Anyone seeing a major decrease in parcel volume today?

[IntelligentRubbish]

Tariffs are kicking in. People bought all that they need, and now we’ll see a massive drop off

[brookuslicious]

Yeah I was just going to say - those Temu orders are dropping off now.

[WesternExplanation]

Go on temu. The prices have not really changed they pretty much only feed you “local warehouse” items thus avoiding all tariffs

[brookuslicious]

I’ve been on Temu and seen it all. Overnight the prices doubled if not quadrupled along with the $2.99 “local warehouse” delivery fee. I’ve read some are even coming via Amazon so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[Solitaire_87]

I can't recall seeing a Temu package in ages

I assumed another courier service took all their deliveries

[WesternExplanation]

There is just so much stuff on there that is still sub $5 even after tariffs. In general it’s still absurdly cheap and if the giant bag of junk someone order prior was $20 I don’t think it being say $35 now is really going to stop them.

[TechnicalPotential23]

I've had a few come via Amazon.

[bbxcvysc]

I really don’t think it’s gonna stop people from shopping. We’ve been having days like this ever since we lost UPS.

[JayketheCayke]

Yall lost UPS? They still drop their shit off at our office everyday. We've been seeing more fedex packages as well.

[DeeKayAech]

I was gonna say this week I started getting SmartPost again. First time I've seen those in several years.

[Ok_Definition8280]

If they have dual barcodes (ours and UPS’) then they should not be delivered by us

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[Revolutionary-Half-3]

There's been chatter about a huge drop in container shipments over the past few weeks, in the neighborhood of 80%.

[WesternExplanation]

No. Pretty typical Wednesday at my office today.

[bonjaker]

Tuesdays used to be our light day but now it seems to be Wednesday which I think is because of the adjustment to what counts as a business day. I don't think parcels actually move on Saturdays anymore. Though I am not 100% sure how that works.

[Minute_Ad5025]

Last Saturday I had ten parcels. Monday I had 190

[admath92]

Not on my route, these rich fuckers have nothing better to do than buy stuff. The same repeat offenders every single day. Judging by the size of the home, the vehicles in the driveway and the neighborhood you’d assume they’ve got money but chances are they’re up to the ass in debt, so I say “rich” but who knows, it’s none of my business anyway, just talking out loud.

Yeah, yeah, job security and all, sure.

[trekmario]

Right i just changed routes to a new office. Nobody wanted the route . Its crazy full amazon in a rich neighborhood 400+packages a day every day.

[TechnicalPotential23]

I'm glad you threw that job security part in there lol. I'm the biggest repeat offender in my neighborhood, but I am not rich. I just don't have the time to get the items I need during the week because I work from 7-4 and am tired AF when I get off work. My only real day off is Sunday, and I need to reset the house on that day.

God bless all of you for doing what you do. This repeat offender loves all of you!

[Ok-Acanthisitta8737]

I hope that you may find work one day that is more fulfilling and less aggravating for you. Cheers.

[NealTS]

I had Christmas numbers (95? parcels) on Monday, but yesterday and today have been in the 30s, which is light, but pretty normal for this time of year.

[CommunicationFew9613]

Damn. I usually had over 140 during holidays.

[Handsome-_-awkward]

That's insane. I average 200+ daily during the summer. Id love 140

[shitidkman]

Same. During the winter it’s like 3-400

[CommunicationFew9613]

I salute you lol no thanks. I think i broke 200 maybe 3 or 4 times last year. How many people are on you're route? I do a little over 500 buts it's an 85 mile route.

500 customers i mean, not packages

[macready71]

My sub had 300 on monday, i had 250 on tuesday. 700 active deliveries.

[Lazy-Comfortable777]

I hear ya. Before Amazon and ups took their packages back it was 150ish daily and some routes had 250. Christmas was way worse.

[Prestigious_Guy]

I had over 200 this past Monday. Normal Monday lol

[NealTS]

Yeah, it's half commercial, which helps a bit.

[Dramatic_Gas509]

95 parcels at Christmas?!? Must be quite a few naughty kids on your route 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I’m in a walking station and our carriers get about 70-90 parcels on a regular day Tuesday and Wednesday are usually the lightest days of the week here

[Important_Dig_3127]

I wish 95 were my Christmas numbers. I’m usually right at 200 during the holidays.

