[Milsurplus] OT: UPS Ground Insanity

[J. Forster]

I doubt it. I'm in a building that gets UPS stuff just about every day, in
an industrial park with a dozen or more big office buildings.

-John

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> : They are just sitting somewhere in the UPS warehouse for 4 days.
> : Is this total insanity, or what?
>
> Yes and no...  I've seen that here too, it has to do with routing and
> time/fuel/costs savings.  You cables may be the ONLY thing to deliver your
> way, so they will wait to see if they can delivery, two, three, four more
> items on that route, rather than drive out there four seperate times on
> four
> seperate days at four times the cost.
>
> For example, I live about twenty miles from the post office.  Rather than
> drive there once or twice per day, at 13 MPG at $3.24 a gallon for fuel
> and
> expensive foo-foo coffee drinks ($$$$), I go once or twice a week.  If
> someone needs an item NOW, I can expedite the delivery, do it today, but I
> tell them up front that it will cost so many more dolalrs, just in fuel to
> do it, they usually wait a couple days.
>
> Kurt
>
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