The US Post Office......latest 10 billion dollar failure

[phragle]

fed ex was started by a ups worker who basically cloned ups, then began improving upon it. buisness works better when you can start by learning from someone elses mistakes...

of course when you combine fed-ex and ups, you end up with "fed-up"

 

[JupiterSunsation]

fed ex was started by a ups worker who basically cloned ups, then began improving upon it. buisness works better when you can start by learning from someone elses mistakes...

of course when you combine fed-ex and ups, you end up with "fed-up"

Not....................Fedex was started by a Yale grad and classmate of G.W. Bush, a guy by the name of Fred W. Smith. He wrote a paper on it and got a C. The concept worked like a bank clearing house (hub concept) and after a career in the military showed him excess waste he was determined to make it a real tight organization. Fedex currently handles ground shipping for the USPS as part of a 9mm contract.

 

[phragle]

Not....................Fedex was started by a Yale grad and classmate of G.W. Bush, a guy by the name of Fred W. Smith. He wrote a paper on it and got a C. The concept worked like a bank clearing house (hub concept) and after a career in the military showed him excess waste he was determined to make it a real tight organization. Fedex currently handles ground shipping for the USPS as part of a 9mm contract.

Damn..that teAches me not to trust a word the ups rep tells me :willy_nilly:

 

[JupiterSunsation]

Damn..that teAches me not to trust a word the ups rep tells me :willy_nilly:

That is ok, I remembered the story as a University of Chicago student that had his paper delivered late and was aggravated so he started Fedex....Thought a teacher outlined that story to my class in college but after a little research it became a clearer story. :sifone:

 

[cuda]

USPS is still the most cost effective means of getting anything less than 70 pounds from here to there. I mail off quite a few things. The postal rate for packages has gone up.

 

[Ratickle]

Same thing here. When I mail something to Deland, it's gotta go to Jax first. It's the idea of using a hub, which is really the best way to handle it. Fed Ex made it work. Every single item that goes through Fed Ex, has to go through Tennesee first.

Sorry Cuda, wrong there. Only FedEx Air packages go through the hub. All Fed Ex ground packages go only through the transfer areas where it is required to go from point A to point B.

It is another anomaly of the government trying to copy someones "better" idea but not doing it with any common sense. (which, by the way, is at least endangered in Government. If not already extinct.).

All they would have to do to save money on items like that is automatically sort Key West Zip Codes in house and redistribute them there without leaving the local Post Office. But, the hub works for Fed Ex Air, so they won't bother to improve.

 

[Ratickle]

If you want to fix the Post Office, get a businessman to run it. No more Saturday deliveries unless you use a special, more expensive, stamp. No more dropping the mail into every house slot on the street, one central mail location per block. If you're too fat and lazy to get to it, pay your neighbor. etc.....

 

[insanity]

I hate the post office. I do everything I can to avoid it. I've lived in four different places in as many years and every single person I've ever had to deal with at the Post Office was rude and couldn't have moved any slower if they tried.

 

[JupiterSunsation]

PO boxes work really well. Mine is $72 a year, 24/7 access and it is there before 11am each day. My neighborhood mail lady is slow (after 3 every day), won't deliver if boat/car blocks any part of the 15 ft radius around the mailbox and doesn't even bring packages to the door/ she will balance them on top of the mailbox.

I knew a guy that was a postman for 10 years.....he said job sucked and you came home to drink all night to put the pain away. Boring, mindless non-sense and no matter how good of a job you did today it is to be repeated the same way all over again tommorow!

 

[cuda]

Sorry Cuda, wrong there. Only FedEx Air packages go through the hub. All Fed Ex ground packages go only through the transfer areas where it is required to go from point A to point B.

It is another anomaly of the government trying to copy someones "better" idea but not doing it with any common sense. (which, by the way, is at least endangered in Government. If not already extinct.).

All they would have to do to save money on items like that is automatically sort Key West Zip Codes in house and redistribute them there without leaving the local Post Office. But, the hub works for Fed Ex Air, so they won't bother to improve.

I was probably thinking of air only. I knew a guy that flew for Fed Ex after he retired from the Navy. He flew fighter jets off a carrier. They say that according to telemtry, people's heart rate goes higher when landing on a carrier at night, than taking off in the space shuttle. I saw him once on the Discovery Channel. His call sign was Beetle. I wonder what he does for excitement now days.

 

[cuda]

I hate the post office. I do everything I can to avoid it. I've lived in four different places in as many years and every single person I've ever had to deal with at the Post Office was rude and couldn't have moved any slower if they tried.

That's because they have a union to protect their jobs. They have no incentive to give better service.

 

[cigdaze]

I live in Key West.... if I mail a letter to my friend across the street it goes to Miami then back to KW

That's funny as sht! There's a model of efficiency for you. Our fine government at work.

 

[cuda]

PO boxes work really well. Mine is $72 a year, 24/7 access and it is there before 11am each day. My neighborhood mail lady is slow (after 3 every day), won't deliver if boat/car blocks any part of the 15 ft radius around the mailbox and doesn't even bring packages to the door/ she will balance them on top of the mailbox.

I knew a guy that was a postman for 10 years.....he said job sucked and you came home to drink all night to put the pain away. Boring, mindless non-sense and no matter how good of a job you did today it is to be repeated the same way all over again tommorow!

Postal delivery is the best job he can hope for. My sister worked for the PO years ago, running a LSM (letter sorting machine). You want to talk about mind numbing. How would you like to do nothing but punch in zipcodes for eight hours a night.

 

[cuda]

As a quick note, I got a delivery today. It was sent out as Priority Mail, and was delivered by UPS! I swear!