<VV> Increased delivery time warning

[Sethracer at aol.com]

That may be the case in the more rural areas of the country. Not in our  
urban area (San Francisco Bay Area) I use all three for outgoing shipments and 
 receive material via all three. Both UPS and FedEx (ground) have big 
fleets and  deliver their own packages. There are additional deliveries made by 
others,  OnTrac is one. But in the more rural areas, I can see the cost to 
UPS or FedEx  being overwhelming, so they might, indeed have USPS deliver the 
items. I just  haven't seen it here. - Seth
 
 
In a message dated 3/21/2014 3:28:42 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
jay.pitchford at gmail.com writes:

Grant,

My recent experience with UPS and FedEx is that  they've handed off the
'last mile' of their delivery to residential  addresses back to USPS. That
may explain some of the delays for the USPS,  as they're probably obligated
by contract to prioritize UPS and FedEx  deliveries.

It makes sense for these three to work together on  residential deliveries,
if you think about it, as the USPS has a mandate  and the widest delivery
capabilities for individual residential addresses.  It also makes sense to
create different tiers and prices, based on delivery  time guarantees.

Jay Pitchford
65 Corsa vert
Columbus,  OH


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Grant Young  
<gyoungwolf at earthlink.net>wrote:

> This is just a heads up for  anyone planning to install a part on your
> Corvair that has to be  delivered. I am still waiting on a pan gasket (and
> other parts) that  was ordered Sunday and shipped to me using USPS 
Priority
> Mail 2-day  (their estimate) on Monday. It has not arrived yet (on
> Thursday). I  have found that small parts shipped via "First Class" mail 
can
> now  take 3-7 days or more (one recent catalog took 2 weeks to go 3 states
>  away), regardless of how far they have to go. I still use the USPS  
because
> their flat rate boxes save my customers a lot of money as they  usually 
make
> it in 3-5 days, but will no longer take a chance with  them when something
> has to be there on time. So if you are planning a  day to install 
something
> that has to arrive, you should choose UPS or  FedEx, IMHO. This poor 
service
> has to be a piece of why USPS is losing  big money. No intent to start a
> thread, just a heads up.
>  Grant
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