Posted on 11/29/2007 12:02:29 PM PST by JZelle
Sounds like a business opportunity to me. I think even I could probably design, build, and ship “DVD Sorters” to the USPS for about half of that $20-million.
Not really. The USPS by law has a monopoly on first class mail delivery. I have no doubt that Fed Ex and UPS could easily do 1st class cheaper and faster than USPS, provided they had the economic incentives to make the appropriate capital investments. But their current systems, and the government mandated monopoly on 1st Class mail, wouldn't allow them to do the same service at a competitive price.
http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Catalog(1383)-SanDisk_Sansa_TakeTV_Video_Player.aspx
No, in this case they just need to properly define what gets charged extra for not being machine sortable, and DVD rental companies will use better materials for their mailing envelopes because that costs less than the 17 cents the post office would charge them per item.
In this case simply push the costs back to the customer and the customer will fix the problem with the envelopes they are using.
And what 'law' would that be? You can give me the section, paragraph and clause, and I can look at the wording here: http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title39/title39.html
Hey now that’s really cool...thanks for the link.
It’s plastic, just throw it in the furnace.
My uncle retired from the post office after well over 30 years last year. He was fairly high ranking. He was loved by those above him, and hated by the shop stewards and union goons. He knew their contracts better than they did and would bust them on any and all attempts to circumvent or abuse aspects of them. They also hated him because his areas always had the lowest overtime expense in the country. When an overtime problem appeared somewhere he would come in and fix it. They hated him.
He was about the most anti-union, anti-government guy in a high up, union, government job.
He also enjoyed jerking around customers who warranted jerking around.
My cousin, his son, is a totally slack off postal carrier. I bitch about not getting my mail when there is a car within 10 fee of my mailbox, such as on a saturday when company is over. He says, "well, we don't have to deliver if there is a car there." Fed Ex would deliver is they had to park a quarter mile away and walk I tell him. He responds, well pay their prices. I tell him, I do because even at that price you won't guarantee next day delivery.
As long as the company doesn't hire Paul Krugman as a top advisor it should do fine.
As a former employee of the Post Office, I can tell you that this is totally their fault. The equipment they use in many cases is so antiquated that when a machine breaks, they simply archive the unit for parts and decrease capacity. I worked for months on a manual labelling machine, while in plain sight I could see the a poster advertising the machine that was supposed to do my job automatically.
upgrade your pc, add a dvd burner.
That’s why my next PC build will be in a case like this:
http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=15739
Just looks like any other AV component...
(There are other brands besides Antec, this was just a convenient link)
I call BS. On a 60 minutes program, netflix has its’ own sorting machines and system, equal to USPS. They ship such a massive volume, they have to use their own system or they can’t meet the customer expectation. Sounds like a puff piece to justify a postal rate increase. A**holes. Just tell us the truth: that they can’t run an organization within budget.
Where I work, when a machine doesn't behave, we redesign it, especially if we know things are only going to get worse.
In exchange for $5M, Netflix can switch to a more machine-friendly envelope and save the PO most of their Netflix handling expenses, While covering Netflix's design, conversion and material costs for the next couple of years.
If the PO doesn't go for it, tell 'em to pound sand.
HF
I think you’re partially right. The problem is how does the movie get TO Netflix and Blockbuster after you have watched it. Notice the entire article revolves around the return aspect of the cycle.
OK USPS you win.
No more DVD’s through the mail - we will just download the content.
Instead of adapting to the business enviornment by purchasing equipment to deal with your customers needs, raise the rates and drive them elsewhere.
Genius.
I can’t wait until the government handles my healthcare.
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