No.Creepy is the weirdo that lives on the corner. Wait, isn't that your car that's always parked there?
Sure post is sold as a no frills service. It is a competitive response to fedex smartpost and based on the demand from consumers for cheap or free shipping. I have one shipper that uses it and he says customers get what they pay for when there is an issue. He offers ground side by side on his website and people choose the cheap option 90% of the time even when he pushes guaranteed delivery for ground residential. Bottom line is we will lose our brown shorts if costs of delivering residential continue to increase. I'm sure hateful management is always looking for driver input to reduce costs for residential delivery...
. Maybe, if I need 5 stops to be in range, management could find them near the end of my trip or on the way back to the center instead of 7-10 miles across town.Sure post is sold as a no frills service. It is a competitive response to fedex smartpost and based on the demand from consumers for cheap or free shipping. I have one shipper that uses it and he says customers get what they pay for when there is an issue. He offers ground side by side on his website and people choose the cheap option 90% of the time even when he pushes guaranteed delivery for ground residential. Bottom line is we will lose our brown shorts if costs of delivering residential continue to increase. I'm sure hateful management is always looking for driver input to reduce costs for residential delivery...
OK mod wannabeI would like to take credit for reporting that lewdness.
Then you wont dispatch. It's no accident that you are being sent out of the way. It's the only way "they" can come close to meeting the impossible standards in place.The irony is the next day when you receive the pcm about idle time and saving fuel.. Maybe, if I need 5 stops to be in range, management could find them near the end of my trip or on the way back to the center instead of 7-10 miles across town.
Yeah, go to the Post Office locator on their website. Click the location you want, and underneath the 800 number is the local number to the location. Like the Central City post office in Alanta, GA's number is (404) 222-0765.Does anyone have the numbers to all USPS locations across the country handy?
I'm still trying to figure out how this whole thing isn't subcontracting.
New volume???
BTW, I know you where being facicist.
The majority of the packages that I deliver to the Post Office are Lands End, JCP, GNC, QVC, HSN, to name a few.
All companies that shipped through UPS dock to door.
This is nothing more than an attempt to cut routes.
Bubble,
What is your solution to UPS retaining current UPS ground residential business when customers want a less expensive alternative? If UPS does not provide a solution, what should the customer do?
There are many alternatives to UPS ground residential:
FedEx SmartPost, Streamlite, Blue Package Delivery, Newgistics, DHL Global Mail, Fairrington Transportation, Kaleidoscope Services, OSM Worldwide, ParcelPool and SP Express.
How do you propose UPS compete in this market without Supposed as an option?
BTW, JC Penny was won back from Fedex Ground--all new volume due to SurePost. They left UPS ground to Fedex Ground years ago.
Interesting article on trends in the ground residential market.
http://www.parcelindustry.com/ME2/d...91&tier=4&id=A451989C3B014D548E335653F572973C
We should be concentrating on dominating what will be the future, Internet driven business to home delivery.
Instead we are stunting our growth by giving our urban business to the USPS, when we could be strategically building our infrastructure in these densely populated urban areas.
That's not where our future is ... important part of our business but not where growth and profitability is.
Anytime there is one package at a stop, there is little or no profit.
That's not where our future is ... important part of our business but not where growth and profitability is.
Anytime there is one package at a stop, there is little or no profit.
So lets assume that this is correct and that UPS is aiming a different direction that seems more profitable at this time. What if the PO becomes privatized and this volume is then up for grabs? What is the current belief at the corporate level of UPS, do they believe the PO can survive it's current hemorrhaging? Is there any concern that by diverting current accounts into this service, that we are helping to keep the PO on life support after the brain has left the bldg?I, like Bubble, have seen solid accounts moved to Basic from ground at quite a clip and he's correct, the customers think they are paying for and getting a service level thats not provided. I have ordered stuff online "ship ups ground" and it shows up basic.That's not where our future is ... important part of our business but not where growth and profitability is.KiAnytime there is one package at a stop, there is little or no profit.
I"m glad you asked, and for starters I would like to say that I am not so short sighted to see that this a good alternative in some scenarios.
In it's infancy, Smartpost (or Basic as it was known then) was a bold initiative.
It enabled us to fore go some of the residential rural stops that were less or nonprofitable, addresses that the USPS was going to anyway.
The problem as I see it as a driver within a major metropolitan city; is that I am now taking hundreds of packages a month to the post office that I am driving right by, or in many cases, actually delivering to from other consignees that very day.
How in these dense urban settings is it advantageous to our future to divert this business to the USPS?
The only logical answer is, to thwart growth in staffing.
I believe this a mistake made possible by the short sighted, stock market mentality of instant gratification.
We should be concentrating on dominating what will be the future, Internet driven business to home delivery.
Instead we are stunting our growth by giving our urban business to the USPS, when we could be strategically building our infrastructure in these densely populated urban areas.
Once again, let the Post Office have the rural stuff.
Unfortunately UPS has taken a good thing and went way too far with it as usual.