While at the Post Office getting the passport renewed I observed a UPS truck pull up and the driver brought in 2 packages to a side door and left empty handed. Whats up with this? Does UPS deliver to P.O. Boxs? I know FedEx won't but will UPS? Is it possible the USPS gets deliveries via UPS?
UPS ships to Post Office ?????
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This practice has been going on for years,i work for Fed-Ex and we handle tons of u.s. postal mail every day..
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At work, I get parts delivered from the manufacturer in Atlanta. They use FedEx. Sometimes the parts are delivered to the FedEx depot in Clive, IA, where they are then delivered to my shop via FedEx truck. Other times they are delivered to the depot in Kansas City, where they take them to the USPS. They are then delivered to me by the Postal Service. All I can say is ??????
inkjunkie
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retired from the post office. the po does have a contract with fed ex, part of the terms, at least a few years back was it allowed fed ex to have a pick up box at the po. the facility i worked at 70% of the incoming/outgoing mail was flown by fed-ex. ground transportation, at least outside of the Phoenix area itself was handled by private contractors. on the west coast Mattheson does alot of the ground transportation. in the facility i worked at ups was there daily delivering stuff, some companies do not use the post office for shipping. i used to go out and collect the mail once a day, you would be surprised at how many people would drop ups/fed/ex/dhl stuff in the mail box. we even would find library books in the collection box. but the po has a monolopy on your mail box, it is for them and them alone. there is alot more to the po than people realize. most people seem to think it is a window clerk and a carrier. i was a mailhandler, my main job was canceling stamps. but my craft was responsible for moving the mail thru out the building and rough cutting of mail. no final sorting, but a rough sort. only bigger facilites have mailhandlers. rather extensive maint. craft.
gunbunny
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I also work at the Post Office. you have no idea how many people send a package via UPS and they (UPS) drops the package off for us to deliver?
UPS pays the P/O to deliver the package. It makes good sense to UPS, they charge you $10 to ship a package that the P/O would have charged $7 to ship. We're coming to your house anyway.
Out of the 30 or so packages I deliver during a day, I'd say 5 or 6 are UPS referrals.
By the way, when you saw the UPS driver leave the packages, they weren't delivered until the next day. We don't come back to pick up the UPS stuff.
When the mail comes in in the morning, we take everything out. With the exception of some bulk mail (catalogs that are not delivery dated) we curtail nothing. Especially 1st and 2nd class and packages.
and inkjunkie is right, the P/O is a huge operation. there is a lot more going on than you would think.
UPS pays the P/O to deliver the package. It makes good sense to UPS, they charge you $10 to ship a package that the P/O would have charged $7 to ship. We're coming to your house anyway.
Out of the 30 or so packages I deliver during a day, I'd say 5 or 6 are UPS referrals.
By the way, when you saw the UPS driver leave the packages, they weren't delivered until the next day. We don't come back to pick up the UPS stuff.
When the mail comes in in the morning, we take everything out. With the exception of some bulk mail (catalogs that are not delivery dated) we curtail nothing. Especially 1st and 2nd class and packages.
and inkjunkie is right, the P/O is a huge operation. there is a lot more going on than you would think.
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I live in Canada, close to the US border. In the past I have used a post office box in ND. for recieving parcels. UPS does not deliver to post office boxes but per se. They require a physical address. Instead of "P.O.Box ###" & postal station,give them the full physical address of the postal station starting with: "Unit ###" It will get delivered!
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Fed-Ex has a $6 billion dollar contract with the u.s. post office..we probably move more mail then them:-D:-D
inkjunkie
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from what i remember fed ex handles just about anything that the post office has to fly. if the post office did not have that contract with fed ex and had to rely on commercial airlines like before the contract the price of a stamp would no doubt be a lot higher.
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Still not a bad deal..only 44 cents to mail a letter...
I'm also a Postal employee - part time rural carrier - and like gunbunny pointed out, UPS (and local contract carriers) drops packages off every day at our facility. The clerks sort them by routes after we leave so they are then delivered the next day.
As stroked 340 mentioned, the price of sending a first class piece of mail within the states is pretty cheap compared to the rest of the world. Even sending international mail. we are less expensive. It costs my son living in Holland almost 1 Euro (actually .94 Euro) to mail a letter to me. That works out to $1.30 compared to the 90 cents it costs me to send him a letter. Of course email and IM is faster and free :-D
As stroked 340 mentioned, the price of sending a first class piece of mail within the states is pretty cheap compared to the rest of the world. Even sending international mail. we are less expensive. It costs my son living in Holland almost 1 Euro (actually .94 Euro) to mail a letter to me. That works out to $1.30 compared to the 90 cents it costs me to send him a letter. Of course email and IM is faster and free :-D
gunbunny
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I seriously doubt that. The Fed Ex guy that covers the area I deliver in has stated many a time he didn't think he could handle the volume that I have.
I forgot that as last fall, we're supposed to pick up any UPS packages that we see at doors or mail boxes. I've only done it a few times though.
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deman360
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I just want to chime in on this thread to tell my fellow postal workers thanks for clearing up some of the mystery about the USPS. I'm a lead auto technician in a small aux VMF, and don't have much contact with the mail, I know that the other shippers use us for some of their deliveries i know we are usually cheaper to ship. Our problem is that a few employees make all of us look bad, I see it everyday from maintenance empoyees to mailhandlers to window clerks and supervisors. We have to go out of our way to win new customers and do our best to keep them.
inkjunkie
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What you are saying may be true as far as deliveries. But what happens before that? I take it you have no idea how the mail really flows to the delivery unit, nor have you ever worked at a Processing Center. Might want to read this http://www.usps.com/communications/news/press/2006/pr06_048.htm. Basicly what it comes down to is Fed Ex moves any and all USPS mail that needs to flown, which if I remember right is about 80% of the USPS mail volume. Years ago the Post Office had facilities nationwide at Major airports. The mail was loaded on commercial aircraft for transport across country. But, and I may be wrong, all of them have been closed. In Phoenix all mail that was not to be transported by ground, which was basicly anything beyond 500 miles or so went to the West Valley Facility. There is was loaded into Fed Ex containers for Fed Ex to fly it. It used to be that Fed Ex only moved time sensitive mail for the Post Office. Bulk rate/parcel post were ground transported by the Post Office and its Highway Contract route transportation network. But now Fed Ex moves it all.
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