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I wonder how much money UPS and the USPS would save...
If they just sent packages where they are supposed to go, instead of sending them all over hell and back. I had 2 packages that I'm tracking ( I'm just south of Rochester, NY ). One STARTED in NY, and the last time I checked it was in Urbancrest,Ohio ( UPS mail innovations ), the other ( USPS ) started out just north of Toronto, and last I checked it's in Chicago ?
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02-12-2016, 08:18 PM
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Apparently......
Apparently, it's cheaper to send them hell and back as long as a plane is going that way. I think sometimes it kinda worms around until they decided to put it on a truck to your town.
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02-12-2016, 08:24 PM
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Since USPS uses commercial aviation, it's based on where the hubs are. Just like being a passenger going from Va to the Bahamas , I have to go either to Atlanta or Pittsburg first. 
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02-12-2016, 09:34 PM
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02-13-2016, 02:50 AM
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I sold an FAL rifle receiver to a fellow in Boise, Idaho. Took it to my UPS depot in Salt Lake City, Utah. They told me it had to go by air since it was a firearm (not true, but...). Boise is about 5 hours' drive from Salt Lake.
I follow the UPS tracking. They fly it to Ontario, California, then fly it back to Salt Lake, then truck it to Boise and deliver to the FFL.
I paid $50 so it could have a couple of plane rides to and from home...
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02-13-2016, 09:35 AM
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My best USPS personal experience:
Couple years ago ,on another forum, I sold some scope mounts to a guy in rural Christ's Church, New Zealand. I mailed the small padded envelope and a birthday card for my Mom on the same visit to the Post Office. My Mom lives two counties to the east of me(60 some miles) The package got to the guy in New Zealand a day before the card made it to my Mom. 
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02-14-2016, 10:40 AM
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When I was stationed in Australia, I got a letter from my father in Wisc. in 4 days and that included crossing the international date line!
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I don't know . . . seems to be with all the millions of packages they have to get from point A to point B on a daily basis I think they do a pretty good job of getting the vast majority of them there in one piece and in a reasonable amount of time.
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02-14-2016, 12:00 PM
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A friend of mine works for UPS as a tech. He said that as far as deliveries go the trucks run on an algorithm based on the addresses for delivery. They mainly do right hand turns as that saves on time and gas.
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This "mail innovation" where they ship from a supplier by UPS until it reaches near where you live than it goes to the post office and gets delivered to you by USPS from there. Used to be when I ordered something from Midway before 2 PM one day it would be delivered the next day. Now it may take from 5 to 8 days and travel a few hundred extra miles getting here (and that's cheaper than UPS direct?).
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Originally Posted by F75gunslinger
I wonder how much money UPS and the USPS would save... If they just sent packages where they are supposed to go, instead of sending them all over hell and back.
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The answer is - they wouldn't save *any* money. Every hole-in-the-wall hamlet in the country is both a possible shipping point *and* a possible destination. They would have to have a lot more vehicles, a lot more sorting facilities, and a lot more employees,
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