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E-Commerce's Biggest Obstacle May Be Slow Postal Services (thestreet.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the always-ringing-twice dept.

Long-time Slashdot reader rudy_wayne writes: J.C. Penney CEO Marvin Ellison recently said that e-commerce companies' biggest challenge is that they are all expanding their businesses and pushing for faster delivery, but UPS, Fedex and especially the United States Postal Service aren't able to keep up, at least not at same cost that exists today, because they're not increasing their delivery capacity at the same rate e-commerce is growing, He said this will cause a supply and demand issue "that's going to be apparent here pretty soon."

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  1. Re: Easy solution. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Congratulations on not even reading the summary: "UPS, Fedex and especially the United States Postal Service aren't able to keep up"

  2. Re:Abolish the USPS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, shut down the USPS because you don't like some guy. Sounds legit.