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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
I am curious to see what the person who paid to fly a wedding cake onto a glacier in Alaska paid, as I think perhaps you are confusing letter rates with package rates.
UPS and FedEx don't WANT the USPS business, that's what people can't seem to wrap their heads around:
http://www.minyanville.com/business-.../2012/id/42951 |
UPS and FedEx actively pursue 3 parties (including USPS) now to carry parcels the "last mile" in areas where they do not have a local collective bargaining agreement with the Teamsters to protect that work.
Very similar to the old telephone company days, an overwhelming capital expenditure was to maintain and service the infrastructure from the neighborhood Central Office to the individual home.
The differences in the cost to fly a cargo plane to a depot vs. the cost of running a local delivery fleet are exponential.
In Florida, which is Right to Work, All of my parcels from Amazon are "Delivered" by a company called LaserShip. they are a contracted 3rd party that do nothing more than pickup deliveries from the FedEx/UPS/DHL depots and bring them to the house. There are virtually no UPS trucks anymore.
FedEx will even show, on their package tracking, that packages are statused "Delivered" when they arrive at the post office for dispatch to the home.