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In many cities, UPS tells its drivers to park illegally and then pays the resulting tickets in bulk. It's a cost of doing business for them. This cost is limite
by sjburt 9y ago
In many cities, UPS tells its drivers to park illegally and then pays the resulting tickets in bulk. It's a cost of doing business for them. This cost is limited by the number of parking enforcement vehicles.
If the cost were increased enough (perhaps by enforcing the law more aggressively), UPS might choose a different strategy such as telling its drivers to park legally and walk further.
- jfk13 9y agoApparently the parking fines are not high enough.
- kevin_b_er 9y agoDoes a flesh and blood person suffer from increased fines for repeated violations? Then so should a corporate person.
- gnud 9y agoThat sounds a bit weird to me. A company shouldn't be allowed to instruct it's employees to break the law - not even traffic regulations. So the fee should go to the driver, not to the company. I think that might solve the issue quickly.
- jandrese 9y agoYou're basically asking the drivers to perform a miracle every time they deliver a package. Anybody who lasts more than a week would qualify for Catholic sainthood. Saint Jim, patron saint of on-street parking.
- jopsen 9y agoMaybe delivery services should be more expensive? You are subsidizing private enterprise by tolerating organized violation of traffic laws. If you want delivery companies to be allowed to behave this way, then make a law. It's perfectly reasonable for a municipality to except certified delivery companies from some traffic rules...
- jandrese 9y agoHow much surcharge should you expect for the ability to perform a verifiable miracle on demand? An actual workable solution would be to simply not allow deliveries to a building unless it has an available commercial delivery spot. That may make some businesses unhappy however. Residents may be unhappy to see entire sections of the city suddenly have no walkup businesses as well.
- jopsen 9y agoHaving a driver and a delivery guy who steps out with the packages could also work... Point is, you can change prices, stop offering the service, or fix the law. But allowing businesses to ignore the law is not a good idea. Change the law instead, if that's what you want.
- Merad 9y agoYears ago I worked at UPS while going to community college. This was in a suburban/semi-rural area of NC. At our UPS center, the wait time to become a full-time driver was around 7-8 years (union seniority rules and all). Management never got tired of reminding people that if you were willing to transfer to Charlotte, NC, you could land a driver job in as little as 6 months. For some reason they never had any takers...
- ptaipale 9y ago> UPS tells its drivers to park illegally and then pays the resulting tickets in bulk. Interesting. Over here, a company cannot deduct parking tickets (or similar payments). They are not cost of business and are therefore directly reducing the EBIT i.e. money of shareholders. Also, they are treated as taxable income to the person who got the ticket, if identifiable (here enforcement is weaker, but the outcome is that no company pays parking tickets for its employees.)