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<blockquote data-quote="Bagels" data-source="post: 1085251" data-attributes="member: 43436"><p>The OP is referring to UPS Mail Innovations, you're referring to UPS SurePost -- two completely different operations. </p><p></p><p>And your assumptions of SurePost are inaccurate. The USPS has long offered deeply discounted rates to consolidators as part of its Parcel Select program; UPS is taking advantage of these rates. Airborne was the first mainstream delivery company to do so (late 1990s), UPS quickly followed suit -- but only for rural delivery -- and when FedEx acquired & expanded SmartPost, UPS expanded what's now SurePost to include nearly all residential addresses. Some sources speculate that SurePost is a money-losing program for the USPS, since the little revenue earned isn't enough to offset the costs of increased handling (but status quo, updating the Parcel Select program to exclude UPS, FedEx, etc. would be challenging).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bagels, post: 1085251, member: 43436"] The OP is referring to UPS Mail Innovations, you're referring to UPS SurePost -- two completely different operations. And your assumptions of SurePost are inaccurate. The USPS has long offered deeply discounted rates to consolidators as part of its Parcel Select program; UPS is taking advantage of these rates. Airborne was the first mainstream delivery company to do so (late 1990s), UPS quickly followed suit -- but only for rural delivery -- and when FedEx acquired & expanded SmartPost, UPS expanded what's now SurePost to include nearly all residential addresses. Some sources speculate that SurePost is a money-losing program for the USPS, since the little revenue earned isn't enough to offset the costs of increased handling (but status quo, updating the Parcel Select program to exclude UPS, FedEx, etc. would be challenging). [/QUOTE]
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