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<blockquote data-quote="Bubblehead" data-source="post: 859000" data-attributes="member: 14176"><p>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.</p><p>In it's infancy, Smartpost (or Basic as it was known then) was a bold initiative. </p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>How in these dense urban settings is it advantageous to our future to divert this business to the USPS?</p><p>The only logical answer is, to thwart growth in staffing.</p><p>I believe this a mistake made possible by the short sighted, stock market mentality of instant gratification.</p><p>We should be concentrating on dominating what will be the future, Internet driven business to home delivery.</p><p>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.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Once again, let the Post Office have the rural stuff.</p><p>Unfortunately UPS has taken a good thing and went way too far with it as usual.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bubblehead, post: 859000, member: 14176"] 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. [/QUOTE]
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