[Milsurplus] OT: UPS Ground Insanity

[Robert Nickels]

On 11/30/2012 9:53 AM, Albert LaFrance wrote:
> Not a new problem in the shipping business, apparently:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHRGkGFwo7k
Albert - first thing I said was "I'm not going to watch a 20 minute 
video"--then I did exactly that!   A pretty good reminder of no matter 
how much things change the more they stay the same.   I did like the 
backpack radio seen toward the end of the video.

UPS CACH, their largest sorting hub where I spent the most time (which 
shows up on your tracking info as "Hodgkins IL" but is actually so large 
it is located in both Hodgkins and Willow Springs) was built adjacent to 
the BNSF (Santa Fe) intermodal facility in Willow Springs.  They load or 
unload containers at the rate of one per minute - hopefully correctly 
(at least 95% of the time!).

73, Bob W9RAN