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Could UPS deliver the mail?
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<blockquote data-quote="trplnkl" data-source="post: 664703" data-attributes="member: 13254"><p>All this is hypothetical anyway, so here is my take on the imaginable. If...IF UPS was to take over the delivery of mail, they sure would not merge it with the parcel routes we now have, although they might divert some of our less profitable small package deliveries to the mail division. There would be a total overhaul of mail delivery. You would see independent contractors bidding on delivery routes. The only hourly jobs would be in building pre-sorters and front desk clerks. The final sorts would even be done by the contract delivery people. The USPS already uses contractors on country routes and are trying to do the same for the city rtes where the carrier parks at an intersection to walk off the houses of four blocks. The contractors not only don't get paid by the hour, they have to provide their own benifits. I don't know of any contractors that have mulitiple rotes as fedex ground does, but don't know for fact they don't exist.</p><p></p><p>Klein, in the USA we have some complete towns that have <u>no</u> home deliveries, everone has a box at the PO. There are neighborhoods that have a single box on the corner (like the ones at apartment complexes) that each house on the block has their mail delivered to, many areas have boxes by the curb, many have boxes at the house.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trplnkl, post: 664703, member: 13254"] All this is hypothetical anyway, so here is my take on the imaginable. If...IF UPS was to take over the delivery of mail, they sure would not merge it with the parcel routes we now have, although they might divert some of our less profitable small package deliveries to the mail division. There would be a total overhaul of mail delivery. You would see independent contractors bidding on delivery routes. The only hourly jobs would be in building pre-sorters and front desk clerks. The final sorts would even be done by the contract delivery people. The USPS already uses contractors on country routes and are trying to do the same for the city rtes where the carrier parks at an intersection to walk off the houses of four blocks. The contractors not only don't get paid by the hour, they have to provide their own benifits. I don't know of any contractors that have mulitiple rotes as fedex ground does, but don't know for fact they don't exist. Klein, in the USA we have some complete towns that have [U]no[/U] home deliveries, everone has a box at the PO. There are neighborhoods that have a single box on the corner (like the ones at apartment complexes) that each house on the block has their mail delivered to, many areas have boxes by the curb, many have boxes at the house. [/QUOTE]
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