twarr1
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I can vouch for this quote. My son is a manager at a major UPS hub and he sometimes has to fill in at the training role. He doesn’t like it because he knows out of 100 new hires, maybe 1 or 2 will last longer than the 12 weeks it takes to re-qualify for unemployment.Now they put new hires through a training class and then they start on the sorting or loading line, without any supervision.
My last 3 hazmat orders were all delayed, two from Midway who said “No hazmat drivers”. Midway USA is my go-to retailer, but I think in this case they’re giving the expedient answer, not necessarily the true answer.
UPS only accepts hazmat shipments on a contract basis. I suspect the details of Midways contract is a good portion of the reason for their long hazmat shipment times.
Midway’s ‘economy’ shipping is the “bottom of the barrel, we’ll ship it when we’re not busy with something else” service. That’s USPS, not Midway. Midway is great about getting it to USPS, but then it may sit in several warehouses for many days before it arrives. I’ve spoken to Midway a few times about this but they claim we all want the mule-train service.