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<blockquote data-quote="dannyboy" data-source="post: 565705" data-attributes="member: 484"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">At 2 a.m. in Memphis, where FedEx is headquartered, the airport is humming as FedEx sorts and dispatches many of the 3.4 million packages -- 10 million pounds of freight -- it ships daily, mostly with its fleet of 654 aircraft. Eighty-five percent of FedEx packages go by air; 85 percent of UPS's go only by truck. This matters because: </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In 1936, airlines were brought under the RLA. FedEx, which began as an air freight company and created the modern express business, is precisely the sort of integrated system for which the RLA was written. This matters: 53 percent of all U.S. exports by value travel by air, and virtually all priority and express U.S. mail is carried by FedEx. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In 1981, UPS began air services, and in the 1990s it tried, legislatively and judicially, to be put under the RLA. In 1993 UPS said all of its operations, "including ground operations," are properly subject to the RLA "because the ground operations are part of the air service." FedEx <strong><em><u>supported</u></em></strong>UPS's efforts, even though the vast majority of UPS parcels never go on an airplane, whereas FedEx's trucking operations exist to feed its air fleet and distribute what it carries. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/15/AR2009071502498.html" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/15/AR2009071502498.html</a></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The preceding excerpts are from the Smith public relations machine. And I am sure Mr Will got nothing in return for his support of this advertisement that is supposed to be passed off as an OP ED piece.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I do find it interesting that "This matters: 53 percent of all U.S. exports by value travel by air, and virtually all priority and express U.S. mail is carried by FedEx." and the "FedEx <strong><em><u>supported</u></em></strong>UPS's efforts" to fall under the RLA. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Nothing like mouthpieces to write propaganda for you.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Smith is in the corner, and he knows it. And like the nice guy he is, he is willing to do anything to keep the situation like it is.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">d</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dannyboy, post: 565705, member: 484"] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Times New Roman]At 2 a.m. in Memphis, where FedEx is headquartered, the airport is humming as FedEx sorts and dispatches many of the 3.4 million packages -- 10 million pounds of freight -- it ships daily, mostly with its fleet of 654 aircraft. Eighty-five percent of FedEx packages go by air; 85 percent of UPS's go only by truck. This matters because: [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Times New Roman]In 1936, airlines were brought under the RLA. FedEx, which began as an air freight company and created the modern express business, is precisely the sort of integrated system for which the RLA was written. This matters: 53 percent of all U.S. exports by value travel by air, and virtually all priority and express U.S. mail is carried by FedEx. [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Times New Roman]In 1981, UPS began air services, and in the 1990s it tried, legislatively and judicially, to be put under the RLA. In 1993 UPS said all of its operations, "including ground operations," are properly subject to the RLA "because the ground operations are part of the air service." FedEx [B][I][U]supported[/U][/I][/B]UPS's efforts, even though the vast majority of UPS parcels never go on an airplane, whereas FedEx's trucking operations exist to feed its air fleet and distribute what it carries. [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][URL]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/15/AR2009071502498.html[/URL][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]The preceding excerpts are from the Smith public relations machine. And I am sure Mr Will got nothing in return for his support of this advertisement that is supposed to be passed off as an OP ED piece.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]I do find it interesting that "This matters: 53 percent of all U.S. exports by value travel by air, and virtually all priority and express U.S. mail is carried by FedEx." and the "FedEx [B][I][U]supported[/U][/I][/B]UPS's efforts" to fall under the RLA. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Nothing like mouthpieces to write propaganda for you.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Smith is in the corner, and he knows it. And like the nice guy he is, he is willing to do anything to keep the situation like it is.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]d[/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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