UPS

[George K]

Ran into Chris, my UPS delivery guy in the lobby of my building this afternoon. He's been our UPS guy for at least 15 years. As we rode up in the elevator, I asked him if he's a lot busier since the pandemic took grip.

"And how," he said. "I used to do this town all by myself, now there are two trucks delivering. I've got 210 deliveries, and the other guy has 230."

My town's population is about 8500. There are 3,190 households.

So those 440 deliveries means that almost 14% of my town is getting a delivery TODAY. And that's just UPS. I'm sure that FedEx and others have seen a similar spike.

[Axtremus]

@George-K said in UPS:

So those 440 deliveries means that almost 14% of my town is getting a delivery TODAY. And that's just UPS. I'm sure that FedEx and others have seen a similar spike.

Translates to about one delivery per household per week from UPS.
(14% roughly equals 1/7.)

Maybe double that to two deliveries per household per week if you also add FedEx and assume that FedEx delivers at similar rate.

[Copper]

A couple days ago a light bulb burned out.

So I replaced it and bought a (cheap) box of 24 bulbs.

They came today USPS.

A year ago I would have picked a couple up at the hardware store or supermarket.

[89th]

Interesting...we are definitely becoming a "buy online, get it quickly" society. A consumer shift I only see accelerating.

[Klaus]

I guess we get at least 500 deliveries per year. Definitely more than one per day.

[jon-nyc]

Not me I make everything I need from bamboo and paper.

Except my chastity cage, that was delivered from China.

[Jolly]

And Jon's wife, with the code memorized, smiled.

[Larry]

@Klaus said in UPS:

I guess we get at least 500 deliveries per year. Definitely more than one per day.

Without providing the exact statistics how do we know what you're saying is true?....

[Klaus]

It probably isn't. Don't believe anything I say. Including this post.