chargerlou
Well-Known Member
I'm work a downtown route today I have only 34 SO's guess the end is near..
Our volume has been steadily declining for a while now. Sorts been going down 20-30 earlier as well.I'm talking our entire station volume.
Sort went down about 20 minutes earlier than usual.
See, that's odd. My station seems to be getting busier and busier, sort down around 0815-0825 with an 0625 start nearly every day. They keep saying our volume is down but we sure don't see it...that and too many couriers and not enough trucks.
Thx for all the posts they made me late starter so I come in at 825 I get no info from managers. They sent out a message today that we had to have 2 Leads turned in tomorrow..The writing is on the wall they are hiding something..
we had a "sales" meeting with 3 regional sales people last week, and they openly stated that they "SELL" ground first, and Express is kinda an as needed basis.
That's because that is the market, they'd sell the **** out of Express if they knew they could go into a company and tell them to sign on the dotted line.
Wrong.
No that is right. Go find a customer that has express packages that needs a carrier and bring in your Sales Rep and they'll do business. No reason to make a non-debatable issues, debatable. You are saying an Operating Company in Fedex doesn't want business for itself. That makes no sense. None.
What FedEx sales WON'T do, is ask that customer what terms they are receiving from UPS for their overnight shipping, then come in with a quote 5-10% lower. They simply WON'T do that.
No one is arguing that. What some have said here in the past couple days is.
Fedex isn't selling Express.
Fedex won't discount Express.
Alluding that they won't sell Express but push them to ground.
All the above is incorrect. However you are correct that Fedex has price points, now like any company and this does swing, companies at different times get hungry for new business, buyers know this and could Fedex Express be coming into another period like that? Perhaps, perhaps not.