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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 456853" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>I feel compelled to point out that the mail in my area is delivered by a carrier in an all-wheel drive Subaru who never has to get out of his car and never has to go up a driveway. All he has to do is to lean out his window and be able to reach the lid to the mailbox in order to insert an envelope or other small package. In other neighborhoods, the mail carrier delivers the envelopes to a centrally located "kiosk" type mailbox structure that the customers all have to walk to in order to retrieve their mail. If that mail cannot be delivered for whatever reason, the backlog of envelopes will fit into a few dozen totes rather than quickly overwhelming the facility with a million cubic feet of undelivered freight. Logistically speaking, there simply is no comparison between the work done by the Post Office and that of UPS.</p><p> </p><p>As far as FedEx goes, there are areas that I delivered to that recieved no FedEx service and vice versa. This is probably more due to luck than anything else. They faced the same issues we did and got hit with the same backlog of packages that we did. All it takes to prevent a particular neighborhood from receiving service on any given day is something as simple as a broken tire chain, an accident that blocks the road, a downed power line, or any countless other number of issues that are totally beyond UPS's or FedEx'es control.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 456853, member: 14668"] I feel compelled to point out that the mail in my area is delivered by a carrier in an all-wheel drive Subaru who never has to get out of his car and never has to go up a driveway. All he has to do is to lean out his window and be able to reach the lid to the mailbox in order to insert an envelope or other small package. In other neighborhoods, the mail carrier delivers the envelopes to a centrally located "kiosk" type mailbox structure that the customers all have to walk to in order to retrieve their mail. If that mail cannot be delivered for whatever reason, the backlog of envelopes will fit into a few dozen totes rather than quickly overwhelming the facility with a million cubic feet of undelivered freight. Logistically speaking, there simply is no comparison between the work done by the Post Office and that of UPS. As far as FedEx goes, there are areas that I delivered to that recieved no FedEx service and vice versa. This is probably more due to luck than anything else. They faced the same issues we did and got hit with the same backlog of packages that we did. All it takes to prevent a particular neighborhood from receiving service on any given day is something as simple as a broken tire chain, an accident that blocks the road, a downed power line, or any countless other number of issues that are totally beyond UPS's or FedEx'es control. [/QUOTE]
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