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Posted: 2/15/2021 9:57:17 PM EDT

The last time it was cancelled was 9/11

I’ve been with the company/Airline in Louisville for 17.5 years, and it’s always been on. Not even the 2009 Ice storm with 10 inches of ice/snow shut it down.

Honestly it should have been cancelled last Wednesday night. It took us until Friday night to get back to normal.

https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/ups-closes-worldport-monday-night-because-of-winter-storm/article_27701530-6fd5-11eb-b8bd-0b3aa0419c80.html

Posted: 2/15/2021 9:58:06 PM EDT

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Help me understand what you are talking about.

Posted: 2/15/2021 9:59:02 PM EDT

[#2]

Yeah this seems like a big deal but I have no idea why

Posted: 2/15/2021 9:59:13 PM EDT

[#3]

So.....what can Brown do for us?

Posted: 2/15/2021 9:59:55 PM EDT

[#4]

FPNI

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:00:32 PM EDT

[#5]

Wat?

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:01:01 PM EDT

[#6]

In for whatever

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:01:38 PM EDT

[#7]

Wat

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:01:48 PM EDT

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SDF is the UPS world hub airfield, used to be Standiford Field in Louisville, KY, and still the same airport code.

No idea about the 4009 bit; maybe a big plane?

I have known a large number of UPS folks; for them to outright cancel sorting anything is a big deal, that would involve them not basically printing money out of thin air. They don't cancel unless things are really FUBAR.

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:02:13 PM EDT

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Posted: 2/15/2021 10:02:20 PM EDT

[#10]

He'll respond in a few years....

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:02:54 PM EDT

[#11]

OP, explain like we are not UPS employees...

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:03:36 PM EDT

[#12]

ETA: Beat

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:04:09 PM EDT

[#13]

I’ve got a strong hankering for some ass.

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:04:22 PM EDT

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Updated OP with a news link so I don’t have to spend 10 mins explaining.

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:04:47 PM EDT

[#15]

FPNI again.

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:05:31 PM EDT

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I'm a former UPS employee and don't know what the 4009N sort is. I understand what a sort is but not that particular one. Hell, Louisville is mostly automated anyway.

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:06:27 PM EDT

[#17]

They canceled cause no workers showed up!

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:06:41 PM EDT

[#18]

Same day freight?

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:08:14 PM EDT

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Posted: 2/15/2021 10:10:46 PM EDT

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Posted: 2/15/2021 10:10:57 PM EDT

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Don't apologize. 19 posts in 8 years, we're fortunate you could drop by.

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:11:40 PM EDT

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Sorry; 4009N is lingo for the Louisville Worldport Next Day Air sort.

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:12:30 PM EDT

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I'm guessing that OP is a pilot/employee of the UPS airline operations side of the business.
UPS worldports are a big deal because they move a lot of overseas priority freight. just about anything you can imagine that will fit inside of a big plane.

The weather there is so bad/outlook terrible that they preemptively cancelled operations

by the way, 18 posts since 2013. lurker indeed.

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:13:59 PM EDT

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I see you missed the hotlink classes?

https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/ups-closes-worldport-monday-night-because-of-winter-storm/article_27701530-6fd5-11eb-b8bd-0b3aa0419c80.html

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- UPS is suspending at operations Monday night at its global air hub in Louisville for inclement weather, a first since the hub was established around 2000.

The company released a statement:

At UPS, we are always safety first in meeting our service commitments. That's why, with 6-10" of snow and ice expected in today in Louisville, we are taking the unusual step of suspending Worldport sort operations and cancelling domestic inbound flights on Monday night, Feb. 15.

Sort operations also are cancelled Monday night at the company's regional hub in Dallas due to severe weather conditions in Texas.

UPS is formulating alternate operations plan to resume service as soon as safety allows and to get our customers' critical shipments moving as quickly as possible. Customers with questions about their shipments should track them at UPS.com

Hundreds of planes go in and out of Worldport, at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, each evening. UPS sorts and routes packages to and from planes and trucks at the facility.

UPS spokesman Jim Mayer said some international flights will still land in Louisville as scheduled on Monday evening, but no planes will depart.

