This was inevitable
Earlier this year, I had a brief Facebook conversation with a pal who was incensed by my update exhorting the Post Office to move to an all week delivery model.
My suggestion was brought about by my getting Amazon Prime deliveries on both Saturdays and Sundays.
His rationale was that it would roll back the gains labor unions achieved in getting weekends set aside for them.
My point was that some people prefer to work on weekends, and that USPS should take advantage of that to stave off the onslaught of Amazon.
In the past couple of weeks, there have been new developments.
Firstly, Amazon has moved to a 1-day delivery schedule for [mostly-] all Amazon Prime purchases.
Today, the other shoe dropped: FedEx will now start 7-day deliveries.
Again, no doubt because Amazon is looming in their rear-view mirror.
Additionally, it is pulling back the nearly 2 million daily deliveries handled for it by USPS.
Yes, you can imagine how painful the loss of over 600 million annual delivered packages would be to the Post Office.
I fully expect both UPS and USPS (the Post Office) to follow suit.
Story here.
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