Get Your Orders In, UPS Likely To Go On Strike…

[Flingarrows]

I'm waiting on 9 orders. One was reordered because it disappeared in shipping, stainless exhaust for the truck.

Man, how do they lose something that large

 

[Sigblitz]

Man, how do they lose something that large

Delivered it to their the wrong house?

 

[Ingomike]

Man, how do they lose something that large

IDK, our government has lost nukes so there is that…

 

[Mgderf]

I'm getting daily notices from suppliers that it is going to be a problem. Then the backlogs.

Buckle up boys and girls...

 

[boogieman]

If this does happen and people switch to FedEx, I would expect deliveries to take a day or 2 longer than normal. It will be physically impossible for the delivery drivers to get everything done in a day so some thing will have to be pushed back to the next day. The delivery drivers are subject to DOT laws that limit their driving days to a total of 12 hours and they are supposed to have a minimum of 10 hours off. Point is I wouldn't get to excited about getting things as on time as normal.

 

[WebSnyper]

If this does happen and people switch to FedEx, I would expect deliveries to take a day or 2 longer than normal. It will be physically impossible for the delivery drivers to get everything done in a day so some thing will have to be pushed back to the next day. The delivery drivers are subject to DOT laws that limit their driving days to a total of 12 hours and they are supposed to have a minimum of 10 hours off. Point is I wouldn't get to excited about getting things as on time as normal.

And I would expect that to continue to backlog more and more, the longer any strike goes.

 

[Ingomike]

This will bog down the entire system, everything will be affected…

 

[d.kaufman]

Was chatting with my UPS driver (been dealing with him for 25 years) today about the potential for a strike. He said there isn't going to be a strike. Now I don't know if corporate bigwigs are telling drivers that if customers inquire, to say that, but I have zero reason not to believe him. Let's hope he's right

 

[Ingomike]

UPS, Teamsters avoid massive strike, reach tentative agreement on new contract

After months of negotiations, strike threats and walkout talks, UPS and Teamsters have reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract.

www.usatoday.com

 

[Ingomike]

Was chatting with my UPS driver (been dealing with him for 25 years) today about the potential for a strike. He said there isn't going to be a strike. Now I don't know if corporate bigwigs are telling drivers that if customers inquire, to say that, but I have zero reason not to believe him. Let's hope he's right

Sounds like he was right to me…

 

[HoughMade]

Peter butt plug will handle this. Nothing to worry about.

This is a DOL issue, maybe DOC, but certainly not a DOT issue.

 

[Mounty09]

Was chatting with my UPS driver (been dealing with him for 25 years) today about the potential for a strike. He said there isn't going to be a strike. Now I don't know if corporate bigwigs are telling drivers that if customers inquire, to say that, but I have zero reason not to believe him. Let's hope he's right

I talked to mine today too, he is also a long time driver. He said it has been decided for awhile and this is just a big show. He has seen shipments increase as companies have been ordering extra incase of strike.

He also said he doesn't think he will ever see an air conditioned truck. Also talked about how ac in trucks won't work well when the back of the truck is 100 degrees, they shut their truck off at every stop, and are always opening and closing doors.

 

[Ark]

Me seeing this resolved a day or two before $1400 worth of rifle ships out to me

 

[Peacekeeper3073]

When the pilots said they won’t cross the picket lines knew then there would be no strike. Great job to them for standing up for their co-workers on the ground.

 

[mmpsteve]

I use UPS in my business. Rates had already gone up substantially the last few years. Should be interesting going forward.

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[Gaffer]

Looks like a tentative agreement has been reached?

https://www.wbiw.com/2023/07/25/ups...unionized-workers-potentially-dodging-strike/

 

[xwing]

Yes, confirmed on multiple sources that the strike has been called off. Hopefully this new contract won't raise prices too much, but it probably will. The cost to ship anything these days is insane!

 

[Ingomike]

The cost to do anything these days is insane!

FIFY

 

[xwing]

The cost to do anything these days is insane!

Yes, partially true. Inflation affects everything, but some prices have gone up a lot more than others in the past 10 years.

Shipping is so high now it makes no sense to buy or sell low-priced goods. When I buy something cheap on ebay, the shipping cost is more than the item. This is the reason I buy a lot of cheap things from China. The shipping is really low, because it's based on yuan at the source, and not dollars at the destination. You can ship from China to Indiana far cheaper than shipping from Indiana to Indiana.

 

[1nderbeard]

Yes, confirmed on multiple sources that the strike has been called off. Hopefully this new contract won't raise prices too much, but it probably will. The cost to ship anything these days is insane!

Sorry, this hope was lost two years ago