Хаб Федэкса в Мемфисе

[borislvin]

capka3m рассказывает о потрясающем. Вот это и есть прогресс цивилизации.

Самолеты начинают прибывать в хаб около 11 ночи, а в 2:30 сортировка заканчивается. За это время меняются экипажи, смена разгружает 170 самолетов, сортирует всю трансконтинентальную почту с лейблом next day delivery, и загружает ее обратно в самолеты.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/capka3m/152938.html
http://www.livejournal.com/users/capka3m/153316.html

Comments

[arbat.livejournal.com]

If USPS was not an artificial monopoly, FedEx and UPS could have overtaken the normal mail by now. As it is, the Constitution requirement for the Federal Government to provide the postal service is being understood as a prohibition for anyone else to do that. So, after all the years of computerization USPS raised prices and stopped delivering on Sundays. They actually do less service with so much more recources...

[capka3m.livejournal.com]

Yep. I think there was a Harvard business case on USPS - how they tried to pull their head out of their own a$$, and somewhat succeeded, but with no competition they are sliding back. Also, they are a union shop, so that makes any change very tough.

What's funny, though, FedEx ever since its founding in 1973 never (!) laid people off: they downsized only by offering incredibly generous packages. Their part-time sorters (the ones that work night shift) have full benefits. Etc. So their workers never even contemplated getting a union...