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Originally Posted by oncewasgood
From the UPS forum under the “IPA UPDATE”
”Beginning in Bid Period 5 (July), UPS intends to cease the DFW NDA sort, the PHL 2nd Day Air sort, as well as some reductions to contractual postal flying.”
Seems they are reducing postal flying. Not sure but assuming our postal loads are down as well.
A couple things to remember about the USPS....it's a constitutional service. It ain't EVER going away, even though it's not the cabinet level department it once was. Not even Amtrak has that kind of mojo.
That doesn't stop the various political players from making it look better or worse than it really is. That includes hijinks with accounting and statistics. No different than the hyperventilating people do over Amtrak.
Amtrak is generally unprofitable over its long haul routes. For 90% of the population, spending 4 days to get from east to west is nothing but a big waste of time. Where Amtrak kills it is on short haul routes where it has an advantage over any other kind of transportation. That said, any attempt to truncate the long haul service is met with a ridiculous level of opposition, regardless of the level of air and or other transportation service.
You try to shut down the Post Office in Nowhere, Nebraska, population 101, and you will get an unbelievable amount of pushback. To be fair, the law requires that the USPS provide same level of service to everyone, everywhere at the same price.
I used to think visiting any USPO was an exercise in frustration, then I tried to mail something from the local UPS depot, and was met with a similar level of, ahem, service.