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Spooky23today at 2:34 AM0 repliesview on HN

They are optimizing for time and cost, not message board clout :)

They presort regionally and the trucks at the delivery stations are loaded with assigned containers/pouches of packages. It doesn’t make sense to hold a truck for a pouch and doesn’t really save anything to have ground covered twice.

They do other stuff too. They schlep heavy stuff on UPS, and hazardous or liquids usually go USPS.