Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

How Does This Make Any Sense; UPS Edition

Take a look at this tracking report:


So... UPS took the package from Bensenville, IL, hauled it 500 miles to Kansas City, then shipped it to Forest Park, IL (which is right down the road from Bensenville), only to hand it over to the Postal Service and tell them "y'all take it from here".

How does that make any sense?

5 comments:

montag said...

Obviously, Yah cahn't get ta heah from theah, ayup!

Marc said...

I had an item I bought shipped 'economy'. That sucker flew from Maryland (their distro center/warehouse) to LAX, then took a slow boat to Salt Lake City, and finally came to Phoenix by mule (based on the time it took on package track). If that was the cheap (and slow) route, I wonder what route the extra six bucks express shipping would have been.

Deadstick said...

UPS hubs packages like airlines hub people. Even if a route is almost a round trip, if there's space available on it, it's the cheap way.

BadTux said...

It's all dollars and cents. The marginal cost of adding one more package to the unfilled truck going to the hub is much less than the marginal cost of adding a whole new truck directly carrying the few packages that go from Bensenville to Forest Park. In the singular, it makes no sense. In the aggregate, it's how you make money in the shipping business.

CenterPuke88 said...

Until the new delivery drone...Government regulated, with Government mandated delivery verification camera (which incidentally records all the time and streams the video to FBI/NSA servers)...can fly it over, Tux. (Forgot the optional frequency sniffer...and infrared camera...and...)