[ARC5] OT: UPS Ground Insanity

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Haynes" <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>
To: "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com>
Cc: <ARC5 at mailman.QTH.net>; <ArmyRadios at yahoogroups.com>; 
<Milsurplus at mailman.QTH.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] OT: UPS Ground Insanity


> One of my friends in Eugene OR ordered some connectors 
> from a supplier
> in Seattle.  Using UPS tracking he watched them go from 
> Seattle to
> Portland to San Francisco to Los Angeles to Flagstaff to 
> Albuquerque
> to Salt Lake City...and eventually back to Seattle. 
> Meanwhile the
> supplier had sent him another set that arrived promptly.
>
> Back in the 1960s when General Electric was in the 
> computer business
> they had contracted with some railroad to build a rail car 
> tracking
> system.  There were stories told of the G.E. guys going to 
> the rail
> yard to study the problem.  In the back of some rail yard 
> they found
> a whole carload of new 1950s-ish cars that had never made 
> it to the
> dealers.  And there was another story about a carload of 
> hides that
> had been shipped back and forth between two cities over 
> and over for
> several months.

     Some shippers use a hub system, everything goes to the 
hub where its sorted and re-shipped.  I suppose this makes 
some sense to the MBA who invented it.  Shakespeare said 
"First kill all the lawyers"  I think now it should be 
"First kill all the MBAs".
     Your cynical friend R.K.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com