UPS Mail Innovations vs Surepost

[laffter]

Technical details aside, what is the difference between the two services? Doesn't UPS handle the pickup and transportation side of things for both? ...then USPS handles delivery?

I ordered something recently and paid around $2.50 for shipping by UPS Mail Innovations. It arrived several days earlier than projected.

 

[upschuck]

MI are packages in those Yellow bags, and believe gets picked up by someone else to deliver to PO. Ours gets picked up around 6:30pm.

 

[Catatonic]

UPS here is the old Brown UPS and none of it's subsidiaries.
Surepost
UPS Pickup
UPS Local Sort
UPS Hub
UPS Hub
UPS Preload
UPS Driver delivers to Post Office
Post Office delivers to Consignee
UPS Bills Shipper

Mail Innovations (Typical)
UPS Bills Shipper

UPS MI can be picked up and processed as Surepost is processed is but that is a small percentage.

 

[upschuck]

UPS here is the old Brown UPS and none of it's subsidiaries.

What?

Surepost
UPS Pickup
UPS Local Sort
UPS Hub
UPS Hub
UPS Preload
UPS Driver delivers to Post Office
Post Office delivers to Consignee
UPS Bills Shipper

Shouldn't we bill shipper when we del to PO? Nothing is guaranteed.

 

[Catatonic]

What?


Shouldn't we bill shipper when we del to PO? Nothing is guaranteed.

UPS Union

UPS bills on Saturday night/Sunday morning for packages whose PLD was received for pickup the previous Sunday - Saturday.

 

[upschuck]

UPS Union

UPS bills on Saturday night/Sunday morning for packages whose PLD was received for pickup the previous Sunday - Saturday.

Thanks

 

[worldwide]

Technical details aside, what is the difference between the two services? Doesn't UPS handle the pickup and transportation side of things for both? ...then USPS handles delivery?

I ordered something recently and paid around $2.50 for shipping by UPS Mail Innovations. It arrived several days earlier than projected.

Mail Innovations. Could be picked up by small package driver in yellow bag. Larger shipments picked up by UPS MI. Sorted by UPS MI and delivered by USPS. Under 1-lb shipments.
http://www.upsmailinnovations.com/services/qualified.html

SurePost. For 1 -lb and over. picked up, sorted and delivered (to USPS or consignee) within the small package network.
http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/resources/track/sp_definition.html