Thank god for Cabellas...
failers
It was ground and air. 5000 pieces a week. FedEx might be a little cheaper, but that won't last long. DId you read the article in the convoy dispatch about them losing their appeal of the desicion to classify all of their employees as employees and not contractors. They had to have it done by April of this year. They already have one terminal up in Jersey that have voted in the union.
The Article said that they made roughly 1.4 billion in profit, but their pretax hit from the government to make up for the BS they had been pulling with their ground employees could cost them around 1.4 billion.
I'd hate to have to write that check.
You talk about losing accounts and then believe they will come back. Get to the root of the issue...why are we loosing them in the first place. It is not always about money, people will gladly pay more for a product as long as it is worth it.
Lets be concerned with service and then we do not have to fear losing business and wait for it to come back...if it ever does.
Don't think the purple people are doing worse than us, they continue to grow their ground business and their revenue...it's all packages we used to have, that haven't come back.
One more thing, I really do not like fedex but I have to say that they have done a great job in the ltl freight arena. They just bought watkins and I think that they will be buying more of these types of businesses. Personally they are going more in that direction because of stiff competioion from us retaining our volume. I hope ups will start to grow in this area. I dont know why they wont buy tnt. This would give them a atart in the mail market and be number one in logistic worldwide.