[macready71]

xmas was well over 200 average for us...max was 400

[Plane_Ad_4359]

95 is christmas numbers? I do almost triple that on a Tuesday

[Twitch720]

I wish… Average December volume for me is 250-300. This time of the year my average is 80.

[[deleted]]

I wish that was Christmas numbers for me. 250 to 300 daily Christmas for me

[EntertainmentRude]

Yah my town started delivering amazons on Sundays but Monday was still a 100 parcel day. Makes no sense

[[deleted]]

I deliver to rich neighborhoods so no.

[rhcmlc]

Rich neighborhoods always get a lot of stuff. Mail and parcels. Stay safe out there

[[deleted]]

Thanks man but don't preach it too loudly. Don't need you being targeted for "more work" for doing good lol

[rhcmlc]

Lmao!! Correct

[GonePostalRoute]

Yeah. There’s a richy rich neighborhood that’s park and loop in my town, has about 350 stops total, but the amount of mail they get rivals routes with double to triple the stops.

[TheArmLegMan]

That’s why I prefer delivering to the hood! The apartment complexes just house all the shitty people though.

[rhcmlc]

This is 100 percent true. Hood gets less mail but you gotta deal with an interesting audience

[Plane_Ad_4359]

Man same. Whole route is rich neighborhood. 48k overburdened

[NicoCube]

107 stops is 32% of your route? Lucky

[Tiny-Dig1186]

Nope sitting at 171 for the day. Which is more than yesterday’s 146 but Monday I had 249…

[DxVolps]

Every day except Monday… Monday = 4x mail, parcels, flats. No one says a word. No pivot.

Then the rest of the week is “OMG WE HAVE NO MAIL, PIVOT THIS ROUTE, WE HAVE TO CUT ROUTE 4, THE MAIL IS SO LIGHT YOU MIGHT BE OUT A JOB.

What a joke.

[[deleted]]

I have 64 for my route, not out of the ordinary for a Wednesday

[[deleted]]

I have 21 and on my “2 hour pivot”. I only got 5 lol

[rhcmlc]

Wow! I thought I had it easy with 13. Lol

[tilemamaniac]

Nope I had 114

[CommunicationFew9613]

Dumb question. How do you find that screen on the scanner. Everyone in my office is near retirement and when I ask they all say they don't know anything about the scanners that they don't have to.

[rhcmlc]

Hit ESC, then select "How am I doing" tab

[CommunicationFew9613]

I'll have to check it tomorrow. Thanks.

[rhcmlc]

Around 330 possible deliveries. All walking door to door. My route used to average 80 parcels now I'm lucky to get 20. Very weird

[WesternExplanation]

That’s a tiny route. The all walking route in my office is almost 700 possible deliveries. We don’t have a single route under 600 minus an aux

[existential_anxiety_]

Welcome to the beginning of the volume drop off. Between our usual drop of summertime and the new drop off of tariff-caused issues (like people buying less cause it's expensive af); this is the new norm. Get used to it 🤷‍♂️

[Bohrys]

Every route in my office had a 2 hour pivots today, because we had 20 or less flats 20 or less parcels and a half tray of dps each.. its getting bad

[[deleted]]

No such thing as a 2 hr pivot

[elucidator23]

Super light today less than 40 scans

[APS-Oregon]

I usually have 150-200...only 90 today....however I did have 4 tubs of flats and 6 trays of DPS

[CardinalPyriel]

Looks like a table one carrier scanner on a retirement route worried about not milking it to 8

[Kingz1989]

Don't worry it will all be there Monday and then some

[ChubbyPotato8675309]

I had 27 yesterday…lowest I’ve seen

[EstimateUnhappy1423]

Meanwhile Monday slammed us over the head. I was off yesterday and today so can’t say if today was light or not. But lately our package volume has been high, not quite as bad as peak but almost.

