Something is terribly wrong with anyone that thinks 35% increase in volume is equal to 35% increase in revenue. A 35% increase in volume in my gig would put us out of business, as it would make costs too high to manage.
Don't even need to change the situation. You have a 35% increase in volume and no staff increases-- and in many places, staff decreases. That extra volume is eaten up by overtime and poor management practices which can't retain employees. It is very much poorly run, yes, but it's largely prohibited by congress and conservative-driven legislation that kneecaps the organization.
We shoot for about a 4.5% increase per year, budgeted. A 35% increase in volume would cause us to need to hire 13 new employees to cover the increase. There is no way we could do that without also borrowing. Plus, we know that the 35% increase in volume is short lived, as in, not going to happen next year. Which means our 13 employees would have to be contractors. And the thing about contractors is that they cost 3x more than normal employees. HR would never let us hire 13 "seasonal" regular employees, we knew we were going to have to terminate. But contractors are like hookers. We don't pay them to work, we pay them to leave afterwards. So hiring the equivalent of 39 short term employees, and having to borrow to do it, for a short lived increase in 35% volume would be a pass. But USPS doesn't have the luxury of passing, so I'm saying we wouldn't either, and that would kill us. I don't know of a single industry that has 35% excess capacity. But any that does, is poorly provisioned.
I feel like I live in bizarro World sometimes. Business is up; oh no. Fedex and UPS increase revenue because business is up and shareholder profits are up; how awful for them. I will finish the year 160% of Quota; sucks for me. I will hope that USPS business decreases 90% next year so they can thrive.
Have we been able to get every Trump family member and associate a pardon now with this latest batch? Hope we didn't miss anyone. It is Christmas.
I thought the USPS was trying to remove letter sorters due to the decline in letter mail to make more room for parcel sorters due to the massive increase in packages. Am I misremembering?
I worked for UPS long enough for them to give me a plaque and a retirement package. My bro runs logistics for them. My oldest friend's brother is a driver. My oldest friend was a supervisor, until he went to a different company, doing shipping. Me and UPS has met. Right now, UPS is in peak season. It's planned for every year, in budget. USPS is a different animal.
Letter sorting is approaching automated, with neural nets recognizing 99% of handwritten letters and numbers.
This doesn't address my question. Delays in USPS is due to the exploding volume of parcel mail and not having the machines necessary to process them right? I thought the USPS plan was to reallocate space for machines to handle parcels and reduce the hardware processing letters as they volume has continued to decrease.
