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September 17

How do Fedex or UPS deal with geographically inconvenient senders and recipients?

If someone contracts a door-to-door package remittance service (Fedex or UPS) for the smallest possible package, and the sender and recipient are some miles away from the nearest village, would they still go on and still provide the service at a loss? Llaanngg (talk) 11:43, 17 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

They do have surcharges for remote delivery areas and remote pick-up areas. See the links to these pages at FedEx and UPS. ---Sluzzelin talk 11:57, 17 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Given your use of "miles", I suppose that you're talking from a US perspective. Note that there's a significant difference between the two: Fedx doesn't have any US areas with remote-location surcharges, while UPS has nearly eight thousand. Nyttend (talk) 13:08, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

While there aren't any surcharges, the calculated rate for Fedex varies based on location. older ≠ wiser 14:00, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Largest fish market in the UK

Our article on Billingsgate Fish Market describes it as "the United Kingdom's largest inland fish market" while its website says that it is "UK's largest wholesale fish market" (see here).

Is there a fish market in the UK that is larger than Billingsgate? Neutrality^talk 20:02, 17 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I found this:http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/take-look-inside-uks-biggest-10489835 Uncle dan is home (talk) 23:09, 17 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, that also claims to be the largest inland fish market in the UK. Is there some larger fish market that's coastal? Neutrality^talk 15:33, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Peterhead is far and away the largest fishing port in the UK in terms of catch landed at 159,300 tonnes, followed by Lerwick (48,700 t) and Fraserburgh (26,400 t) - see UK Fishery Statistics 2014 (p. 78) - so we should probably be looking north of the border. Alansplodge (talk) 22:40, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Billingsgate claims "An average of 25,000 tonnes of fish and fish products are sold through its merchants each year". [1] Presumably the great majority of of fish landed at Peterhead passes through its own market [2], which is six times the volume claimed by Billingsgate. Alansplodge (talk) 22:52, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

What is meant by "largest"? Highest tonnage, highest value of sales, greatest physical area, number of vendors? DuncanHill (talk) 22:53, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Jainism not spreading outside of India

Why didn't Jainism ever spread outside of India, unlike Buddhism which spread across throughout Asia, and Hinduism which spread to Southeast Asia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uncle dan is home (talk • contribs) 23:42, 17 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Take a look at Jainism in Southeast Asia. Basemetal 00:38, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]