Casper Posted November 14, 2011 Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 I ordered a textbook online last week. Here's what the tracking number tells me:Picked Up by Shipping Partner, 2011-11-09, 14:24:00, COLUMBUS, OH, 43228Arrived Shipping Partner Facility, 2011-11-09, 19:40:00, HEBRON, KY, 41048Shipment Accepted, 2011-11-11, 19:15:00, COLUMBUS, OH, 43218Arrival at Post Office, 2011-11-14, 07:59:00, PICKERINGTON, OH, 43147I bought it from Half-Priced Books, which is here in Columbus. It left the westside of Columbus, and was sent to freaking Kentucky, then back up to Columbus, then to Pickerington. It would've been cheaper to have someone personally drive it to my house. It's only 25 miles. But there you go. The post office wants a federal bailout. I think there might be some other cost cutting measures they might be able to take. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jester3681 Posted November 14, 2011 Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 Picked Up by Shipping Partner, 2011-11-09, 14:24:00, COLUMBUS, OH, 43228It's possible they use a thrid-party shipping system (Stamps.com, etc) that routes their mail through a regional hub. It may be cheaper in the long run to send the very small amount of orders that ship to a local buyer (who is too lazy to drive to the other side of town ) along with other shipments than to split up the shipment. It's all large scale logistics. The Post Office just needs to re-evaluate its business model. It's costs are too high to support its income - there are two ways to solve this, neither of which is very good, but one of which or a little of both need to be done.UPS/FedEx make money because they simply don't have the overhead that the USPS does - nowhere near as many locations and their core business is the logistics of moving packages, not in posting them. My thoughts? Smaller, single employee Post Offices in grocery stores and/or business stores, like UPS. More online business - the Priority Mail business is fairly well developed. And at some point, we need to eliminate paper mail. It's simply antiquated in our society. The fact you can send a piece of paper across the country for $0.50 or so is simply not economically self supporting anymore. *sigh* Who know's what the answer is... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad324 Posted November 14, 2011 Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 and I thought Yellow was the only company moronic enough to do such a thingI can't tell you how many times I'd look at the shipping receipt to figure out which trailer I needed to get it on and off our dock just to laugh and think "why the hell is this going there, makes no sense" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disclaimer Posted November 14, 2011 Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 Why didn't you pay a private company to send it? Quit supporting the communist post-office...that is a Constitutionally establish organizationthat hasn't been funded through "taxes" or taxpayers since 1982.(save for the $96M they use to provide free postage to legally blind people, and overseas ballots)Socialist bastids! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jst2fst Posted November 14, 2011 Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 I ordered a textbook online last week. Here's what the tracking number tells me:I bought it from Half-Priced Books, which is here in Columbus. It left the westside of Columbus, and was sent to freaking Kentucky, then back up to Columbus, then to Pickerington. It would've been cheaper to have someone personally drive it to my house. It's only 25 miles. But there you go. The post office wants a federal bailout. I think there might be some other cost cutting measures they might be able to take. Package Services Out for Delivery November 14' date=' 2011, 9:13 am COLUMBUS, OH 43232 [b']Expected Delivery By: November 14, 2011 Delivery Confirmation™ Sorting Complete November 14, 2011, 9:03 am COLUMBUS, OH 43232 Arrival at Post Office November 14, 2011, 8:15 am COLUMBUS, OH 43232 Processed through USPS Sort Facility November 13, 2011, 10:44 pm COLUMBUS, OH 43218 Processed through USPS Sort Facility November 12, 2011, 10:10 pm LOUISVILLE, KY 40231 Processed through USPS Sort Facility November 08, 2011, 7:27 am CINCINNATI, OH 45235 Processed through USPS Sort Facility November 07, 2011, 2:56 pm CINCINNATI, OH 45235 Processed at USPS Origin Sort Facility November 03, 2011, 2:55 am FEDERAL WAY, WA 98003 Accepted at USPS Origin Sort Facility November 03, 2011, 2:55 am FEDERAL WAY, WA 98003 Electronic Shipping Info Received November 01, 2011 Shipment Accepted November 01, 2011, 1:38 pm MEDFORD, OR 97501 This is my package that was coming from Oregon and it sat in Cincinnati for 3-4 days then headed to Kentucky then back up to Columbus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jst2fst Posted November 14, 2011 Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 Oh, I fail at editing myself in previous post. Direct copy and paste also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jporter12 Posted November 14, 2011 Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 Tracking info This is my package that was coming from Oregon and it sat in Cincinnati for 3-4 days then headed to Kentucky then back up to Columbus. Louisville isn't far from Cinci... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OsuMj Posted November 14, 2011 Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 My friend sent me homemade biscotti for christmas from AZ and I got it at the end of february. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beegreenstrings Posted November 14, 2011 Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 I got a due envelope in the mail today for .20 for insufficent postage? On what... I have not sent anything out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted November 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 It's possible they use a thrid-party shipping system (Stamps.com, etc) that routes their mail through a regional hub. It may be cheaper in the long run to send the very small amount of orders that ship to a local buyer (who is too lazy to drive to the other side of town ) along with other shipments than to split up the shipment. It's all large scale logistics. The Post Office just needs to re-evaluate its business model. It's costs are too high to support its income - there are two ways to solve this, neither of which is very good, but one of which or a little of both need to be done.UPS/FedEx make money because they simply don't have the overhead that the USPS does - nowhere near as many locations and their core business is the logistics of moving packages, not in posting them. My thoughts? Smaller, single employee Post Offices in grocery stores and/or business stores, like UPS. More online business - the Priority Mail business is fairly well developed. And at some point, we need to eliminate paper mail. It's simply antiquated in our society. The fact you can send a piece of paper across the country for $0.50 or so is simply not economically self supporting anymore. *sigh* Who know's what the answer is...Pickup wasn't an option, or I would've most certainly done that instead. I need it for a class I'm currently taking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted November 14, 2011 Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 (edited) thats just how it works. its called a hub and spoke system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoke-hub_distribution_paradigmeverything goes through the hub, unless its time critical. if it's time critical, then you would have chosen priority or overnight and it can go spoke to spoke. its not really a waste, because that truck was going to kentucky with or without your package. its not like they made a special trip just for that package.USPS handles more than 500 million pieces of mail every day, im sure they've figured out what works, and know what they are doing lol.in the early days, fedex used to ship EVERYTHING through memphis. if you shipped standard from philly to NYC, it would go from philly to memphis, then from memphis to NYC. again, this is for standard shipping. if you ship overnight, then it can go straight from philly to NYC. nowadays they have a lot more hubs (there's one in grove city) though, so not everything goes through memphis.heres an animation showing fedex's hub and spoke system.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzsXqawswPc&feature=player_embedded Edited November 14, 2011 by John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad324 Posted November 14, 2011 Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 ^^^in theory when done right it works great. However, sometimes (see Yellow) companies botch it up with stupidity and curious decision making Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jester3681 Posted November 14, 2011 Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 Guys, if you think package logistics is counter intuitive, ask a railroader about how freight is moved around. It's best to just not ask questions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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