In the near term you Express employees should be alright. The long term outlook from a job security perspective however has no doubt been reduced from a decade or more down to a few years. Right now you're basing your job security on the belief that X cannot tailor Ground 's contractor format in a way that makes it regulatorily compliant. In the near term and the current regulatory environment it probably can't. But I wouldn't sign my name to a 30 year mortgage on the belief that they will never be able to do so.
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They don't need to make express drivers into contractors. They already have contractors covering all the areas you serve. They just need to fire you. Maybe the ground contractor servicing your old area will hire you. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
So they hire 10, or 6, and use their current drivers to deliver express packages. There is no reason to have two drivers servicing the same area all the time.
Gone fishin
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I believe that can be said for any job it seems now a days. The stock at 168 in a down economy,their making more money than ever and they just got a huge international chunk with tnt. Not to mention the e commerce boom.
I see no reason for Fred to shoot himself in the foot. He's Rollin
Fedex likes making the contractors eat costs. Duhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
You hope bro. If UPS drivers can do it all with one service, so can fedex. The express packages will still be expedited to the hubs by air, etc, but that can just as easily be a ground hub. Where I live now, the express and ground are in the same building, or connected buildings at least.
Fedex express will disappear. No part ti,e, no nothing. Ground contractors can pick up and deliver packages just as easily as express, and do it cheaper too.
Fedex could just as easily send a contracted trailer to pick up from the airport. The FAA doesn't care who picks them up. I used to go to the airport every night to pick up a truckload of newspapers flown into Kansas City.
MrFedEx
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Brilliant move.
A ground truck could pick up express packages from the terminal and take them to the airport just as easily as a current express driver.
So what's your point??? That they would refuse to turn packages over to a ground driver????????
Because ground drivers don't know where the airport is?????????
Fedex ground drivers can do everything a fedex express driver can do, including picking up from Kinkos.
I think that we can all agree that the conversion is now under way. It's just a question of how long it will take to make the complete conversion. As I said before I believe it will take 10 years at the most possibly as few a 5 years. How ,any years do you guys think it will take?
Mo' money. Eliminate express terminals, employee benefits, and fleet costs, plus a lot of the personnel, payroll, and HR would be eliminated with giving all pick-up and delivery to ground. ground. I believe that once fedex ground is ISP everywhere, and doesn't face legal challenges for that model, there will be nothing stopping them from dissolving express almost completely.
No, they work for a FedEx opco which your employees don't.
SmithBarney
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Actually have you seen the new uniforms? no colors at all just white embroidery.(or white iron ons)
SmithBarney
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Psst, FedEx doesn't give us benefits, we pay for the "discount" hah maybe 1% discount over just buying it direct from BCBS or cigna
No, Ground will just have to hire more of the kind of people who are willing to work under those conditions. The vast majority of Express employees will move on to something else. Assuming of course that pigs fly and the world ends tomorrow....
