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?
Obviously, Yah cahn't get ta heah from theah, ayup!
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteUPS 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.
ReplyDeleteIt'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.
ReplyDeleteUntil 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...)
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