Re: OT: Farmallhal, a new job for our tractors.

Posted by Hugh MacKay on January 30, 2007 at 03:30:11 from (216.208.58.97):

In Reply to: Re: OT: Farmallhal, a new job for our tractors. posted by farmallhal on January 29, 2007 at 18:36:07:

Hal: I guess I should have thought out this thread a bit more. I never intended it to be postal service bashing. I think with the onslot of e mail and courier companies, the postal service both here and in the US have fighting to retain their market share. They probably deal with less volume today, than 10 years ago.

After posting it hit me, this is also a bit of swipe at a guy like you, retired from Boeing. Somehow I doubt that one bothered you a whole lot.

I did intend this thread to be a satirical look at how big business and big systems have not made our services more efficient. Somehow I believe I could make money running from here to MO at $6,300. per trip with my 140. However I doubt if there is anyway around busy traffic locations and Interstate crossings of big rivers.

My intention was to remind folks mailing cross border, air mail, even though it costs more is actually slower that land mail. This is particularly true since 9-11, and I expect you'll find mail going onboard a plane gets just about as close scrutiny as we do. I rather doubt if there is as much mail going air as there once was. I know there are numerous crossings of US and Canadian mail trucks cross border daily. Not small trucks either, but 53 footers and trains. I could see those 26' to 30' train trailers being exceptionally useful.

My real point on this matter was don't go air mail. In the past 5 years I discovered all air mail cross border takes 8-10 days. I've had land mail both ways go in as little as 3 days even as far as IA and never more than 7 days regardlees of distance. This is the one I wanted to make folks aware of.

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