Love 'em or hate 'em...

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Fri Nov 17 10:44:54 2000

On November 17, George Rachor wrote:
> Ebay... an unconfirmed rumor....
>
> I had heard that for the year 1999 5% of United Parcel Service's
> residential business was due to Ebay.
>
> Love or hate... That is a substantial sum.

  Wow...that is *frightening*. I live a few miles from a UPS
depot...every day, if I drive past there anytime in the morning, I see
a veritable ARMY of brown trucks just pouring out of that facility.
Those people move A LOT of packages.

  I mean, it should be obvious, they're a shipping company. But I had
no idea of the true scale we're talking about until I saw those
hundreds of trucks pulling out one morning.

  5% of that is ONE HUGE PILE of stuff.

      -Dave McGuire
Received on Fri Nov 17 2000 - 10:44:54 GMT