UPS, FedEx meteorologists get your packages to you on time

[littlemissmartypants]

The blizzard that has dumped inches of snow across the Midwest could not have come at a worse time for many travelers trying to get home for Christmas. It’s also pretty bad timing for the nation’s shipping companies on one of the busiest days of the year.
If they don’t deliver their packages on time, grandma may not get her scarf for Christmas, or worse, hundreds of companies may not live up to the promise they made to online shoppers to deliver packages in time to go under the tree.
Enter the meteorology teams from FedEx and UPS.
Each company employs in-house weather experts who examine jet streams, satellite images and temperature trends to make sure trucks and planes have all the information they need when delivering all those packages that need to get there now.
“They will tell you that a boring day for them is a good day for UPS because when the weather is quiet, that’s good. We can operate well,” said Mike Mangeot, a spokesman for UPS Airlines.
“When they are really, really busy, that’s usually not ideal for the company because we are going to have to deal with snow or a hurricane.”

Courtesy UPS
Jeff Sarver is a meteorology supervisor at UPS in Louisville, Ky.

The staff of five UPS meteorologists – located at the company’s Worldport international air hub in Louisville, Ky. – was certainly hard at work on Thursday, the busiest day of the holiday season for UPS and the second day of a massive winter storm that was disrupting travel in the Midwest.

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[otohara]

1. Ever Since I Can Remember It Was The US Post Office

the media did the Xmas shipping stories on.
Not this year, it's as if the USPS doesn't exist in corporate MSM

[HiPointDem]

2. +100

[Egalitarian Thug]

3. The USPS got all my stuff to me in two days at half the price of UPS ground,

which is advertised as 6 - 10 business days. Fuck UPS and FedEx.

[mailman82]

4. I was a letter carrier!

For thirty years,I volunteered to work late on Christmas eve! So all the packages were out. Not just me many mailmen would stay late. Or wasn't about the money for me. I loved Christmas when my kids were at home! Worked 4 hours on Christmas day,after my kids were grown. I was a dinosaur when I retired. I cared about the people on my route
Had the same route for 23 years.

[Scurrilous]

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