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Re:UPS’s $20B Problem: Operations Stuck in the 20th Century by toomuchtodo on Saturday June 16, 2018 @09:41PM (#17330490)
Amazon, with all of its technological and operations might, is pathetically terrible at their own last mile delivery operations (I'm going to discount them hauling trailers from distribution centers to USPS sort facilities; anyone can do that). To displace UPS and Fedex, you would require immense amounts of capital for your delivery network, and staff properly compensated and treated well for quality work (ie a union or benefits of sufficient quality, a union isn't required).

Arm chair "logistics experts" should go sling packages for a few weeks to see what it takes to compete with real operations before declaring existing operations dead if they don't "disrupt themselves". UPS, Fedex, and USPS aren't going anywhere.

Re:UPS’s $20B Problem: Operations Stuck in the 20th Century by jjeaff on Sunday June 17, 2018 @03:46AM (#17331346)
While I agree that delivery logistics are not easy, I don’t think it is something that will take massive amounts of capital. Simply increasing the compensation for delivery people high enough to get competent full timers would likely solve the problem. And due to the union wages of ups, there is a lot of room to raise wages for drivers.
Re:UPS’s $20B Problem: Operations Stuck in the 20th Century by toast0 on Sunday June 17, 2018 @12:12PM (#17332963)
The trick with the capital requirements is Amazon is totally willing to contract out to small regional conpanies; so you can have big plans, but start small and grow, if it works out. There's room outside of Amazon delivery too.
Re:UPS’s $20B Problem: Operations Stuck in the 20th Century by toomuchtodo on Sunday June 17, 2018 @02:16PM (#17333528)
Name a regional last mile delivery firm with the quality of UPS, FedEx, or USPS.
Re:UPS’s $20B Problem: Operations Stuck in the 20th Century by jcims on Sunday June 17, 2018 @04:07PM (#17334057)
FedEx full timers. Their subcontractors are terrible.
Re:UPS’s $20B Problem: Operations Stuck in the 20th Century by toomuchtodo on Sunday June 17, 2018 @05:16PM (#17334378)
I haven’t had bad luck with Ground or Home Delivery, but I could see there’s variability based on location.