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The USPO and rural routes...one way to save ourselves $$
Ourselves being the US Government and the the tax payers.
I live in what one might consider a rural part of the county and we still get FedEx and UPS delivered by the respective companies. Sometimes these companies show up in an Enterprise rental van...don't know what that's about, but I can't imagine how these rural deliveries are really that profitable for the carriers. Not only residential deliveries, but commercial deliveries (up to a certain size and weight) would apply here. Our company operates in some far out places where UPS and FedEx comes out to deliver the one or two packages a day or week.
Effective? Not really, but what if the USPO contracted with FedEx and UPS to deliver these smaller packages on their normal routes for a cut of the fee? It would be a savings to the carriers and and profit to the USPO!
Instead of driving way out to deliver one or two packages that cost more in fuel, FedEx or UPS can simply drop off the stuff to a USPO and the federal route drivers would take it from there. Perhaps it'll add a day to the delivery time, but the savings could be passed onto the customer. And if the package must be there in short time...the USPO can manage that too!
Just thinking/typing out load as I'm waiting for a UPS package to be delivered.
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