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<blockquote data-quote="ok2bclever" data-source="post: 55952"><p>I disagree with your in transit suppositions as <em>in general</em> the mail is not quicker than us for most transits unless you are timing yourself for weekends where they have another workday for ground (Saturday).</p><p></p><p>Also from the base price you are not comparing apples to apples.</p><p></p><p>If you add the auto $100 insurance, tracking and time transit guarantees to the mail equivalent it will actually cost more than our service.</p><p></p><p>As far as it costing you more if you put a legitimately bad address on the package, gee, I don't know what to tell you outside of "get it right", because that sounds like the prevailing attitude about shirking responsibility and you should not be held accountable for anything you do which I don't accept in my kids let alone in an adult.</p><p></p><p>Again, I reiterate I am talking about legitimate bad address situations, dispute what you consider false or erroneous charges.</p><p></p><p>That there is an extra charge for things that cost UPS extra like your mistakes, deliveries to residences way out there and skyrocketing fuel costs is "just business" and the real question is how come the US Mail doesn't do this.</p><p></p><p>Simple, their package delivery segment isn't a "real business", it's a government created deficit machine artificially supported by a monopoly.</p><p></p><p>You actually answered your own question regarding how the mail can undercut us and I am surprised you don't know the answer or the truth.</p><p></p><p>The US Mail has a federal monopoly on first class mail and the stamps that run that business.</p><p></p><p>They use that to subsidize their package shipping business where they are in direct competition with free enterprise and use that subsidizing to be able to artificially under cut their competition (us and others).</p><p></p><p>In other words, they lose money on their under priced package shipping service and make it up by nailing you on the stamp charge where no one can compete with them and you have no choices but to pay whatever they decide they want to charge for the stamps.</p><p></p><p>We have tried litigation regarding unfair business practices regarding this use of their unfair federally sponsored monopoly rights to subsidize competing with us with artificially lowered package shipping rates since I have been with UPS (32 years) without success.</p><p></p><p>It's that "can't fight city hall" thing.</p><p></p><p>So while I can understand using their cheaper service you bring the next stamp raise closer with every use of their package delivery service. </p><p></p><p>(Message edited by ok2bclever on September 15, 2005)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ok2bclever, post: 55952"] I disagree with your in transit suppositions as [I]in general[/I] the mail is not quicker than us for most transits unless you are timing yourself for weekends where they have another workday for ground (Saturday). Also from the base price you are not comparing apples to apples. If you add the auto $100 insurance, tracking and time transit guarantees to the mail equivalent it will actually cost more than our service. As far as it costing you more if you put a legitimately bad address on the package, gee, I don't know what to tell you outside of "get it right", because that sounds like the prevailing attitude about shirking responsibility and you should not be held accountable for anything you do which I don't accept in my kids let alone in an adult. Again, I reiterate I am talking about legitimate bad address situations, dispute what you consider false or erroneous charges. That there is an extra charge for things that cost UPS extra like your mistakes, deliveries to residences way out there and skyrocketing fuel costs is "just business" and the real question is how come the US Mail doesn't do this. Simple, their package delivery segment isn't a "real business", it's a government created deficit machine artificially supported by a monopoly. You actually answered your own question regarding how the mail can undercut us and I am surprised you don't know the answer or the truth. The US Mail has a federal monopoly on first class mail and the stamps that run that business. They use that to subsidize their package shipping business where they are in direct competition with free enterprise and use that subsidizing to be able to artificially under cut their competition (us and others). In other words, they lose money on their under priced package shipping service and make it up by nailing you on the stamp charge where no one can compete with them and you have no choices but to pay whatever they decide they want to charge for the stamps. We have tried litigation regarding unfair business practices regarding this use of their unfair federally sponsored monopoly rights to subsidize competing with us with artificially lowered package shipping rates since I have been with UPS (32 years) without success. It's that "can't fight city hall" thing. So while I can understand using their cheaper service you bring the next stamp raise closer with every use of their package delivery service. (Message edited by ok2bclever on September 15, 2005) [/QUOTE]
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