NFR Bah Humbug
- Thread starter Rob Allen
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After 35 Christmas' at United Parcel Service, this is my first one as a non UPSer. Bring on the Christmas music! Bring on the decorations! I'm all in this year!
Capt Insano Emeritis
Legend
Every Christmas season I play this as one of the few christmas songs I actually really like
Paige
Wishing I was fishing the Sauk
Well @Rob Allen I am one who loves the holiday! Even when it causes swearing white putting the tree up but, then I am festive! Finished the tree last night, and there is a theme to my ornaments...
First year decorations are up in the house first week of December. This weekend I'll even hang outdoor lights. First in almost 20 years.
I'm not working at the moment, did the last 12 years in shops and loving not having to be anywhere near a store! Even in a bit of a Christmas mood! Cheers!
Lake flyer
Steelhead
Relax,
Christmas only comes once a year for two and a half months.
Christmas only comes once a year for two and a half months.
No, more like 4 months. It'll start up in early October and usually ends in late Jan/early Feb.
Mark Melton
Life of the Party
I always appreciated Eric Idles Xmas song.
I saw a few laughed at this. It was actually serious. 35 Christmases (aka Peaks) at UPS I saw the change. Used to start the Monday after Black Friday and end Christmas Eve.
Now Peak starts beginning of October and ends mid January, sometimes into February. We see more volume on the Monday after Black Friday than on our Peak day a decade ago.
Actually I feel it starts in July now.. some store start decorating earlier and earlier.. working in retail for too long.. I'm a bit jaded, but this year I'm off through the season and loving it! Will start a new sales job sometime in early January and it's in IT, so no retail for me.. Lots of potential too, financially I mean! Cheers and Merry Christmans!
Well deliveries on Christmas displays and decorations have always been in June and July to bigger stores. That leaves the actual Christmas shopping months for shipping of actual retail goods (as in presents not decorations). It's always been that way in all of my 32 years as a delivery driver. In fact, what a lot of people don't understand, most Christmas buying is done the year before. So what you see in the shops right now was ordered in January this year. Why it's hard to restock the hot items. To get more production done, shipped to US, then out to stores, Christmas will be over.
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Just heard the song 'text me merry christmas' for the first time in the store... what a hot piece of 
, officially bah humbug now.
, officially bah humbug now.
The grinch is the hero of the story when you realize he's just an introverted dog person who's tired of capitalism. Notice how he begins respecting the Whos when they celebrate Christmas without all the material goods--q.e.d.
It’s me! Except I’m an introverted cat person.