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Nobody is shipping 500 packages/day over the counter.
by ghshephard 6y ago
Nobody is shipping 500 packages/day over the counter.
- Consultant32452 6y agoI would love to try this one day as long as the Benny Hill song can play in the background as I make trips from my van into a retail UPS store.
- CaliforniaKarl 6y agoI have a friend who works in a UPS Store. He has been working 10+-hour days for the last two weeks, on top of a bicycle commute (which will sometimes turn into an hour-long walk if the winds are bad), picking up groceries, etc.. They have as many employees as they are allowed to have (given the store size), and right now the work is never-ending. > I would love to try this one day as long as the Benny Hill song can play in the background as I make trips from my van into a retail UPS store. Please don't do this, or even joke about it.
- pmiller2 6y agoSeriously. The UPS store I go to always has a line, usually extending out the door due to 6' distancing, and it probably would not literally hold 500 average-sized packages. I know it certainly would not hold 500 additional, average-sized packages.
- Consultant32452 6y agoThe UPS store I go to sometimes has one other customer.
- ethbr0 6y agoCan I ship you a package to ship from your UPS store?
- Consultant32452 6y agoSure bro, fedex it to me.
- irrational 6y agoThis was my thought. I was just at a UPS store and there was nobody else there. I assume some are just busier than others.
- dsohn0 6y agoJesus get off your high horse. What an asshole thing to say.
- jjjjoe 6y agoI helped a friend pack and ship a successful Kickstarter campaign. The first time we showed up at the UPS store with a minivan full of boxes they made us set up an account. They had no interest in an "anonymous" transaction for more than a couple packages.
- Consultant32452 6y agoDon't be a slacker. You have to bring in one at a time. If they kick you out you gotta move on to the next UPS store.
- Retric 6y agoFedEx would only pick up 110 Letterfolk packages per day ... Galbraith had a queue of 3,000 orders waiting to go out. There are 26 UPS stores in San Francisco for example. 10 packages at each location per person is hardly going to raise red flags. Use multiple people and add in FedEx and you could probably cover their 3k package backlog in one day. It's not going to cheap or scalable, but you can bet some people are going that route.