{"id":9025,"date":"2013-06-13T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9025"},"modified":"2013-06-13T11:20:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T15:20:29","slug":"ups-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/ups-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"UPS Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/061313_1518_UPSNumbers1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"433\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UPS is rolling out a new delivery management system. Marcus Wohlsen used it as an opportunity to look at some of the unbelievable numbers behind the package delivery company:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The average UPS driver makes 120 deliveries a day. There are 15 trillion, trillion possible routes that the driver could take to make those deliveries \u2013 far more than the age of the earth in nanoseconds.<\/li>\n<li>And UPS has 55,000 delivery drivers. Those calculations have to be made for every single one of them.<\/li>\n<li>Figuring out a better delivery management system is a lucrative initiative for UPS \u2013 reducing the average amount driven by just 1 mile can save $30 million.<\/li>\n<li>UPS also has a meticulous truck packaging system that minimizes the number of inches a driver has to reach to grab a package to deliver.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the delivery efficiency manual that UPS uses, the importance of human intuition, and the new delivery management system that it is developing over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/business\/2013\/06\/ups-astronomical-math\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/business\/2013\/06\/ups-astronomical-math\/\">Wired<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPS is rolling out a new delivery management system. Marcus Wohlsen used it as an opportunity to look at some of the unbelievable numbers behind the package delivery company: The average UPS driver makes 120 deliveries a day. There are 15 trillion, trillion possible routes that the driver could take to make those deliveries \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/061313_1518_UPSNumbers1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9028,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025\/revisions\/9028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}