Rick Brooks reports in Thursday's Wall Street Journal Online that UPS is quietly rolling out a new bare-bones service that will soon begin dumping thousands of packages a day into the mail system for regular USPS letter carriers to deliver.
UPS Basic is designed to appeal to mail-order merchants and has angered post-office officials and UPS's own Teamsters union. The Journal article says the new service exploits a postal discount program that was designed for very different purposes.
"New UPS Delivery Service Sends Packages Through the Post Office"
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