PSA -- 50K packages per DAY?

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by perezfan

Great pic...

That explains a lot about why such a high percentage of my Fed Ex shipments arrive damaged.... and why they won't insure valuable memorabilia.

...and a package goes through several facilities like that, to get where it's going. Whether it's FedEx, UPS or USPS. It's amazing it works as well as it does.

I worked in a UPS warehouse in the 90's. A much smaller facility then the one pictured there, but that looks about right.

50K packages per day to PSA? I don't know...that seems like a lot. I used to load and fill up 40 Foot trailers for UPS, and didn't touch anywhere near that many packages in a day. I don't think our entire crew in our section touched near that amount of packages, and we'd fill (or come close to filling) 6-8 trailers in a non-stop 5-6 hour shift of totally busting our asses from beginning to end. This is just packing trucks...not unboxing and cataloging on top of that.

50K "Cards" per day, seems a bit more reasonable to believe.