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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
The same 100 trucks are already running Tues-Thurs.
You could actually reduce the trucks needed. For simplicity, say 14 work M-F, 14 Tue-Sat, 14 W-Sun, and so on. On any given day you only need 72 trucks now.
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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
That... doesn't seem to make sense to me. You're not bringing in extra staff, you're just spreading staff around to cover 7 days instead of bunching all their hours for 5 days. It's still the same amount of labour and truck hours, just spread over the whole week so you can cover all 7 days.
Lets be honest. Is CP even at full capacity during weekdays? I'd argue they can more than cover their daily needs with 70% of their weekday staff so they can re-deploy 30% to the weekend.
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Are you both under the impression that Canada Post only wants to add weekend delivery to maintain the current number of parcels delivered each week?
Assuming that CP are wanting to increase their business, if they are not adding part time and keeping full time only they will need additional vehicles.
Ideally they want to be running at capacity and likely are, otherwise they wouldn’t need to add weekend delivery to grow their business. So if they are losing drivers on any of their current days of operation as a result of, for example, moving half of the current staff to Sun-thurs and the other half to tue-sat then in order to maintain current service levels they would naturally need to double their workforce on Mondays and Fridays as a result. If they double their existing workforce on Mondays and fridays without the ability to use part time they would have 50% more employees as they currently do on Tuesday to Thursday with not enough vehicles for them to operate.
This is of course assuming that they only offer Sun-thurs and tue-sat shifts and don’t currently have 33% of their fleet being unused. The latter of which seems like a pretty safe bet. But even if they offered say thurs-mon shifts and/or Fri-tue shifts you would still have more staff than necessary on tuesdays and thursdays.
Yen Man, if your assumption that Canada post could simply spread around the existing work were true I think it would be pretty foolish for them to be fighting this hard just to be able to do that when they are currently getting the job done. It would make zero sense from the business’ perspective.