UPS Routing

[Sanctus Rimor]

Nothing like tripling the distance. But hey, they've been doing this for a long time, so I'm sure that they have a reason that this is the most effiicent route.

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[dtech]

Better than dealing with the USPS , especially if you live in CO mtn communities, from Steamboat Springs this week :


After meeting with the U.S. Postal Service last week, residents and government officials are looking for new approaches to resolve delivery problems in Steamboat Springs and other Colorado mountain communities.

“It’s just sporadic,” said Susie Allen, a South Routt resident who has not seen regular deliveries to her mailbox since early December. “They keep saying it’s getting better, but I haven’t seen it.”

Allen is not alone. She said her neighbors who live in the Catamount area received their Christmas cards in the mail last week.

 

[Blmpkn]

It's not uncommon at all.

My coworkers regular ass mail gets sent 2 states away to get sorted and sent back 2 states to wherever it needs to go ?‍

I've had FedEx pick something up for me from Florida, bring it all the way to mass or NH.. then ship it to Chicago before it wound up in maine lol.

 

[Iowa Guy]

Nothing like tripling the distance. But hey, they've been doing this for a long time, so I'm sure that they have a reason that this is the most effiicent route.

it's not about individual items, its about maximizing full truck volumes to the distribution centers and delivery hubs.

 

[D Fresh]

UPS sucks.

I'm waiting on $800 worth of parts and ammo they say they delivered yesterday.

Dude pulled up in front of my house, sat for 5 minutes, and pulled off without delivering shit.

Now I have to wait 48 hours to resubmit the order. Total pain in the ass.

I blame their union.

 

[Chris M]

UPS sucks.

I'm waiting on $800 worth of parts and ammo they say they delivered yesterday.

Dude pulled up in front of my house, sat for 5 minutes, and pulled off without delivering shit.

Now I have to wait 48 hours to resubmit the order. Total pain in the ass.

I blame their union.

I'm of the opinion we blame the guy in the truck. He's the one that can't be bothered to properly read and match an address on his scanner with the one on the house or mailbox. Many delivery drivers I've had interactions with over the last decade speak little English, and those that supposedly do can't seem to read an address correctly out loud so you know they can't read it correctly in their head and match it up to an actual house or business with an actual visible number. When asked where they need to go they look at you and show you the map on their phone app...which apparently they can only half-ass manipulate. Many Ride share drivers share the same disability, it seems to me.

Ultimately the person doing the job either can and will, or can't and won't do it properly.

 

[TJC]

This is simply a symptom of a crumbling society. How many cashiers can give you correct change? We have a generation of people who have poor work ethics, and a poorer education... completely lacking any critical thinking skills.

I stopped to assist a late 20's mother with 2 kids who had a flat. She had no spare. It was 8pm on a rural road. I took her to town and she purchased a tire. She then explained to me that she had bought a tire 2 weeks earlier for the other front tire. I looked over her tires and the steel belts were showing on the flat and the 2 on the back. She complained about being late for her date! She was meeting a fellow for a hookup with her two kids in tow, a 4 year old and a 6 year old. While I was changing her tire, another car stopped and a 20 something stranger walked up offering to help, she introduced herself to him and then went home with him.

She told me that she was a second grade School Teacher! I wouldn't let that woman near my kids. She wasn't fit to raise her own, let alone be entrusted with 25-30 kids in a classroom.

As in everything, there is a bell curve. There are many fine young people who strive for excellence, but there are far more who think the world owes them something for nothing.

Back to shipping, in the last month I drop shipped a package to my in-laws in update NY. The UPS truck sat for 3 days on the side if the road in East Syracuse!

I ordered an item from Amazon, and watched it bounce back and forth between Raleigh, NC and Queens NY, Trenton NJ, and Manhattan, NY. It came to the Raleigh distribution Center 3 times then back to NY. On the 4th attempt it arrived and was delivered (2 weeks late).

This is now the rule rather then the exception.

 

[BS67]

Ordered a set of Glock sights 1st week of December '22. On UPS tracking they were at the UPS here and checked in. 3 days later not delivered. Went to UPS looking for my package. After a 10-second half-ass search they said looks like they're lost. Told them they didn't look very hard. Told them to find my package.

Last friday got home from work.....wife says I got a package from UPS. Told her I didn't order anything. Opened it up........alas!.......my sights. Only took them 7 1/2 weeks to get them 20 miles!

Doggling service if you ask me!

 

[Sanctus Rimor]

it's not about individual items, its about maximizing full truck volumes to the distribution centers and delivery hubs.

I know. Just being snarky,sarcastic. The shipment is UPS ground. I don't know thier actual routre. That's just from plugging their updates into google.

I have another package that departed Salt lake and went to Louisville, KY (2nd day air). I know that's one of their hubs, and I believe they even have direct flight to hawaii from there.

It's like my substitute mailman who backs into my carport to turn around, but won't leave my package, instead, leaving a pick up notice in my mailbox.

And speaking of USPS, all our island mail gets shipped off island to process and gets sent back.

