Here in Aus our postal service is backing up. Auspost said they were't picking up parcels for 4 days to try to get through the backlog...which coming into the months before Christmas surely is only going to cause more of a backlog... They're all creating shortages on purpose.
That's been going on for quite a while with other countries.
It's to do with the lack of passenger flights. When you take them away, you take a vast majority of your available air freight slots away.
When you diminish pax flights, you diminish staff at airports. When you do that, it breaks down the logistics chain.
You create a bottle neck. Country A has backed up parcels and limited flights going out, Country B has limited flights coming in, less need for airport staff, Country A needs less airport staff because of less flights. Country B can only accept finite amount of cargo flights per airport, per day because of SOP. Repeat for Country A.
It goes in a cycle. There are only so many planes fitted for cargo. Pax + cargo is aux. You can't run a near empty pax flight with regular cargo as its not feasible for the airline nor the airport.
u/#wildwest
Howls..
I already expect USPS delivery to be slow as hell so this doesn’t surprise me.
Even slower? 🐢
Is that even possible? Apparently that is what is going to happen.
Howls....
Strategic
Here in Aus our postal service is backing up. Auspost said they were't picking up parcels for 4 days to try to get through the backlog...which coming into the months before Christmas surely is only going to cause more of a backlog... They're all creating shortages on purpose.
It’ll be a new catagory of confirmed delivery $.xx rate.
The infamous "Priority Mail Express" ...
It could arrive the next day, but then again maybe not...Howls....
Is the vaccine still mandatory for USPS?
Sounds like a broke govt
That's been going on for quite a while with other countries.
It's to do with the lack of passenger flights. When you take them away, you take a vast majority of your available air freight slots away.
When you diminish pax flights, you diminish staff at airports. When you do that, it breaks down the logistics chain.
You create a bottle neck. Country A has backed up parcels and limited flights going out, Country B has limited flights coming in, less need for airport staff, Country A needs less airport staff because of less flights. Country B can only accept finite amount of cargo flights per airport, per day because of SOP. Repeat for Country A.
It goes in a cycle. There are only so many planes fitted for cargo. Pax + cargo is aux. You can't run a near empty pax flight with regular cargo as its not feasible for the airline nor the airport.