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  • If they lose 1/100th of a percent, then their reliabiliity rate is 4 sigma: .9999, which is pretty damn good.

    If the did manage to improve tenfold and reach 5 sigma, or one lost package per hundred thousand packages, that would be truly amazing. It's hard to imagine UPS doing much better than that.

    But they'd still lose or misplace 130 packages a day, one of which could be yours, which still wouldn't make you feel any better.

    For example, at Pearson Int'l Airport in Toronto, they lose, misplace or delay

    • For example, at Pearson Int'l Airport in Toronto, they lose, misplace or delay about 300% of the luggage that moves through the airport.
      I presume that's hyperbole, because to actually accomplish that, they'd need to lose the luggage of two other nearby airports as well. Entirely.

      Hard to imagine that.

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      • Randal L. Schwartz
      • Stonehenge
      • No, that statistic is entirely correct. They lose a lot of luggage at Pearson. They built the airport on top of a singularity or something.
        • > No, that statistic is entirely correct.

          Somebody is pulling 7600% leg here. They cannot lose more than 100%. Period.
          • Three separate things: lose, misplace, delay. If they lose, misplace, AND delay each piece of luggage, then it can be 300%!
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