I deliver about 35 a week to the post office. I think this is our work and we should fight to keep it. If we did have these stops to deliver I'm pretty sure we could have 2 or 3 more ft del jobs in our building. Contract is clear on sub contracting. Has anyone heard anything on the arbitration case?
There are some companies that don't want to pay for all the frills of UPS service, (ie automatically insured for up to 100, 3 delv attempts etc. ) Fedex offers a version of Basic that gets the final leg delivered to the post office also. UPS doesn't offer Basic because it's a high margin package (it isn't). They are offering it to get the customer to use us for all facets of their delveries. Some companies don't want to deal with multiple carriers. If UPS were forced to have Basic pkgs delivered by only UPS drivers to the final delivery, we would lose money on those packages, and we'd stop having the service. If that happens, then the work those pkgs provide, (feeder, preload, local sort, and some pkg delivery would go away). I'm not saying every Basic pkg would be lost, but a lot would. So you have to ask yourself, do you want 80% of the work done by Teamsters with the other 20% delivered by the USPS (which is also union I believe). Or do you want the 80% to be done by Fedex or other non union companies. You may very well win the battle, but if you win enough of these battles we'll all end up being the loser to the likes of Fedex.