02-07-2013, 01:34 PM
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Originally posted by pahoated
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Originally posted by HereOnThePrimalEdge
FedEx has specialized sorting facilities with equipment not found at their other shipping warehouses. Honolulu isn't set up to sort the packages, but Oakland is. Here's what it looks like:
http://www.technobuffalo.com/wp-content/...ility.jpeg
Yes, and Anchorage also has a Fedex sorting facility. I also know about the Fedex distribution system. It is called network topology. I also know about great circles but the great circle from Shanghai to Anchorage and from Anchorage to Honolulu is a much greater distance than from Shanghai to Honolulu. I think this is more of a result of Honolulu being too congested to have a Fedex sorting facility, which is why I mentioned the Big Island has the space, but we know that is never going to happen. And while the Fedex system may be amazing, not many people realize Fedex has been taking advantage of another system that is heavily government subsidized and that is going under even with the government absorbing huge losses trying to run it. Part of Fedex's business practice is use the cheapest route possible and that is often on the back of the US Post Office:
http://www.santabarbarapackandpost.com/a...t-customer
FedEx is the US Post Office's biggest customer!
Now, the question is what happens with a package from Pahoa sent to Shanghai via Fedex. Same routes? Although the pipeline I am looking at is only sending digital data to China, so the question is academic for me.
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Ted,
It is the opposite.
The US Post Office has had to resort to using Fed Ex to deliver its mail.
The contract Fed Ex has with the US Post Office is up for re-bid soon too.
The business model Fed Ex has used since its inception is the main reason the US Postal Service has more or less failed.