{"id":9072,"date":"2013-06-20T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9072"},"modified":"2013-06-20T08:50:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T12:50:15","slug":"how-package-delivery-services-compare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/how-package-delivery-services-compare\/","title":{"rendered":"How Package Delivery Services Compare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/062013_1246_HowPackageD1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2010 Glenn Derene compared UPS, FedEx and USPS to see which delivery company was the most careful with packages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Packages sent by FedEx suffered the most drops while those sent by USPS faced the least.<\/li>\n<li>Across all carriers marking a package as &#8216;fragile&#8217; led to <em>rougher <\/em>treatment of the box.<\/li>\n<li>A USPS package deals with an average temperature change of 32 (presumably Fahrenheit) degrees. A FedEx package is exposed to temperature changes of 26 degrees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/gadgets\/tests\/which-shipping-company-is-kindest-to-your-packages?click=pp\">here <\/a>to read the comments of the three shipping companies, graphs that illustrate the conditions that the packages experienced and more.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/gadgets\/tests\/which-shipping-company-is-kindest-to-your-packages?click=pp\">Popular Mechanics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2010 Glenn Derene compared UPS, FedEx and USPS to see which delivery company was the most careful with packages: Packages sent by FedEx suffered the most drops while those sent by USPS faced the least. Across all carriers marking a package as &#8216;fragile&#8217; led to rougher treatment of the box. A USPS package [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/062013_1246_HowPackageD1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9074,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072\/revisions\/9074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}