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<blockquote data-quote="oldrps" data-source="post: 2359477" data-attributes="member: 36765"><p>There will be a day when the operations merge, when it will happen is anyone's guess. Someday Fred will retire and the replacement will probably make that call. Wall Street will put pressure on FedEx someday to eliminate the two networks to save money. I feel they will go with the contractor model as it offers the best anti-union solution and lowest cost. </p><p></p><p>The biggest reason why much hasn't changed is that it is probably <u>many</u> years away from happening. It has been over 17 years since they bought RPS and not a word of merging. The only difference is that Ground is now much larger and Express is not growing. When I worked at RPS 17 years ago, we said the contractor model could not grow any larger, they will never find enough drivers. That didn't happen, not saying that it still couldn't happen.</p><p></p><p>I know from reading these boards that Express drivers don't think that a Ground driver can do what they do, but I feel you are wrong. You are looking at your current route going there is no way that a Ground driver can do this. You are right, they couldn't deliver what you have on your van at this time, it is ALL Express. When you combine all the packages, the amount of Express volume vs Ground volume should be small and they will deliver the morning commitments first, then do straight-line deliveries. About 2 - 2:30, line up their remaining deliveries by the later commitment times. I am going to guess that a UPS driver does this daily. </p><p></p><p>Why they are changing the colors? Probably just bored people in a meeting in Memphis trying to justify their jobs or it may be step 1 of a 20,000 step process to merge the divisions. Time will tell. You will know the merge process is starting when they start installing Haz-Mat placards on all the Ground trailers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="oldrps, post: 2359477, member: 36765"] There will be a day when the operations merge, when it will happen is anyone's guess. Someday Fred will retire and the replacement will probably make that call. Wall Street will put pressure on FedEx someday to eliminate the two networks to save money. I feel they will go with the contractor model as it offers the best anti-union solution and lowest cost. The biggest reason why much hasn't changed is that it is probably [U]many[/U] years away from happening. It has been over 17 years since they bought RPS and not a word of merging. The only difference is that Ground is now much larger and Express is not growing. When I worked at RPS 17 years ago, we said the contractor model could not grow any larger, they will never find enough drivers. That didn't happen, not saying that it still couldn't happen. I know from reading these boards that Express drivers don't think that a Ground driver can do what they do, but I feel you are wrong. You are looking at your current route going there is no way that a Ground driver can do this. You are right, they couldn't deliver what you have on your van at this time, it is ALL Express. When you combine all the packages, the amount of Express volume vs Ground volume should be small and they will deliver the morning commitments first, then do straight-line deliveries. About 2 - 2:30, line up their remaining deliveries by the later commitment times. I am going to guess that a UPS driver does this daily. Why they are changing the colors? Probably just bored people in a meeting in Memphis trying to justify their jobs or it may be step 1 of a 20,000 step process to merge the divisions. Time will tell. You will know the merge process is starting when they start installing Haz-Mat placards on all the Ground trailers. [/QUOTE]
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