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Could UPS deliver the mail?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dustyroads" data-source="post: 664759" data-attributes="member: 22610"><p>UPS really has very little interest in delivering to residences. In the parcel delivery business, they lose money every day on residential deliveries, not to mention the very rural extended areas. A few years ago, we instituted surcharges on residential deliveries to try to offset our losses to those addresses. Our newest approach to reducing our residential deliveries has been the expansion of the basic service. Never, ever before have we seen so many packages being delivered by ups to Post Offices. </p><p> </p><p>If Federal laws were changed to allow UPS to handle first class mail, I imagine you would see UPS cherry-picking the mail delivery, going out and getting the profitable accounts. Unlike the Post Office, that has a legal responsibility to go to every mailbox, every day, UPS would have no such constraint. A more accurate comparison, if one were really wanting to analyze the potential for UPS "delivering the mail", would be, would UPS like to go to every mailbox in the nation, every day? That is what the Post Office is obligated to do, and so if we were to compare our ability to do the same for ten cents or fifty cents, we need to be sure that our comparative analysis is accurate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dustyroads, post: 664759, member: 22610"] UPS really has very little interest in delivering to residences. In the parcel delivery business, they lose money every day on residential deliveries, not to mention the very rural extended areas. A few years ago, we instituted surcharges on residential deliveries to try to offset our losses to those addresses. Our newest approach to reducing our residential deliveries has been the expansion of the basic service. Never, ever before have we seen so many packages being delivered by ups to Post Offices. If Federal laws were changed to allow UPS to handle first class mail, I imagine you would see UPS cherry-picking the mail delivery, going out and getting the profitable accounts. Unlike the Post Office, that has a legal responsibility to go to every mailbox, every day, UPS would have no such constraint. A more accurate comparison, if one were really wanting to analyze the potential for UPS "delivering the mail", would be, would UPS like to go to every mailbox in the nation, every day? That is what the Post Office is obligated to do, and so if we were to compare our ability to do the same for ten cents or fifty cents, we need to be sure that our comparative analysis is accurate. [/QUOTE]
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