Just funny how these are the most efficient methods.

I find their routing intersting (or maybe I'm just easily amused?)., and really anything to do with mapping and routing for that matter. I was a route director for a charity cycling event. Every year, over the course of a weekend, I had to plan two metric and one imperial century routes. And this is on a 555 sq. mile island that is 80 miles form one end to the other. Adding to the challenge, was creating three different routes that all had to start, and then return to the same point. And let me tell ya, cyclists can be excruciatingly anal retentive about mileage (I know, I'm one of them). If the routes were +/- more than a mile, I heard all about it.

 

[Sanctus Rimor]

I'm of the opinion we blame the guy in the truck. He's the one that can't be bothered to properly read and match an address on his scanner with the one on the house or mailbox.

Ultimately the person doing the job either can and will, or can't and won't do it properly.

Their route planning is set up to eliminate as many left turns as possible. Something I can relate to from my route planning days. Not sure if that's helpful or a hindrance to the drivers ou describe, but for cyclists, left turns on this island can be perilous.

 

[Sanctus Rimor]

Ordered a set of Glock sights 1st week of December '22. On UPS tracking they were at the UPS here and checked in. 3 days later not delivered. Went to UPS looking for my package. After a 10-second half-ass search they said looks like they're lost. Told them they didn't look very hard. Told them to find my package.

Last friday got home from work.....wife says I got a package from UPS. Told her I didn't order anything. Opened it up........alas!.......my sights. Only took them 7 1/2 weeks to get them 20 miles!

Doggling service if you ask me!

We ordered drapes for our living room. We needed two different sizes, and were fortunate enough to fid them both from the from the same seller on Amazon. Got two shipping notifications. Each size shipped separately. probably just a packaging thing.
Both Packages were picked up in Kenosha WI at the same time, and both left at the same time.
Both arrived in Elk Grove IL at the same time, and subsequently left Oak Grove IL at the same time, and then both arrived in Chicago, again, at the same time.

And this is where they parted ways. Not sure exactly what happened to cause this. Maybe one had to pee and didn't get back on the truck in time? Or one didn't like the snack choices for this road trip? One package went on to Ontario CA, and the other went to Tennessee before eventually making it's way to us. The best part? Even though they arrived in Honollu a day apart, they departed together. So whatever differences they had, they must have settled them, because they've living on the walls in peace and harmony ever since.

 

[D Fresh]

I'm of the opinion we blame the guy in the truck. He's the one that can't be bothered to properly read and match an address on his scanner with the one on the house or mailbox. Many delivery drivers I've had interactions with over the last decade speak little English, and those that supposedly do can't seem to read an address correctly out loud so you know they can't read it correctly in their head and match it up to an actual house or business with an actual visible number. When asked where they need to go they look at you and show you the map on their phone app...which apparently they can only half-ass manipulate. Many Ride share drivers share the same disability, it seems to me.

Ultimately the person doing the job either can and will, or can't and won't do it properly.

Agreed wholeheartedly.

But who keeps these shitty drivers from being fired?

By the time a person makes it to driver at UPS they are fully entrenched and supported by the union. People talk about "quiet quiting" nowadays, but unions have been handing in subpar work for decades.

 

[P. A. Schilke]

I know. Just being snarky,sarcastic. The shipment is UPS ground. I don't know thier actual routre. That's just from plugging their updates into google.

I have another package that departed Salt lake and went to Louisville, KY (2nd day air). I know that's one of their hubs, and I believe they even have direct flight to hawaii from there.

It's like my substitute mailman who backs into my carport to turn around, but won't leave my package, instead, leaving a pick up notice in my mailbox.

And speaking of USPS, all our island mail gets shipped off island to process and gets sent back.

Just funny how these are the most efficient methods.

I find their routing intersting (or maybe I'm just easily amused?)., and really anything to do with mapping and routing for that matter. I was a route director for a charity cycling event. Every year, over the course of a weekend, I had to plan two metric and one imperial century routes. And this is on a 555 sq. mile island that is 80 miles form one end to the other. Adding to the challenge, was creating three different routes that all had to start, and then return to the same point. And let me tell ya, cyclists can be excruciatingly anal retentive about mileage (I know, I'm one of them). If the routes were +/- more than a mile, I heard all about it.

Hi Paul,

Yep! I want to send a local doctor a fee to his practice. So put in our street side mail box with the flag up. It then goes to Phoenix to get processed and then back to Tucson and then to Green Valley. A very efficient way for USPS to deliver the mail in a timely manor. NOT!

Best,
Phil

 

[BS67]

Hi Paul,

Yep! I want to send a local doctor a fee to his practice. So put in our street side mail box with the flag up. It then goes to Phoenix to get processed and then back to Tucson and then to Green Valley. A very efficient way for USPS to deliver the mail in a timely manor. NOT!

Best,
Phil

We can put an envelope in the mailbox down at the office to go to the courthouse here in town......it goes to Grand Island.......to Omaha........back to Grand Island.......then back here to the post office to be delivered across the street to the courthouse. Absolutely efficient!

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