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Pardon? How Long Have We Been Partners With USPS?
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<blockquote data-quote="beentheredonethat" data-source="post: 566322" data-attributes="member: 4886"><p>Mail Innovations is a totally seperate service then UPS Basic. Mail Innovations is for less then 1 lb pkgs. It works by picking up in bulk these very small pkgs and then it brings it to a sorting facility at night. That sort facility gets the work sorted down to the "local hub" for the USPS and then flies it to that location. This speeds up the delivery time for the pkg and we get the bulk mailing rate for dropping in a local hub (USPS lingo BMC Bulk Mailing Center). Customer gets faster delivery and usually a cheaper rate, we get the difference in our nearby bulk rate vs their non bulk rate. </p><p></p><p>Basic is for 1lb -5 lb and sometimes 1lb -10lb pkgs. UPS delivers roughly 80% of the pkgs to the final mile. The other 20% UPS delivers to the local DDU\Post Office and the mail man delivers the final mile. We were able to win over a very large account such as LL Bean due to offering Basic. If we didn't offer that service our price would have been too much and they would have stayed with FDX. We lost them about 18 years ago due to rates when we split commercial vs residential rates.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="beentheredonethat, post: 566322, member: 4886"] Mail Innovations is a totally seperate service then UPS Basic. Mail Innovations is for less then 1 lb pkgs. It works by picking up in bulk these very small pkgs and then it brings it to a sorting facility at night. That sort facility gets the work sorted down to the "local hub" for the USPS and then flies it to that location. This speeds up the delivery time for the pkg and we get the bulk mailing rate for dropping in a local hub (USPS lingo BMC Bulk Mailing Center). Customer gets faster delivery and usually a cheaper rate, we get the difference in our nearby bulk rate vs their non bulk rate. Basic is for 1lb -5 lb and sometimes 1lb -10lb pkgs. UPS delivers roughly 80% of the pkgs to the final mile. The other 20% UPS delivers to the local DDU\Post Office and the mail man delivers the final mile. We were able to win over a very large account such as LL Bean due to offering Basic. If we didn't offer that service our price would have been too much and they would have stayed with FDX. We lost them about 18 years ago due to rates when we split commercial vs residential rates. [/QUOTE]
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