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@chameleon54 wrote:

I cant understand the logic. The mail is not going to stop being generated, just because AP stop moving it. If they stop collections for a week, its just going to result in a huge backlog once they start collections again. They charge us enough for the service, and their executives get paid enough to manage the operations. Just hire more people and go back to manually sorting mail like they did two or three years ago if the new mail sorting facilities cant cope..

 

Heaven help us when the Christmas rush starts to crank up if AP is already falling apart now.

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I expect that they hope at least a few sellers will find alternative carriers for most of their mail - halting pick-ups would mean disruption to some of the highest volume senders they have (i.e. the kind of volume that would be impossible to take in and lodge over the counter), but at the same time those are the kind of sellers who would favour the least amount of disruption possible and look for alternatives to keep things flowing as smoothly as possible. 

That in turn means these kinds of actions are also a kind of voluntary loss of revenue for AP, which they didn't even do when they couldn't send on all the international parcels they were taking, so I suspect it's a last resort measure.