Possible UPS strike

[smoothshooter]

A couple of the guys at the gun club work for UPS.
Those folks earn their money.
Ever notice you don't see any old UPS drivers?
Best,
Gary

Don't know about the transfer terminal guys, but the delivery drivers in my area work their butts off. Always have. Can count on one hand the times I have seen one of them stopping to eat lunch in over 35 years.
As someone has already said, you never see any old guys doing deliveries.

 

[smoothshooter]

Since the bridge was completed years before his disappearance I don't see how.

I heard years ago that a Mob informant said under oath that Hoffa was ground into hamburger and is in a matching 3-piece set of luggage down in the Everglades.

 

[Bald1]

I heard years ago that a Mob informant said under oath that Hoffa was ground into hamburger and is in a matching 3-piece set of luggage down in the Everglades.

If that's true the gators took care of him within a day

 

[Jessie]

I wonder if it was alligator luggage? Ironic if so.

 

[Private Bailey]

UPS says it intends to hire 100,000 temporary employees for the holiday season.

 

[OLDSTER]

Maybe it'll keep me from buying stuff for a while.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Sometimes stuff gets delivered here on a PENSKE truck that is yellow.

 

[vt_shooter]

I've never seen an over-weight or an old UPS driver. They work their tails off, not to mention I would not want to be in their shoes when the temp is above a hundred and those guys are still hustling in their brutally hot trucks that of course do not have A/C.

 

[Catwrangler]

UPS

This is in response to one posters statement re: $20.00 easy dollars an hour.
My sophomore year in college I worked Christmas crunch (see below), as a driver helper on a residential route. Due to expanded volume stops were averaging 140, many with multiple packages. My job was to put packages on the front porch while the driver lines up the next delivery and return to the truck ASAP. As you're aware lots of houses are set well back from the road and company policy is not to take the truck down a driveway. The first week I'd arrive home and was only interested in putting the heating pad between my knees and seeking the analgesic properties of Tylenol and beer. My knees are killing me from jumping on and off the truck. I got better the second week and 3rd week I was all good and in shape, but the first week was hell. A lot of the drivers develop knee problems.

UPS says it intends to hire 100,000 temporary employees for the holiday season.

 

[Telecaster]

As if this isn't enough, I read an article today saying mail theft is way up. Anything that looks like a check is a juicy target.

data from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) shows that between 2018 and 2021, robberies of mail carriers nationwide more than tripled and robberies involving a gun more than quadrupled.

Lawmakers examine increase in mail theft, mail carrier robberies

 

[SMSgt]

Professional extortionists.

 

[Golddollar]

As if this isn't enough, I read an article today saying mail theft is way up. Anything that looks like a check is a juicy target.



Lawmakers examine increase in mail theft, mail carrier robberies

Can't they put armed Marines in the mail cars like they used to?

 

[pacific234]

You might want to pay attention to the news about this in the coming months.


UPS Teamsters union threatens strike: Here'''s a look back at 1997 | Fortune


"August 4, 1997, probably doesn't stand out as a significant day in world history. But some would disagree.

That was the first time United Parcel Service (UPS) workers organized a nationwide strike in the U.S., which ended up with the company losing almost $780 million. In the 15 days that the strike lasted, 80% of UPS shipments went undelivered.

Now it may be happening again."

Same old story.

 

[pantannojack]

Agreed. UPS pays its drivers well, and they work very hard for their money.

Yeah. I earned my money too.

 

[zeke]

If ordering anything worth anything, or actually wanting it on time, am always trying for ups over the usps or fed ex.

 

[Telecaster]

Yeah. I earned my money too.

Yup, me too. But I didn't have a union to get me 30 days of vacation a year, huge bonuses, and a pension after 30 years.