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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I always wondered how private companies could compete considering the letter carrier comes every single day. How much extra would it cost for a package to be delivered along with the letters compared with a company that doesn't visit daily and delvers no letters?
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A few packages here and there no big deal. Say 20 over 700 stops. That's what it used to be. Now it's 150 every 700 stops on a light day and 300+ on a heavy day. UPS drivers don't delivery that many on a daily basis doing only packages in an 8 hour shift. So those days it's more like you have a little mail to deliver with the packages and on a normal day it's 40% packages filling your time. Keep in mind I can do literally 50 letters and maybe 10 stops for just letters as fast as one package. If the package needs a signature double or triple that time.
Without the packages all together they could probably double the length of most routes meaning only 1/2 the workforce would be needed. Cut our labor costs in 1/2 and take out all the parcel revenue and we would be into the black instead of almost 10 billion a year in the red.