Welcome back, everyone! We have two new student workers on staff: Joseph and Jesse. I’ll introduce all of you when we have shifts together. (Reminder: Please initial in the comments once you’ve read this memo.)
In the meantime, I wanted to mention a few things about shipment (for those of you who have been trained to process shipment).
1.) Make sure to note on the shipment record sheet how many bags you sent to a single location.* For example, if you send two bags to 212, I’d like you to put “2” in parentheses beside the shipment number. For example:
*If you only have one bag going to a location, you don’t need to write anything next to the shipment number.
2.) When recording shipping label numbers on the shipment record sheet, keep in mind that the date written above the numbers is the day bags were packed. The date written to the right of this date should be the date that the shipment was picked up by the delivery driver. The date written on the right is the one you use when entering data into the OhioLINK Manifest Data form.
3.) When recording shipment numbers in the OhioLINK Manifest Data form, please do not record numbers if the shipment hasn’t been picked up yet. For example, if you just packed a shipment for today and it’s past 11am, most likely it won’t be picked up until the next day. Our delivery person doesn’t always pick up the next day so it’s important to accurately record when these shipments go out in the data form. If you realize that you’ve made a mistake with the record, please let me know! I can get this corrected if I know about it. 🙂
4.) Pack all bags in a single layer. If you double up the books so that there are a stack of books in the end of the bubble bag and then another stack in front of that in the same bubble bag, we risk them getting damaged. Not sure what I’m talking about? I’ll be more than happy to show you what I mean.
Thank you all who worked this past week! I’m very impressed with how well all of you are working together.
-Vanessa