I've said that we need to cut Sat delivery at a minimum, and possibly only deliver 3 days/wk for residential customers. If you need something delivered on Sat, charge extra like FedEx.
What so many people here fail to realize is what's actually expensive is the last mile. USPS is pretty much mandated to service every address, which is why they charge roughly the same rate no matter where it goes.
Compare that to UPS or FedEx. If you're a commercial address in a big city, you're cheap to deliver to. If you live out in a farm 50 miles away from the nearest anything, you're expensive as fuck to ship to. Delivery area fee. Remote area fee. Residential delivery fee. Rural area fee (yes all 4). I have literally paid ups more money to ship a one pound package 500 miles away than I have to ship a 30 pound box 2,200 miles away. Because that 30 pound box went to a major city and a business address, whereas for that one pound box, the ups driver took two hours to make that one delivery and used a quarter tank of gas in the process.
But of course many people here live out in the middle of nowhere. They don't realize how much companies actually pay to ship to you. You don't realize how much city people are subsidizing your shipping. Most businesses realize that the vast vast majority of their business (unless it's a business specifically targeting the rural demographic) will be people in big cities and randomly paying a little more to deliver to someone in a very rural area isn't a big deal.
I've said that we need to cut Sat delivery at a minimum, and possibly only deliver 3 days/wk for residential customers. If you need something delivered on Sat, charge extra like FedEx.
What so many people here fail to realize is what's actually expensive is the last mile. USPS is pretty much mandated to service every address, which is why they charge roughly the same rate no matter where it goes.
Compare that to UPS or FedEx. If you're a commercial address in a big city, you're cheap to deliver to. If you live out in a farm 50 miles away from the nearest anything, you're expensive as fuck to ship to. Delivery area fee. Remote area fee. Residential delivery fee. Rural area fee (yes all 4). I have literally paid ups more money to ship a one pound package 500 miles away than I have to ship a 30 pound box 2,200 miles away. Because that 30 pound box went to a major city and a business address, whereas for that one pound box, the ups driver took two hours to make that one delivery and used a quarter tank of gas in the process.
But of course many people here live out in the middle of nowhere. They don't realize how much companies actually pay to ship to you. You don't realize how much city people are subsidizing your shipping. Most businesses realize that the vast vast majority of their business (unless it's a business specifically targeting the rural demographic) will be people in big cities and randomly paying a little more to deliver to someone in a very rural area isn't a big deal.