I don't work on that end. I deliver the final mile.
For the first time in many years we did not lease extra vans for Christmas, all the operating funds have gone to paying overtime is my guess. I went from an average of $70K to about $120K due to mandated overtime this year. The spare maintenance vehicles are out on the streets with the holiday help carriers. as the regular maintenance schedule has been suspended.
Meanwhile our brothers in brown are using their 2-to trucks as motherships while temporary help in their personal vehicles use the truck as a mobile station to reload. FedEx Express has a lot of old vans on the street, being franchises I haven't noticed any increase in FedEx Ground. And Amazon logistics have a lot more uniformed folks out.
Back in January there was a major panic in my district since Amazon was doing more of their own work. We were going into route adjustments as the service was preparing to eliminate more jobs. I was inspected that first week of panic in February when the toilet paper shortage hit and the panic buys of everything at the market happened. And not only was the Amazon volume was back but at Christmas levels throughout the year.
Since my station did not mandate Sunday delivery today and is just taking volunteers to supplement the Christmas help let me sign off of work issues for a while and enjoy the day for what used to be the last push. However since the advent of scanners and GPS tracking that last push has lingered onto January the last few years.
