You keeping talking conspiracies. I'm talking about the obvious that Ground is more profitable than Express(don't know why you brought up Ground is cheaper, duh). Tell me something, if you were a veteran Express courier, and saw over and over again for years the company taking away various benefits while racking up good profits, especially terminating the traditional pension, wouldn't you be skeptical of anything said to you by them? You really don't know what it's been like so stop with the patronizing. The idea that FedEx wouldn't emphasize Ground's ability to get it there for less to customers is pretty far-fetched. Everything they do is to maximize profit so to say that they just present a menu of options to a customer and hope he picks the one that will make them the most money is silly. They can't make customers pick Ground, but come on, in their presentation they are emphasizing that Ground can get it done for less. And everything FedEx has been doing since they first put Ground on the road is to get to the point where they can start raking in the profits in a big way that'll make Wall Street happy.
The shipper doesn't care which service is most profitable to Fedex. They look at them as services and how it fits them. They will take the best price that gets the job done. That is the argument that some here think Fedex is pushing Sales to push ground on customers, if this argument is not yours then do worry about it. I am telling anyone reading here though that we are using ground when it makes sense and more and more it does because of advanced logistics, I can get more packages today to more customers in a single day, which was only at one time possible with Express shipping. Stop patronizing me as a shipper, I know what I and many other shippers paying all your bills want and how it's being presented to us by your sales team. It is my choice, they deliver me rates and follow up loose ends.
Stop with the "my company is selling out Express" your company is selling each and every service the offer. What we choose is what the trend is.
I do separate this from things like pensions, working conditions, which I know can be upsetting, but not at all part of my point. You can be mad, but just being mad doesn't make all theories correct. The cold reality is people more and more are choosing economical ground vs expensive air.