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Old 12-24-2019, 04:42 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by redpoint5 View Post
Well the reason I ask about a shipping/receiving department is that I worked on a large campus (manufacturing facility). It was about 5 miles to walk the perimeter of the property with 60 buildings. There is 1 building dedicated to shipping/receiving. If things need to go to other buildings, it goes via appropriate means, from hand delivery, to a panel van, to a forklift, to a golf cart.
Our campus has their own receiving building that then separates and distributes to each department. We just deliver a load to each dorm and a load to that one office. Their distribution center has 1 or maybe 2 Grumman LLVs like the Post Office but with high roofs and A/C added . The university's trucks can go and park wherever they want like their maintenance trucks do. Things like parking is never a concern for the Post Office, we park where we want to an extent UPS and FedEx do too. People just want their stuff and will put up with a lot to avoid having to drive down to the Post office or distribution center to get their loot.
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