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<blockquote data-quote="air_dr" data-source="post: 864469" data-attributes="member: 29929"><p>How about instead of limiting ourselves to will call at the hub, which may be some distance away, the "ground saver" option would deliver the package to the nearest UPS store location, which, for many people just a few minutes away...</p><p>This is besides the good points you are making, but, just to correct the facts, Berkshire Hathaway, Buffet's company, does not pay dividends to shareholders. "Profits" may be a better word choice.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I am curious, anyone have any statistics on the growth of internet commerce, both past as well as what is expected. Should we really be expecting customers who get 2 or 3 packages a week to be receiving 3 or 4 a day in the not to distant future? I simply don't know and so I am asking...</p><p></p><p>I respect Bubbles mindset of future growth rather than managed decline. Radical idea: Would it even be remotely possible for UPS to undertake delivery of mail, especially in more densely populated areas. That would certainly bring volume to us rather than give ours away.</p><p></p><p>Finally, I have heard nothing about surepost at work, though as an afternoon air driver, I am SO out of the loop on things. It is on BC that I first heard about telematics, long before I heard anything mentioned at work, any only llike 4 months ago, telematics went live for us. Anyway, I am in the Midwest, and the hub serves a territory that has no rural parts. No one seems to be saying anything about Surepost. Is this something that is being introduced gradually, one area at a time?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="air_dr, post: 864469, member: 29929"] How about instead of limiting ourselves to will call at the hub, which may be some distance away, the "ground saver" option would deliver the package to the nearest UPS store location, which, for many people just a few minutes away... This is besides the good points you are making, but, just to correct the facts, Berkshire Hathaway, Buffet's company, does not pay dividends to shareholders. "Profits" may be a better word choice. Anyway, I am curious, anyone have any statistics on the growth of internet commerce, both past as well as what is expected. Should we really be expecting customers who get 2 or 3 packages a week to be receiving 3 or 4 a day in the not to distant future? I simply don't know and so I am asking... I respect Bubbles mindset of future growth rather than managed decline. Radical idea: Would it even be remotely possible for UPS to undertake delivery of mail, especially in more densely populated areas. That would certainly bring volume to us rather than give ours away. Finally, I have heard nothing about surepost at work, though as an afternoon air driver, I am SO out of the loop on things. It is on BC that I first heard about telematics, long before I heard anything mentioned at work, any only llike 4 months ago, telematics went live for us. Anyway, I am in the Midwest, and the hub serves a territory that has no rural parts. No one seems to be saying anything about Surepost. Is this something that is being introduced gradually, one area at a time? [/QUOTE]
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