Drubin,
MBE, the parent company, is owned by UPS. Therefore, the relationship between MBE and UPS is much more incestuous than I thought. It makes it interesting that there are
few or no ways in many localites to get UPS to accept a package through any sort of retail outlet other than MBE and yet, as you correctly state, their premium is enormous. In NYC, as soon as UPS bought MBE and as soon as MBE outlets started appearing on every block in Manhattan, UPS closed all of their manned retail outlets (storefronts). The relationship between MBE and UPS explains why MBE refuses and has no provisions for shipping via Fedex ground. MBE evidently perceives Fedex ground as too direct a competition to UPS' bread and butter ground service. For the high premium of shipping UPS via a retail outlet, and the UPS damage horror stories, I had stopped using UPS. Then, Fedex damaged a speaker that I shipped via air express ...
MBE, the parent company, is owned by UPS. Therefore, the relationship between MBE and UPS is much more incestuous than I thought. It makes it interesting that there are
few or no ways in many localites to get UPS to accept a package through any sort of retail outlet other than MBE and yet, as you correctly state, their premium is enormous. In NYC, as soon as UPS bought MBE and as soon as MBE outlets started appearing on every block in Manhattan, UPS closed all of their manned retail outlets (storefronts). The relationship between MBE and UPS explains why MBE refuses and has no provisions for shipping via Fedex ground. MBE evidently perceives Fedex ground as too direct a competition to UPS' bread and butter ground service. For the high premium of shipping UPS via a retail outlet, and the UPS damage horror stories, I had stopped using UPS. Then, Fedex damaged a speaker that I shipped via air express ...