Who moves the U.S. Mail?

[PHXFLYR]

It was actually an Emery contract, subcontracted to many other companies. Ryan and Express One did the Express/Priority mail overnight stuff, and a whole bunch of other operators did the daytime overflow operation. Ryan and Express One were the only ones with the USPS paintjob though.

God how I miss postal flying, those were some good times!

And a great way of jumpseating back and forth to work,too!


PHXFLYR

 

[AerroMatt]

....and here I thought the U.S. Postal service moved the U.S. mail :smash: .


TP

Au contrare. USPS handles local pick up/delivery and sorting work, but they contract out nearly all the long line work as far as i could ever make out. I've delivered numerous loads of mail to USPS bulk mail centers in places like downtown Los Angeles, and Columbus OH. LA was great so long as the load was palletized. I hated Columbus because it was usually a floor load and the USPS workers refused to unload it, so the Driver had to unload his trailer by hand onto a conveyor belt. It didn't matter how exhausted he was from driving all night to get the load there on time, he had to fingerprint all those boxes.

 

[P-Dawg_QX]

HA! Funny, I was just about to start a thread asking a similar question - "What happened to the USPS airplanes?" Had it all written out and everything. Had a funny feeling that I should do a search on USPS first, and alas, this thread appears, answering all my questions. Wasn't even an old thread, either. Strange.

:laugh:

 

[SlapShot]

Didn't Kitty Hawk have a contract for a bunch of west coast flying? I remember seeing a USPS Kitty Hawk bird along side a Express One 72 in PDX. I also remember having to wait for a Kitty Hawk 72 to arrive from somewhere while we were waiting in DEN.

 

[freightdogfred]

Here's the scoop-

Priority and Express mail is delivered by Fedex, the result of a 6 billion dollar contract awarded to them. This was the result of the USPS terminating their contract with CNF, the parent company of Emery Worldwide. The reasons for this is another long, sad story. The 727's painted in postal office colors were Emery airplanes, operated by Ryan out of Indy at the Postal sort facility. (otherwise known as the "mailbox".) This sort was primarily Express Mail. The Priority mail sort was in Dayton. The Express one 727's did the "W" net, which was a west coast sort out of Mather.

Fedex does the whole thing now...and if they hired me I could tell you where.

 

[72f8dawg]

Kitty Hawk had the west net not express one, Also did the C-net (christmas ) out of Blyville a few years.

 

[HoursHore]

Fedex does the whole thing now...and if they hired me I could tell you where.

We use our same sort facilities, (MEM, EWR, OAK, AFW, IND), only during the Day.