990 a delivery supe looked at me while we were driving to upper Northeast and asked, "Do you know how to park in D.C.?" "Uh...Not really...", I said expecting some profound wisdom to follow. "Like this!", he said and stopped in the middle of South Dakota Ave and turned his blinkers on! BTW what part of D.C. are you in? [/QUOTE]
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