postal service, now I understand delays

[85_Ranger4x4]

The USPS, the organization that has had a business model of "we keep losing customers so we must raise the prices".

On the other hand when competitors use you because you do it cheaper than they can do it... you might not be charging enough.

 

[Ranger850]

There used to be NO competition for the USPS. Some time ago FedEx and UPS popped up. Then DRL and smaller courier services popped up. NOW Amazon hires delivery drivers directly. So you had one person eating all the pie, then some guests came over, and ate some pie, then their friends came over for pie, they got what was left in the pan, and poor little ol' USPS is only getting a fraction of the pie.

 

[Dirtman]

If you order a part from point A and need it delivered to point B it is logistically impossible for the shipment to go direct from A to B. I'm not saying the post office isn't an insane mess, but it's not like theres 500,000 million trucks that can deliver every package direct from a store to your house. They have to pass through a maze of local sorting centers to distribution hubs that are hauling a ton of other packages besides yours so the cheapest most efficient route is hardly ever the most direct.

Book a flight across the country... if you fly direct from Newark to LAX it cost a hell of alot more than if you book an insane itinerary with 5 layovers even though you flew 4,000 extra miles and stopped in Chicago twice for some reason.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Book a flight across the country... if you fly direct from Newark to LAX it cost a hell of alot more than if you book an insane itinerary with 5 layovers even though you flew 4,000 extra miles and stopped in Chicago twice for some reason.

But if you have another airline as an option that can do it for the same price with one or two stops with fast layovers and a better chance of not falling out of the airplane over the rockies... you might go that route instead.

 

[Curious Hound]

But if you have another airline as an option that can do it for the same price with one or two stops with fast layovers and a better chance of not falling out of the airplane over the rockies... you might go that route instead.

Happy thought.

If you fall out over the Rockies, you wont fall as far because the ground is closer to the airplane’s altitude.

 

[Dirtman]

Or you could just fly southwest, the safest of all airlines. The planes never take off so no chance of a crash.

 

[Bgunner]

It is not just parts/packages that do the needless miles thing. If I send a letter to Lets say Pittsfield Ma. from North Adams Ma, 12 miles away mind you, It must first go out to Springfield Ma. (61 miles)1.25 Hours away to the hub there just to be sent back to my area to go to its destination in Pittsfield (another 45+ mile trip). How do I know it goes to Springfield? The date/time stamp says where it was stamped and says Springfield Ma. Now to further hammer the nail into the USPS's coffin more than once one of my packages have sat at the hub in Springfield for 4 "Work" days or more before leaving to head my direction. I can get to the post office there in under and hour and half diving at peak rush hour. 4+ days holding on to a package seems a bit of a waste of time and space... But who am I to complain? Only the one that paid to use there service and is constantly wondering why its done the hard way is all.

 

[Snoranger]

It is not just parts/packages that do the needless miles thing. If I send a letter to Lets say Pittsfield Ma. from North Adams Ma, 12 miles away mind you, It must first go out to Springfield Ma. (61 miles)1.25 Hours away to the hub there just to be sent back to my area to go to its destination in Pittsfield (another 45+ mile trip). How do I know it goes to Springfield? The date/time stamp says where it was stamped and says Springfield Ma. Now to further hammer the nail into the USPS's coffin more than once one of my packages have sat at the hub in Springfield for 4 "Work" days or more before leaving to head my direction. I can get to the post office there in under and hour and half diving at peak rush hour. 4+ days holding on to a package seems a bit of a waste of time and space... But who am I to complain? Only the one that paid to use there service and is constantly wondering why its done the hard way is all.

That package sat there for 4 days until they had a full truckload going to that location. It would be a waste of fuel to ship a few packages that distance when they can wait a few days and send a loaded truck.
Yes it wasted your time, but it was cheaper for them in the long run.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

That package sat there for 4 days until they had a full truckload going to that location. It would be a waste of fuel to ship a few packages that distance when they can wait a few days and send a loaded truck.
Yes it wasted your time, but it was cheaper for them in the long run.

Leaving your customer thinking "thank god if finally made it, we are not using them again" is not a great long term business plan either.

 

[Bgunner]

That package sat there for 4 days until they had a full truckload going to that location. It would be a waste of fuel to ship a few packages that distance when they can wait a few days and send a loaded truck.
Yes it wasted your time, but it was cheaper for them in the long run.

This is a possibility but when the deliver by date is what they go by they will sit there till that date has come to ship it out. I understand the fuel savings thing BUT mail comes from Springfield Ma. to our County every day but Sunday, or used to be but Sunday, so it really isn't a fuel savings thing when there is a truck every work day coming to my area.

 

[sgtsandman]

You wanna see the least efficient and least cost effective way to do something? Let the government do it. They’ll make it happen.

 

[pjtoledo]

If you order a part from point A and need it delivered to point B it is logistically impossible for the shipment to go direct from A to B. I'm not saying the post office isn't an insane mess, but it's not like theres 500,000 million trucks that can deliver every package direct from a store to your house. They have to pass through a maze of local sorting centers to distribution hubs that are hauling a ton of other packages besides yours so the cheapest most efficient route is hardly ever the most direct.

Book a flight across the country... if you fly direct from Newark to LAX it cost a hell of alot more than if you book an insane itinerary with 5 layovers even though you flew 4,000 extra miles and stopped in Chicago twice for some reason.

contrast this to ordering stuff from SummitRacing. they also are about 100 miles east of me and I have ordered stuff at 10PM "standard shipping" and received it by 5pm the next day. ( NOT by USPS )

I was involved in ordering, shipping, and tracking stuff for work from the mid 70's until my retirement. most of that time I serviced office/communications/computer equipment on site which put me into hundreds of businesses and other entities. it would be safe to assume I have a good idea of how things work,,,, or maybe work,,, or should work,,, or definitely don't work

 

[pjtoledo]

THE ISSUE IS SOLVED!!!!!!!


just saw it on the local news, it confirms what I suspected all along


according to a statement by Marcy Kaptur, D U.S. rep from northern Ohio:

it's,,,,it's,,, (drum roll please)
































Trumps fault


whodathunk

 

[pjtoledo]

You wanna see the least efficient and least cost effective way to do something? Let the government do it. They’ll make it happen.

what are the most scary words we could possible hear????


"I'm from the government, I'm here to help you"

Hmmm, can't seem to remember who said that

 

[Ranger850]

I work in a mail room in Tallahassee Fl. we have a decent sized USPS hub here, but Jacksonville has the biggest hub in Florida. Often times, local mail gets shipped to Jacksonville to get re-sorted then distributed to the local address. Sometimes it gets sorted out locally and shipped locally. Almost all mail, in Florida, at some point, goes through Jacksonville.