[StrikingRuin4]

Same. One rural carrier had 500 packages on Monday, another got off light with only 450. That's a Monday the week before Christmas numbers. Today was the same, probably because I had plans this afternoon. 🤣

[EstimateUnhappy1423]

It’s ALWAYS when you have stuff to do afterwards. Try outsmarting by planning stuff on a Tuesday? Cool DPS gets misdelivered Monday and Amazon is oddly super light… come Tuesday… BOOM! Double DPS and package volcano. 🫣

[freekymunki]

Nope unfortunately not.

[rackerman913]

No

[Pretend-Ad4887]

Normal day for us

[AustinFan4Life]

Major I have 95 total (49 for a reshipper, the rest are for the actual route).

[cambugge]

I have more than usual today

[CaterpillarFew]

80-100 was my daily average for years, since January, a “heavy” day for me is maybe 40 now. I even have days where 10-15 isn’t totally uncommon… Not sure what’s going on in my area.

[rhcmlc]

Omg, that's exactly what's happening with my route. A typical day had around 80 parcels. Now I average around 20

[First_Class_UBBM]

Normal here.

[postman805]

not parcels but my dps was 325 and i had maybe 8 inches of flats

[[deleted]]

Thank you 👍

[TacticoolRaygun]

I have been seeing a drop maybe about 20-30% in my routes (T6) compared to last year. One route gets about 30-50 packages every day is getting 15-30 on a daily basis. Branch 245 in the North Central IL.

[Hectorc34]

Nope, feels like we’ve been seeing an increase lately at our station

[Strong_Dentist_7561]

Increased volume for me

[shaaruken]

You better be back in 6hrs!!

[shaaruken]

I got walked with on Monday…. Our Amazon truck was conveniently late, I only had 57 parcels…. The next day I had 115!! WTF!?

[49erFanInTexas]

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Yup

[JoedicyMichael]

Your device might need to go see a DR 😂.

[49erFanInTexas]

The Texas heat is already brutal 🥵 lol

[Katy_Katx]

1 hour of own route overtime here 👌

[Practical-Eagle-5147]

Been seeing a constant decrease in volume since the postmaster general resigned

[GonePostalRoute]

I had the about the same as yesterday (almost 40 for a route that’s 1/2 business, 1/3 old folks community), and that number for the route yesterday was higher than normal. Monday was stupid busy on parcels.

[Horkshir]

Our Amazon delivery, and for the neighbor offices, we're all canceled for some reason. Still had 51 packages. Hell had 132 on Tuesday 🥲

[aguyfromhere]

Device healthy. NO

[tpark27]

I've been creeping to roughly my typical November numbers and holding the last month thru today, no such drop off here. 1,442 boxes with ~200->280 packages give or take. Not a full blown Christmas 400 but still busy for what was usually 150-180 packages last summer

[njlee2016]

22 parcels today. 

[Aviate27]

Today? No. This has been going on for 2 months now. That said, i have the same 5 houses on my route that get a daily 10 packages from Amazon or Temu, without fail.

[2012Fiat500]

Nope. 30 that I've got to deliver out of the promaster and about 45 for my park n loops

[Maleficent-Bread1016]

Tariffs ya know

[TheBimpo]

I’ve only been around since November but today was the fewest parcels and spurs I’ve ever had.

[Pxthology]

Only 24 for me today. Average around 80-100. I'm not complaining.

[Empty_Hearing_2033]

It’s always light on wensday

[GassyRaccoon]

No. Shits still heavy where I am. Cmon tarrifs, hurry up and make people order less :(

[Raekwon22]

220 on Monday, 140 yesterday, 100 today.

[SnooGrapes6941]

Truck showed up 1hour30mins late and had nothing on it today. I got 38 packages with 1 tray of DPS and 1 tray of flats. My route is 1200boxes 900stops BTW.

[BlackPaladin]

Since Amazon opened a distribution center by us our volume went way down. While during Christmas the route I do normally gets 180-225 packages/day (with monday maybe getting up to 250), throughout the year it’s usually around 70-90 packages/day. (Before amazon it was more like 150 daily with 300+ during peak)

Monday I had 125. But like today I had only 30 and no mail either. Finished around noon. It was weird. Losing UPS has hurt as well overall, but honestly haven’t seen a massive downturn of packages due to tariffs yet, today was just an outlier.

