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<blockquote data-quote="brownrodster" data-source="post: 454555" data-attributes="member: 10437"><p>UPS was never shut down on any business days. UPS typically does not opperate on saturdays. Or if they do it is in a limited capacity.</p><p> </p><p>UPS is still having trouble in Seattle because of the backlog of undelivered packages. It will take many days to catch up. The drivers are out there working the maximum number of hours they can.</p><p> </p><p>There exists NO winter storm plan except tire chains and longer hours. The only thing we could do is hire more people and rent more trucks. But then we would have to fire those excess employees when we get caught up.</p><p> </p><p>It is obvious you don't understand the scale of our operations. The redmond hub you want to pick your package up deals with tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of packages every night.</p><p> </p><p>Basically overnight a place like that can rack up easily 20, 30 thousand undelivered packages when it snows. And when you have 2 weeks of snow it snowballs. You continue to rack up that many more undelivered packages each and every day. You tell me how we can find your single package amongst that many. FEDEX deals with much less package volume spread out over 3 (more?) different companies (express, ground, home delivery).</p><p> </p><p>So, you are right. If you live in seattle and you want timely delivery and expect to have a 2 week long blizzard in the near future, then maybe shipping UPS is not the best option. Otherwise UPS is still the best.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brownrodster, post: 454555, member: 10437"] UPS was never shut down on any business days. UPS typically does not opperate on saturdays. Or if they do it is in a limited capacity. UPS is still having trouble in Seattle because of the backlog of undelivered packages. It will take many days to catch up. The drivers are out there working the maximum number of hours they can. There exists NO winter storm plan except tire chains and longer hours. The only thing we could do is hire more people and rent more trucks. But then we would have to fire those excess employees when we get caught up. It is obvious you don't understand the scale of our operations. The redmond hub you want to pick your package up deals with tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of packages every night. Basically overnight a place like that can rack up easily 20, 30 thousand undelivered packages when it snows. And when you have 2 weeks of snow it snowballs. You continue to rack up that many more undelivered packages each and every day. You tell me how we can find your single package amongst that many. FEDEX deals with much less package volume spread out over 3 (more?) different companies (express, ground, home delivery). So, you are right. If you live in seattle and you want timely delivery and expect to have a 2 week long blizzard in the near future, then maybe shipping UPS is not the best option. Otherwise UPS is still the best. [/QUOTE]
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