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Offline Denis Kolar

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Why are we paying high USPS rates? Here is the answer.....
« on: August 06, 2013, 08:57:24 AM »
Package shipped from Strongsville, Ohio to Uniontown, Ohio.

Distance 46 miles, or 50 minutes driving.

Please check tracking shapshot :)   LOL


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Re: Why are we paying high USPS rates? Here is the answer.....
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2013, 09:34:01 AM »

Somehow they make it more cost effective to ship all to one hub and spider it out from there. Seems more time consuming but I think the kicker is, it cost less...for the 3-5 day ground but it tales longer.  What did it cost you to ship it there?


To hire a person to drive it:$15.00   (rounded) in gas, @ 3.45 per gallon in an average vehicle @ 23 miles per gallon,
$25.00   $12.50 pr hour to pay someone two hours round trip.


$40.00 shipping.


If you have or can pay some trustworthy person to drive it.
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Re: Why are we paying high USPS rates? Here is the answer.....
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2013, 09:40:31 AM »
One of my clients is literally 1 mile away from me, 2 turns, 2 major roads.  I recently got a check from them in the mail and it was post marked Baton Rouge... this is 1 hour away.

I THOUGHT we had a major hub in town but I remember rumors of it shutting down, I'll have to ask my wife's uncle he recently retired from the post office after like 30 something years.

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Re: Why are we paying high USPS rates? Here is the answer.....
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2013, 09:53:11 AM »
Track a UPS package. It i just as bad if not worse.
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Re: Why are we paying high USPS rates? Here is the answer.....
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2013, 10:24:16 AM »
I love Brown, but FedEx ground gets things here faster from the same locations
across the country. It really helps in certain times.