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:14:40 PM EDT

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Then why bother posting it?

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:16:56 PM EDT

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Posted: 2/15/2021 10:18:58 PM EDT

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I’m not sure what the OP expected. Maybe he thought this was the UPS industry forum.

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:23:19 PM EDT

[#28]

This sounds bad. But it could be good as well. I have no idea

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:33:02 PM EDT

[#29]

'13er

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:35:03 PM EDT

[#30]

This guy is an engineer. Has to be. Nobody else is this weird.

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:35:04 PM EDT

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C'mon, man. The SDF 4009N sort has been cancelled.

This means that the SDF 4009N will be completely unsorted.

SDF 4009N will be just laying about everywhere with no rhyme or reason.

Utterly disorganized SDF 4009N!

Absolute chaos!

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:44:46 PM EDT

[#32]

so.......no Brown Santa?

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:49:40 PM EDT

[#33]

Hey! TMMK shut down too. Both shifts.

Posted: 2/15/2021 10:54:01 PM EDT

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C'mon, man. The SDF 4009N sort has been cancelled.

This means that the SDF 4009N will be completely unsorted.

SDF 4009N will be just laying about everywhere with no rhyme or reason.

Utterly disorganized SDF 4009N!

Absolute chaos!

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Curious how backed up UPS will be taking the night off.

Posted: 2/15/2021 11:02:34 PM EDT

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This is going to make work tomorrow a disaster.

Posted: 2/15/2021 11:03:59 PM EDT

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C'mon, man. The SDF 4009N sort has been cancelled.

This means that the SDF 4009N will be completely unsorted.

SDF 4009N will be just laying about everywhere with no rhyme or reason.

Utterly disorganized SDF 4009N!

Absolute chaos!

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Posted: 2/15/2021 11:04:18 PM EDT

[#37]

So does this me FedEx "The world on time" is the way to go?

Posted: 2/15/2021 11:07:17 PM EDT

[#38]

Yeah and now the snow apocalypse that we were supposed to have here in the Louisville area, ain't going to happen.

The weathermen swung and missed.

Everybody went full retard, raided the grocery stores and canceled everything

Now don't get me started on UPS ground. On Friday they failed to deliver my powder order. Today they failed me again.

And more than likely they will fail me tomorrow.

Posted: 2/15/2021 11:08:16 PM EDT

[#39]

All those numbers and gibberish are probably the location code for a ups terminal that isn't unloading trailers, sorting packages and then loading onto other trailers due to weather.

Posted: 2/15/2021 11:10:10 PM EDT

[#40]

Some other “stuff” shutting down tomorrow as well.

Don’t think it is public yet, so.....

Posted: 2/15/2021 11:10:17 PM EDT

[#41]

I'm just gonna go ahead and kick off my end of the world orgy just in case.

Posted: 2/15/2021 11:10:24 PM EDT

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It's not about the money, they won't pay out refund on delays due to weather anyway. The problems with a logistics system like UPS has is all the packages have to keep moving to keep the system working. When one hub shuts down it causes backups and a chain reaction. That being said, all of Texas and a lot of other places in South central US will be shut down also so they will all not be sending or receiving packages and just hold them until things clear up.

Posted: 2/15/2021 11:10:45 PM EDT

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4009N
4009 is the SLIC
N=night sort
We didn’t get our plane Thursday at all and not until Friday afternoon mostly critical medical. Our preload and local sorts have already been canceled

ETA ~~I thought it was 4059~~ Never mind

Posted: 2/15/2021 11:11:59 PM EDT

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Deliver my packages to the wrong address, apparently.

Posted: 2/15/2021 11:11:59 PM EDT

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Get constipated.

Posted: 2/15/2021 11:16:59 PM EDT

[#46]

It means your shit you ordered is going to be late.

Posted: 2/15/2021 11:19:27 PM EDT

[#47]

I guess the porch pirates will have to take the day off too.

Posted: 2/15/2021 11:20:58 PM EDT

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Yes. Last week there was so much ice on the decks they couldn’t move cans. The airport ran out of deicer for the airplanes. Not much you can do when the airport shuts down.
Now we are getting a lot of snow things are just going to be delayed all over not just louky