How Our Mail Gets to Us

Posted by: GOOD
on December 3, 2007 at 5:49 pm

Our mail carriers handle an average of 727 million pieces each day. Behind this incredible volume of correspondence is an army of employees, an enormous fleet of vehicles, and a mountain of money.

This transparency is all about How Our Mail Gets To Us.

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Categories: Business

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DISCUSSION: 2 Comments

- Posted by: nightfall
- on December 16, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Comparative delivery times at most basic level and highest level of service would really augment this transparency.
- Posted by: Decomprose
- on December 23, 2007 at 1:24 pm
DHL looks like the little guy here, but is the most reliable of the bunch: check out http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~jjb/wh/package-race/2007/2007.html

DHL’s success over Fedex and UPS is partly because they’re not so little – DHL Express is owned by DeutschePost World Net, the second largest employer on Earth (after Walmart). That means big investment. DHL is huge outside the US, just not very well known here.

USPS is huge, but they should be after years of having been a government department. They had generations of taxpayer investment and no shareholders to report to, so got all the infrastructure, buildings, vehicles, and government protection they needed without any need to make any of it profitable. We all hear about carrier issues, but USPS has the service down to a science.