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01/06/08
Well that's just stupid
In an age in which UPS requires its drivers to minimize the number of left turns they take in order to reduce fuel consumption, it seems kind of stupid that a package shipped to my apartment in Manhattan from not 15 miles away in Brooklyn should get shipped 200 miles to-and-from Allentown, PA before it reaches my front door.
How’s that for proof positive of DHL’s claim to be “maximising the efficiency of our network, for example by optimising our delivery routes”?
Oh, and so much for the estimated delivery date. That was clearly worth the shipping costs. I would’ve been better of with a bike messenger. Or picking it up in person…
Domestic outsourcing and zoning strategies; a letter frommy villaage to the next village a mile a while nowadays travels about 100 miles thanks to different zones the villages are located in. A worker in Allentown, PA probably is way cheaper than a worker in Manhattan. Add possibly lower local business taxes, the possibility of expansion, a demographic of people that qualify for the workers needed (e.g. lower / average / higher education) to the equation, and you’ll get an idea of what corporations consider before settling down – and even work at profit.
Sorry for the typos above…
Modern Times.
Eh – I tracked a UPS delivery last month – they drove from Syracuse to Rochester past my thruway exit…then the next day back to Geneva from Rochester. I fear that online tracking makes us all neurotics.
That’s probably where the sorting location is at. It’s the original Federal Express hub & spoke model — everything was shipped to FedEx hq down south, sorted over night, then flown to the destination for delivery.
The question to ask is, how common is your situation, of an inside NYC shipment, and what would be required to avoid routing to PA? Sure you could scan everything as it comes in, and then sort those that stay in NYC… but you then need to have some NYC place for even the local sorting to take place.
How does UPS handle it? Do they deliver via Seacus?