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Weather, Volume Cause Delays for UPS Air Network and Holiday Presents
Wintry weather earlier this week not only resulted in thousands of delayed and cancelled flights earlier as well power failures from Michigan to Maine but it also overwhelmed United Parcel Service’s air network.... (www.npr.org) Más...
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Ya know, as an employee of FedEx I can't exactly say that I'm surprised to find out that it wasn't just UPS having problems meeting delivery schedules.
It's amazing that people expect "perfection" and cannot understand the vagaries of weather and its impact...yet blame others for their own failure to plan ahead properly, and order their "gifts" well in advance. It's not as if "christmas" sneaked up on anyone.
For those of you who watch closely, UPS in particular went all out to cope with a record shipping season. Leasing 16 aircraft (747's), opening a remote sorting facility, and in some terminals ran 9 flights in one day to overcome weather and volume.