"Whim of a supervisor"??? It will be another service we provide, just like Next Day Air by 10:30.
Or are you saying you don't have to deliver your Next Days by 10:30 either?
Are you clueless? "like next day air?" You mean, your going to get a list in the am before you leave telling you which stops have a "scheduled" delivery and you must comply with it?
Look at the typical package driver schedule:
Depart hub 915am and head out to complete next day air by 1030am, do you think during this time we will be able to make "scheduled" ground deliveries? Where will those packages be loaded? Will there be a new section on shelf 1 for ALL "scheduled" deliveries? OR will they be shoved under everything else like they are everyday?
Then, in the AM after NDA, most cars have business to complete before the 12 to 1PM window, will we have to break off our business with 12 pm commits and such to run to a residential address to deliver a ground packgage? Next, assuming everyone takes lunch at 1pm to 2pm, what if a customer wants the delivery during that hour? Do we delay lunch and then violate the mileage limitation from driving less than 1/4 mile after the last stop?
Most cars have pickups that start at 4pm (some at 330pm) and run untl 530Pm, then to the relay to drop NDA. Are we to break off of pickups and violate the "15 minute window" to run back to a residential stop and make 1 ground delivery because it was on the list in the AM?
What if a customer wants a delivery between 4pm and 6pm? Do I miss the relay and service fail all my air?
What about the small time frame between the business and pickups? Should I spend that time running around from section to section delivering one stop until those are complete, then go back to the begining of my residential and start delivering some 45 mins late?
Free time is something we DONT HAVE. Flexibility is another thing we DONT HAVE. A single delay (scheduled delivery) could cause a 30 minute delay in the day pushing us later into the evening and into overtime, not to mention having to hold more packages on the shelfs during the pickups wasting a ton of space and possibly forcing us to call in for help with pickups because we dont have the cube space to place the pickups on.
In UPSTOPIA, this new service will have a minimal impact on the delivery day, but we still havent gotten to the "how will these deliveries be scheduled".
If we dont get a list in the AM, then we have to depend on a supervisor or OMS sending a message via ODS instructing us to break off and go make a scheduled delivery. Either way, there is no window to accomodate this service unless drastic levels of work are removed from our delivery day.
Residential customers work like we do, so you can imagine that some will want a delivery before 10am and some will want a delivery between 5 and 6. If customers will be home between 12 and 4, why bother using the service in the first place? I dont know of ANY customer who will make a scheduled delivery for 8PM. What about those trucks that get done at 6pm and usually head in?
Do they stay on the road since they have a couple of stops wanting a 7 to 730pm delivery or do they have to run down another driver and transfer those packages?
There are so many intangibiles with this service it isnt even funny.
Try thinking this one out completely 9five.
Peace.