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Next time you order something from UPS and wonder WTF happened?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bagels" data-source="post: 1155601" data-attributes="member: 43436"><p>It's definitely freight - passenger airlines score huge revenues from freight, sometimes it's containerized and sometimes it's not. It's often cheaper to ship stuff internationally through scheduled passenger airlines than it is through UPS, FedEx, DHL, etc. We have one shipper who receives his stuff pre UPS labeled from a Delta Airlines flight arriving from Sao Paulo, makes a long drive to the airport, then just dumps the load directly to UPS. He says he gets significantly cheaper rates than had he got it picked up from near the airport, and the cost of shipping overnight air + UPS Ground is much less than UPS international air. Of course, this is done for only time sensitive merchandise. Otherwise, it's much cheaper to ship via water than air.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bagels, post: 1155601, member: 43436"] It's definitely freight - passenger airlines score huge revenues from freight, sometimes it's containerized and sometimes it's not. It's often cheaper to ship stuff internationally through scheduled passenger airlines than it is through UPS, FedEx, DHL, etc. We have one shipper who receives his stuff pre UPS labeled from a Delta Airlines flight arriving from Sao Paulo, makes a long drive to the airport, then just dumps the load directly to UPS. He says he gets significantly cheaper rates than had he got it picked up from near the airport, and the cost of shipping overnight air + UPS Ground is much less than UPS international air. Of course, this is done for only time sensitive merchandise. Otherwise, it's much cheaper to ship via water than air. [/QUOTE]
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