17 Nov
2000
17 Nov
'00
2:44 a.m.
On November 17, George Rachor wrote:
Ebay... an unconfirmed rumor....
I had heard that for the year 1999 5% of United Parcel Service's
residential business was due to Ebay.
Love or hate... That is a substantial sum.
Wow...that is *frightening*. I live a few miles from a UPS
depot...every day, if I drive past there anytime in the morning, I see
a veritable ARMY of brown trucks just pouring out of that facility.
Those people move A LOT of packages.
I mean, it should be obvious, they're a shipping company. But I had
no idea of the true scale we're talking about until I saw those
hundreds of trucks pulling out one morning.
5% of that is ONE HUGE PILE of stuff.
-Dave McGuire