Catatonic
Nine Lives
In it's infancy it was a win/win in rural areas, where we did indeed circumvent excess miles for individual packages.
Today's reality is that we are now giving them many packages that we are driving right by during the course of the day in urban settings.
I have a bid route within a major big city.
I routinely deliver many basic packages to the Post Office that are in my trace.
Many to addresses I will deliver that same day.
It's the nature of the business.
We all know the regular customers with online, QVC,HSN, catalogue shopping compulsion problems.
Those are packages we are unnecessarily losing.
It was a good idea in extended areas that has been taken one step to far in true UPS fashion.
UPS is not losing them.
UPSers picks them up.
UPSers sorts them in at least two hub/local sorts.
UPSers preloads them
UPSers delivers them to the USPS
If UPS did not offer this service, the USPS or FedEx would get them all.
Your ad hoc observations mean nothing except that there are apparent exceptions within a systemic process ... there is probably no system ever developed that does not have these small insignificant exceptions in them.
Furthermore, there is time associated with the additional stops if the driver had to deliver at the residence ... those minutes are saved.
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