ShipGreener: Hey UPS, is this the best you can do?
We’re not turning left anymore
With $1 billion in IT spent per year, nearly 5,000 IT staff, 384,000 employees, 15 mainframes, 8,700 servers, 250,000 PCs, 2,700 networked sites, 474 terabytes of storage, 500 applications, 10 million tracking requests per day, 88,000 vehicles, 90,000 handheld devices and the ninth largest airline, and this is the best efficiency idea they come up with?
Is this the best you can do? please tell me your kidding UPS. Look HERE to see one problem that could use some solving. If you thought I was kidding about UPS (REALLY) not wanting to make left-hand turns click HERE
if you’re too lazy to click through that last link here is an excerpt from Jenn @ http://blog.everydayrandomness.net
“About a week after I found out about the “no left turns” I started noticing the driver parking in the middle of the road. It wasn’t our normal driver, and he was delivering something to my Grandparent’s house, so I thought maybe he just doesn’t know if he can turn around in their driveway. There wasn’t any traffic on the roads, so no biggie.
“A few weeks later I saw the same guy do it again, and that kind of pissed me off because we live on a very dangerous road. Here was this huge UPS truck parked in the middle of the lane in a blind curve!
“We’ve got a huge driveway and plenty of room to turn around, so screw how much gas UPS thinks they’re saving. How is it good to save gas if you’re creating a DANGEROUS situation? Making a left turn into my driveway, then circling around to pull out of the driveway is nothing compared to what’s going to happen when someone comes around that curve with a UPS truck parked in the middle of the lane!
“This morning I decided I was going to call UPS to file a complaint, but guess what! It’s virtually impossible to get through to anyone for a complaint! There’s no option with the 1-800 #. There isn’t even a “general questions” or similar. I finally had to go through the option to check tracking before I got a human on the phone, and even then I was told they didn’t know how to contact for complaints.”
Tags: efficiencies, fuel usage, UPS
