Originally Posted by
robertorolfo
I think the volume is just too great. You would need a hoard of bikes and riders.
I'm not sure about your office, but the volume of deliveries that comes into mine every day is astounding. It's a WeWork, so you have a lot of different small companies crammed into a few floors, but pretty much every day you have the FedEx, UPS, USPS and Amazon guys/gals bringing in carts full of packages that would fill up that bike. And we are just 3 floors, in one office, on one block...
UPS is pretty good at the logistics thing. Some place like yours would still get the truck, while all the onsie-twosie stuff would go out by bike.
Originally Posted by
RubeRad
I have a friend who is a UPS driver, and they do double up in the truck at Christmas time. I guess one guy can be busy grabbing packages while the other guy focuses just on driving. Less time with the truck standing still.
I used to ride shotgun on a UPS route as my X-mas job during my undergrad. I'd take the parcels for one block and jump off, while the driver would go up to the next block and do the drops there, then pick me up and drive to the next street. Repeat until the truck's empty. I was on the truck for 6.5-7 hours a day, and in the week before X-mas we'd do ~300 deliveries a day.