Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:28:06 -0800 From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> Subject: Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
In a message written on Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:18:25AM +0800, Adrian Chadd= wrote:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010, Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote:
When was the last time USPS delivered you a 100 pound UPS unit over nig= ht from across the country while letting you track it's progress? =20 Trouble is, now they can't. Why? Because they'd be threatening the jobs of hard working Fedex/UPS/etc. employees.
It's crazier than you think.
http://www.usps.com/news/2001/press/pr01_015.htm
Express, Priority, and First Class mail flies FedEx, and has since 2001. I's part of a larger deal which is also why you now see a FedEx drop box at every post office.
I guess it's coopertition. I think I just made up a word. :)
So if it's illegal for you to put a letter inside a FedEx box,
Bzzt! It's -not- illegal to put a letter inside a FedEx box. It just has to have the appropriate (USPS) postage on it, _as_well_ as paying the FedEx service/delivery fee. This is true if it is just the letter you're sending, or if it is a sealed letter -inside- a box/package being shipped.. Now _live_scorpions_, on the other hand, are someting that the USPS _will_ delive, but AFAIK no 'express' service will handle. (One discovers some of the strangest things when one actually sits down and *reads* the _complete_ rules/regulation on a subject. In this case, it's the "Domestic Mail Manual". Scorpions are 'addressed' in 601.9.3.10)