UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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I take my break between 1600 and 1610 daily and then the first 15 minutes of my 45 minute lunch between 1610 and 1625--this time is spent at Dunkin Donuts where I have coffee and chat with a retired Marine who lives on the former Plattsburgh AFB. I then do a few pickups and finish the balance of my lunch between 1730 and 1800 at home as my condo is on my delivery route before making my last pickup (MBE) on the way back to the center. Some days I am asked to help out other drivers so this schedule is altered but this is my normal routine. I eat my lunch (usually 2 sandwiches, water/soda, apple/banana and cookies) as I am working. I actually prefer it this way as I find it hard to get back into high gear after I have stopped for 45 minutes and I have tailored my run so that I normally complete deliveries by 1430, start the first round of pickups at 1430 until 1600, and then as above.
Now, if I have something that I need to do (haircut/errands) I will alter this schedule accordingly. Our center manager doesn't care when we take out lunch/break just as long as we do take them and do record them in the DIAD.
Every once in a while I will ask for and receive permission to go Code 5 and skip my lunch and break so that I can get done early to get to a function that I need to be at. Those of us with kids can certainly understand this.
BTW, just to show you that they do indeed use GPS, my on-car called me on my cell and asked me to please cover a P/U after I was finished with my break at Dunkin Donuts. I asked him how he knew where I was and he just laughed.
Now, if I have something that I need to do (haircut/errands) I will alter this schedule accordingly. Our center manager doesn't care when we take out lunch/break just as long as we do take them and do record them in the DIAD.
Every once in a while I will ask for and receive permission to go Code 5 and skip my lunch and break so that I can get done early to get to a function that I need to be at. Those of us with kids can certainly understand this.
BTW, just to show you that they do indeed use GPS, my on-car called me on my cell and asked me to please cover a P/U after I was finished with my break at Dunkin Donuts. I asked him how he knew where I was and he just laughed.