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JBTaurus83

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2. My dad retired from UPS

Reply to IrishBubbaLiberal (Original post)

Tue Apr 29, 2025, 12:35 PM

Apr 2025

He said the company makes their profit from deliveries to businesses. Delivering house to house, especially in rural areas is actually a loss for them. Every few years they sign a contract with Amazon, and, Amazon no longer wants to pay UPS what they are requestig for their deliveries. He said they have also floated only doing residential deliveries once every other day in the past.

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