This idea has been floated before. Considering Amazons lack of profit generation, what makes you think they could buy UPS?
Have anyone heard that Amazon is disgruntled about UPS?
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Catatonic
Nine Lives
The 10 - 1 ratio of Class A to Class B was put in place to prohibit a hostile take over or buyout.
So regardless of how much money a company has, they cannot buy UPS.
upschuck
Well-Known Member
Back to the original statement, I read Amazon message boards, and most people seem to want UPS and to a lesser extent FedEx to deliver there packages, and not the lower priced regional companies. So if they discontinued using UPS, I'm sure there would be some backlash against Amazon, and they surely don't like Surepost or FedEx's version either.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Ups profit 5 billion a year. Amazon profit barely pennies on the dollar compared to that. It would take billions upon billions to buy ups. Not sure amazon has that type of money. Ups isn't selling anyway.
fiddledee
Well-Known Member
Trollish in touch taste and smell
fiddledee
Well-Known Member
Regardless your hate for UPS you have to conceed that ups does know how to make money, a quality missing from Amazon.
I have been working for UPS for almost 7 years.
rod
Retired 22 years
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I would disagree. Most people don't give a darn who delivers their package just as long as it is on time and in good shape
I would disagree. Most people don't give a darn who delivers their package just as long as it is on time and in good shape
upschuck
Well-Known Member
That is the caveat, on time and in good shape.
Have you read the Amazon message boards? There are a lot more disgruntled customers from the lower priced carriers, than with UPS/FedEx, and we probably carry most the packages. We may have trouble during peak, they have trouble year around. Most people want us to deliver their packages.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Well that and the shorts. Ladies love the shorts.
oldstagg
Active Member
Are you worried you may lose the job you have not been hired for?
raceanoncr
Well-Known Member
My retort to the original thread title:
"Who ISN'T disgruntled with UPS?"
"Who ISN'T disgruntled with UPS?"
Catatonic
Nine Lives
Does "The Dragon" live in a "Bubble of Goodness"?
Catatonic
Nine Lives
I'm not sure "retorts" are allowed on Brown Cafe.
Are you sure it wasn't simply a snarky reply?
Bagels
Family Leave Fridays!!!
UPS is a very large company and thus experiences may differ. In my facility last week, both the Preload and Local Sort failed to finish (twice each) and oodles of drivers timed out & brought back hundreds of stops. You can defend your peers all you'd like, but you're merely B.S.ing yourself. This week, with much better planning, everything finished on time -- although we're plagued with the problem of contract drivers arriving in the late morning/early afternoon.
Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
Oh, please.
BMWMC
B.C. boohoo buster.
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/financials/secfilings.asp?ticker=AMZN
Amazon has over 5 billion in cash and its stock is worth over 83 billion and as of 2012 over 51 billion in sales. That's a lot of fictional value.
Amazon could easily leverage its own asset, get financing, and sell shares of the newly combined company to raise the dough. As I said before its a company (UPS) that Amazon knows very little about. Its one thing to put something in a box and ship it out the back its another to run a 24/7/365 transportation company.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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UPS is much more than just a transportation company.