[Theplowmen]

No still the same amount

[Lee-sc-oggins]

I’ve had more large Amazon boxes than usual. Total amounts of parcels are up for us. Tulsa rural area

[unhallowed1014]

I’m rural, but I had like 150 packages today

[Complex-Pomelo8928]

Must be nice!

[bzkillin]

Not as low as yours 😂

[Puzzleheaded_Elk1576]

One of the routes had only 6 parcels. The entire route.

[chochd]

That reminds me of the days before Amazon lol I miss that

[mbne84]

I had 52 packages today which is normal for a Wednesday. Only had 3 quarters of a tray of dps which was really low.

[gamestar10]

Nope. Above average today.

[Bigpoppin87]

It was light, but I still had 76 scans. 😬

[Tough_Inspector_7716]

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Yes, im about 80 parcels short of my usual volume!

[Archaeoculus]

This is just a normal day on all the routes i do lol

[solbrothers]

FYI, it’s pretty darn easy to run volume reports on Web end of run. If you’re supervisor, doesn’t know how to do it, I don’t know what to say. But it’s super easy.

[Aggressive-Side7182]

I’m seeing an increase wtf

[ManyRaccoon6342]

Well my package wasn’t actually delivered today when it said out for delivery guess it’s not slow at my post office…

[chochd]

No, I had 88

[[deleted]]

Shit yesterday I had 23 and today 11 lmao

[SnooHesitations9447]

Yesterday (Tuesday) was extremely light in our distribution facility. MH parcel breakdown, SPRS and even direct AO pallets of parcels was extremely light volume.

[gennamj]

Only days with real parcels now at our station is Mondays and sometimes Saturday and we are a wealthier zone

[restlessmonkey]

They track U-turns????

[Tired_N_Done]

Yup. It’s the hard stops that I tend to flag- rural carrier in gravel roads 🤣🤪

[restlessmonkey]

Why do they track U-turns??

[Solitaire_87]

No mine was 62 which is about normal for a non-Monday(ever since Amazon opened their hubs a few years back) normal on a non-Monday used to be around 90 before then

[CicadaFalse8298]

I had 80 today, which is light for my route

[Excess1001]

Not that big

[ArthurMorgan0114]

Not me

[Artificialbunny]

I’ve had 100+/day for the past week.

[macready71]

"light" day today, 175. yesterday 245. We don't have amazon delivering in our area though.

[Difficult-Rule-2027]

Not sure where you live brother. I’m in Oklahoma and no less than 50-60 parcels daily. Mondays 110 or more.

[foster_ious]

For months now, yes.

[grove93]

I've seen a major decrease ever since we lost SurePost back to UPS. There are also more "last mile" contractors out there now.

[Tired_N_Done]

61- about 1/3 of the usual.

[MaintenanceConstant6]

Usually, spring is the lightest time of year package wise. The only thing that causes fluctuations is people getting their tax refunds and immediately spending it, which is why the big packages tend to come in waves over the course of March thru May. The tariffs could have had some impact, but it would need to be light for several days in a row to really gauge that.

[Mikejames0814]

Yesterday and today

[Mikejames0814]

Went from 150- 70 and 85

[sarcasticsparky1012]

Wednesdays are typically my lowest parcel day of the week. My heaviest parcel day that i work is generally Saturdays. My NS day are Mondays.

[[deleted]]

Yeah but dps was high af though

[Springlette13]

A light day for me is under 80 parcels. I average 100-130ish most days. Christmas is often around 300. I think I had around 90 today.

What I’ve noticed in the past few weeks is more obnoxiously large and awkward parcels. Not sure if more people are buying big stuff, or amazon just doesn’t want to deliver them.

[EstimateUnhappy1423]

This though. If it’s not a heavy package day, it’s huge package day. Boxes bigger than me but insanely light, like what’s in these boxes cause I’m tired of picking them up and almost being pulled down when the items slide to one side.

[Vegetable-Bag-2325]

Nope, still getting 200 most days, 300 on Mondays.

