Originally posted by DaVillen
Originally posted by ADisbeliever
Ok here it is, i work for UPS. I stack about 1,200 packages per hour into several trailers, most weighing more than 100lbs.
[edit on 31-7-2008 by ADisbeliever]
1200 packages per hour and most weighing more than 100lbs?
That sounds next to impossible. Are these packages on skids?
Reason i ask is because i use to work in a retail store where it would take 45 minutes for 3 to 4 of us to unload a 500 piece trailer by hand (most
boxes only weighed 30lbs on average).
Not impossible but very difficult.
This is by far one of the most physically demanding jobs in the world, unless you worked doing this for UPS, DHL, or Fedex before, you would never
understand.
When people get their box delivered to their front door, they don't really stop to consider what kind of work people did to get that box to you.
on the plus side, the pay is great.
Oh, and 3 to 4 of you to unload a 500 peice trailer?
I don't work unload, only load, but unloaders here have to unload their own trailer, and they are expected to unload a 1,200 peice trailer all by
themselves in 45 minutes or less. If they don't, it's not like they get fired, but 1,200/45 mins is the goal.
[edit on 31-7-2008 by ADisbeliever]
[edit on 31-7-2008 by ADisbeliever]