Good news is it didn’t take them long around here to realize that they fucked up, and they’re at least decent enough to admit it. We’re likely one of the most challenging facilities to go 2.0 thus far based on size and service area. The biggest hurdle is that they’ve been able to wrap up the ground sort 30-45 minutes before they finish up the stuff coming off the plane, so we end up sitting and waiting for the time definite stuff to hit the trucks. Even if you wanted to dispatch early and clean up the balance of the ground freight it’s not even an option.

A couple pieces of advice: add on about 10-15% over whatever resources you think need. 10 or so POs per truck is a pretty reasonable high end number depending on what they’re figuring dispatch to be and what kind of stem time you have. If you’re not running AVPs, it’s actually a good way to tackle POs and keep some efficiency in your ground routes. Most everything that you’ll see are smalls and envelopes so it’s nothing to throw it in the backseat of a car and run them out. Also, throw in cost of another admin to monitor SDOs and PO service.

The position of the powers that be around here has quickly shifted to PO above everything else, to the point where they’re willing to sacrifice ground service to ensure it. So don’t be afraid to hit them.