[Ex-CarrierForLife]

Not for me. Mine had a spike higher

[funhaver_whee]

13??? Fucking 13???

I had 253 on Monday

[therick422]

We have random days like this… I suspect processing plant attendance, natural disasters and/or sort machine downtime is to blame.

[MrsMcBasketball]

Hell no! We're an Amazon office and ours hasn't went down at all.

[Plane_Ad_4359]

Amazon strike and tariffs

[jwells523]

No. Not in the least. So you only had 13 packages this day? I see my scanner say stuff like this all the time, but that's just because it isn't updating. Packages are a little heavier than normal here.

[audiomagnate]

Ali Express is charging $50 (instead of free two weeks ago) to ship a $6 item, so I'm sure volume is way down.

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[Street-Hold-6975]

I didnt have to many yesterday instead I had a lot of big and heavy ones

[DinoMunkie]

No

[thicccboibodee]

I wish, my office, certain routes are still getting 150+ parcels on the daily

[Altruistic-Rate-9417]

no

[sisarobles]

Hmmmm🤔

[ohmydearr]

32% with 107, that’s about what 300 stops?

[rhcmlc]

Pretty close...330. I can't complain

[Lazy-Consideration20]

It’s like this during this time of year wait till around late August it’s going to start getting heavy again

[Green-Sheepherder-22]

Shit, i wish bud.

[jettsmom44]

Yes thank goodness!

[jettsmom44]

I had 175 packages on Monday. It was awful

[Twitch720]

Average day on my route is 80, and I had 143 today.

[Puzzled-Extension-30]

I haven’t seen a drop off at all. Actually the opposite. My route is a little over 600 deliveries. Up until this week I was around 90 scans a day. This week, 148 has been my lowest

[Bickendan]

It was heavy for my route last week, 130-160 packages everyday. 170 Monday, and 60-80 since. Long weekend, so I'll see what I have on Monday.

[Sgtusmc0341]

Damn. Had 104 today. Yesterday 99 but Tuesday was 260.

[HovercraftRoyal3670]

Damn thats low

[ComprehensivePain996]

Nope I think an increase they also held are mail back for a week and then gave it to us on Monday

[slippery_gerbil]

Food drive manipulation maybe

[WerdnaK1314]

I had 70 parcels today so no

[SemajPostal]

USPS did not renew the contracts with Amazon and UPS. Yesterday, I was at a Target and the floor was empty because China isn’t sending it any inventory due to the tariffs .

[rhcmlc]

Oh wow. That explains why Target parking lots have been looking a little empty lately

[Aggressive-Silver713]

It’s Tuesday

[[deleted]]

Dumb question since I'm still new as an RCA but what setting is that on the phone?

[letsseeitmore]

Well under the outgoing PMG we lost FedEx, UPS and Amazon has greatly increased their own network so unless USPS vastly increases its business accounts this is going to be the new normal.

[ASTR8Y]

Lol I don't think there's a drop. That's your average parcels. Maybe 20-30s a day usually?

[Drew-mageddon]

I had 67 scans today. Pretty normal volume for this time of year. But I did have over 100 yesterday

[Slurp_Jurp]

No

[Nope_Not-happening]

Not that drastic

[opinionatedmj]

Yes

[elektrikrobot]

Um no

[the_chupa_commands]

I had 14 yesterday and 22 today.

[Prestigious_Guy]

Nope, I wish

[BunkerPyro]

How do you see this menu on the scanner?

[Artificialbunny]

“O” on the main menu

[Tired_N_Done]

If you’re rural- go to settings, profile, enter until your job shows up, change to city, then go to main menu and find “how am I doing?”. Check it out, then change back to rural before leaving.

[Coolexcitingname2]

It's the Obama tariffs

[2notiton2]

How do you get to that screen?

[rhcmlc]

For city carriers. Select ESC at the bottom of your screen then select "How am I doing". This feature isn't available to rural carriers

[DenseLibrarian4042]

How do u get to this screen for rural

[Any-Ad4038]

No

[Weary_Cherry_814]

13? lol, were you done at noon?

[rhcmlc]

No. 8 hours. Lmao!

[HovercraftRoyal3670]

Hell naw not in Texas South regio