[GratefulCitizen]

Observations from a UPS feeder driver (tractor-trailers).

Had a freakishly large surge of pickups early in the week from the pet food factory in Flagstaff.
Usually averages around 450 boxes per day, but was around 1500 on Monday, 1200 on Tuesday, and tapered down to a little over 300 last night.

Fulfilled by Amazon, and they're pretty fast getting that stuff into our system.
The hub in Goodyear wasn't abnormally busy early in the week, but picked up towards the end of the week (not normal) as slower shippers got their stuff in the system.

Seeing more rigs on the road at night than is normal for this time of year, and significantly more grocery store trucks.
The supply chain is catching up to the demand surge.

The craziness should start abating in a week or two when people realize that the stores keep getting restocked.
There aren't any shortages, just limits in the speed of restock.

Got a general message from my manager today.
UPS has been classified as a Critical Infrastructure Industry by DHS, so we're supposed to keep working everywhere.

The nature of what the package drivers do pretty much guarantees some of them will catch it (a former coworker in package has been delivering into a hot zone for the last week).
From the package drivers it will spread to the hub workers, and then eventually to the feeder drivers.

The package drivers tend to be in very good health and under the age of 50 while the hub workers are mostly in their 20s and 30s, so most of them should be fine.
A little worried about my department, as many of the drivers are in their 50s, 60s, and older, with many of those in not the best health.

There's effectively nothing being done by UPS to protect workers from infection.
Realistically, there's not much which can be done.

Hopefully this problem will start coming under control before it sweeps through our system.