I'm only trying to help man. It's really damned hard on the eyes to try and decipher your posts.
IF you would turn
Those long chains of sentences into say
A paragraph with structure, you might get a few more people
Bothering to read what you have to say.
There IS an ignore feature on these forums...
Crap I tried it your way, but I don't do bullet points.
If you would turn those long chains of sentences into say a paragraph with structure, you might get a few more people bothering to read what you have to say, there IS an ignore feature on these forums... Crap I tried it your way, but I don't do bullet points.
Which is more readable?
the top is far more readable than the bottom
despite your unnatural breaks
a line should be a complete thought
very reader friendly format
thanks, friend, no big, either way
i take your advice in the spirit offered, from a friend
KICK OBAMA's BUTT, baby!
cliff
Do other countries have private letter mail delivery companies operating on a bulk model??
Do other countries have private letter mail delivery companies operating on a bulk model??
Let's please not buy into this false comparison of UPS, Fedex and the USPS.
It is a non uniform comparison, as the private carriers aren't allowed to deliver daily regular mail.
UPS and FedEx deliver packages heavier than the postal office is willing to, they also deliver world wide which the post office doesn't do.
Don't forget though that the post office outsources a ton of it's bulk mail to shipping companies and if your using the post office for over night or express delivery your really using FedEx.
Funny enough the U.S. had a few private bulk mail delivery services until the government decided they could force a monopoly.
Let's please not buy into this false comparison of UPS, Fedex and the USPS.
It is a non uniform comparison, as the private carriers aren't allowed to deliver daily regular mail.
UPS and FedEx deliver packages heavier than the postal office is willing to, they also deliver world wide which the post office doesn't do.
Don't forget though that the post office outsources a ton of it's bulk mail to shipping companies and if your using the post office for over night or express delivery your really using FedEx.
Funny enough the U.S. had a few private bulk mail delivery services until the government decided they could force a monopoly.
And if FedEx and UPS didn't have to compete against the postal service's prices, would shipping be as cheap as it is today?
I hate to tell you this Harry but most of the mail from bulk mail facilities is delivered by private carriers, as are most RR delivers made up of private carriers.
Next time your on the road (interstates) and see a mail trailer, check out the tractor pulling it, odds are it will have a private label on the door.
When in the sticks check out the cars/suvs stuffing the mail into the RR boxes on the skinny roads in the less populated parts of our country. You will more than likely see a magnetic stick on sign on the door saying United States Mail, along with a wal-mart bought flashing yellow sign on the rear of the suv.
interesting. who?
Do other countries have private letter mail delivery companies operating on a bulk model??
Funny enough the U.S. had a few private bulk mail delivery services until the government decided they could force a monopoly.
The U.S. postal service could solve all its problems by redlining obscure regions; just stop delivering mail to any area which isn't profitable.
That doesn't answer my question. Furthermore, that issue has already been dissected. Is there any modern version operating in countries today that is profitable on a bulk model?
I've already shown that it can exist but here you go.
Not quite.
Merely existing does not equate to actually working well or being profitable.
What is CityMail's cost and profit for high volume, slow, low weight mailings? Looking at their site, they seem to be far more interested in the express and large packages, essentially what DHL, UPS and FedEx do.
The only real way to determine if they are actually a serious competition in high volume, slow, low weight mailings is to look at their volume by product as well as profit by product. Looking at their product listings, they seem to be much like UPS, handling shipping to communication to even warehousing and inventory control. That ain't the same thing as a bulk model high volume, slow, low weight mailings mail company.
Your not going to find a lot of examples of these because 1. the government restricts these types of operations and 2. the government subsidies national postal services to the point were the price of postage is not an accurate reflection of the true cost.
This whole thing is kind of funny because Obama has inadvertently shown that government doesn't have to play by the same rules as private businesses do, thus causing them(private businesses) to fail by cheating them.
If only we could get Congress to do that. :roll:Now if we could get them to stop delivering bills.
I'm not so sure about either of those. While you are correct that many places have monopolies, I find it hard to believe that every country in the world has such laws on its books and enforces it. Furthermore, the USPS service does not actually appear to subsidize to the point where true costs are not accurately reflected. Remember that the USPS actually made money for many years. If the true costs are subsidized, then we shouldn't see profits especially after you remove government allocations. Even more interesting is that they made money after massive pensions, which are in no way actual costs to delivering the current mail suggesting that if we remove those pension costs, actual costs are much, much lower.
The caveat to that is that the large parcel profits may be cross subsidized on the high volume, low weight direct mailings. That I need more data on.
Even though the post office isn't supposed to be subsidized anymore I'm finding hits on government appropriations to the post office in its budget.
I'm going to do more research on it later.
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