Less than seamless reporting - UPS and the RRs

[Backshop]

ALL Fedex Ground and Home Delivery is by contractors, even their OTR trucks.  Only Express is in-house.

[Overmod]

Backshop

Only Express is in-house.

And to the extent they use Ground resources for certain short-distance lanes ... and they do ... those services are contract, too.

[BaltACD]

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BaltACD

The final mile in most FedEx deliveries is performed by a indpendent contractor for FedEx.  Check the side of the delivery vehicle to get the name of the contractor.  Yes, the vehicle is painted in FedEx colors, but the contractos identity is shown on the side of the vehicle.

UPS delivery is done by UPS employees in UPS vehicles. 

Being a seasonal UPS employee myself.. We also use IC's or what we call Personal Vehicle Drivers (PVD). 

Also rental vehicles are normal for peak season. Many of our METROS (Air Meets) were using rented Dodge Grand Caravan's this past season. All parcel providers use rentals during peak to handle demand..

To Backshop what you speak is called Surepost where UPS hands off lower volume parcels blocks and peak volume to USPS due to cost. It's cheaper to have USPS handle these parcels.

In my delivery areas I have never seen UPS use anything other than UPS uniformed drivers in UPS vehicles.  YMMV.

[rdamon]

Saw the first brown truck in our neighborhood in months. They probably moved trucks to where they could not get personal vehicle drivers or lease vehicles.  Was eyeing a UHaul truck parked in front of a neighbors house until I saw the driver in a brown uniform get out.

[northeaster]

How things have changed. In the spring of 1965, I was at Columbia University B School and my "Transportation" professor got me an interview for a summer job with NYC. When I got to the grand NYC Building at Grand Cental Terminal I was taken to the office of Tom Kelly who was titled System Supervisor along with another young fellow. While we sat in his office, Tom was on the phone with some poor soul getting his rear end chewed off because a boxcar of bananas was missing and could not be found. "Find that car today or you'r going to find it with your nose!" All this was of course before any computer was on the property. Our job was to walk down every rail siding on the NYC system and find and identify whatever cars we found. Unfortunately, before I could start this job my dad had a heart attack and I had to take on the family business: never got to wear out my shoes on railroad property.

[daveklepper]

It will appar backward when railroads, as N&W is brginnig to do, provide that informas\tion serve fo their customrs with that information.

[NittanyLion]

BaltACD

 

 

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BaltACD

The final mile in most FedEx deliveries is performed by a indpendent contractor for FedEx.  Check the side of the delivery vehicle to get the name of the contractor.  Yes, the vehicle is painted in FedEx colors, but the contractos identity is shown on the side of the vehicle.

UPS delivery is done by UPS employees in UPS vehicles. 

Being a seasonal UPS employee myself.. We also use IC's or what we call Personal Vehicle Drivers (PVD). 

Also rental vehicles are normal for peak season. Many of our METROS (Air Meets) were using rented Dodge Grand Caravan's this past season. All parcel providers use rentals during peak to handle demand..

To Backshop what you speak is called Surepost where UPS hands off lower volume parcels blocks and peak volume to USPS due to cost. It's cheaper to have USPS handle these parcels.

 

 

In my delivery areas I have never seen UPS use anything other than UPS uniformed drivers in UPS vehicles.  YMMV.

 

In my neighborhood, there's a distinct pattern.  If your package is delivered before 2 PM, it comes in someone's car.  If it comes after 2 PM, UPS truck.  Yesterday, it was a guy in a Subaru Outback.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

A few weeks ago I was coming out of the drugstore when UPS was making a delivery in a leased Penske truck.  It did have a brown panel marked "leased to UPS" stuck on each side.