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<blockquote data-quote="beentheredonethat" data-source="post: 1236734" data-attributes="member: 4886"><p>Hoax, </p><p></p><p>1. We've been losing market share for years now, (decades) to FDX ground and Smartpost and now there are a lot of smaller companies like Velocity express.</p><p>2. Of course we make more revenue in December, we have more volume then. </p><p>3. We go overboard on many things. Back a few decades ago when there really wasn't competition to speak of, it made sense not to build until necessary. Now we leave ourselves vulnerable to customers not seeing us as the better service. </p><p>4. I get we can be MORE profitable by being lean and mean. However, when you impact service (1.5 MIllion pkg backlog in Dallas TX area alone, hundreds and hundreds of trailers not processed in the west etc, it will impact shippers decision of who to stay with the rest of the year. </p><p>5. Our saving grace has been that FDX and USPS is screwed up too. What if they get a lot better during peak. (FDX is my bigger fear since they have been building like crazy). But the USPS has the density of stops and they should kick our ass. It's their inefficient hub network and bad mgmt team as well as govt unions (postal workers) that cause their problems. (My dad was a mailman decades ago for 35 years). He told me tons of stories about how bad the mail system was set up. I didn't fully understand it at the time, but after working on UPS it amazed me the stories he told of how inefficient they were.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="beentheredonethat, post: 1236734, member: 4886"] Hoax, 1. We've been losing market share for years now, (decades) to FDX ground and Smartpost and now there are a lot of smaller companies like Velocity express. 2. Of course we make more revenue in December, we have more volume then. 3. We go overboard on many things. Back a few decades ago when there really wasn't competition to speak of, it made sense not to build until necessary. Now we leave ourselves vulnerable to customers not seeing us as the better service. 4. I get we can be MORE profitable by being lean and mean. However, when you impact service (1.5 MIllion pkg backlog in Dallas TX area alone, hundreds and hundreds of trailers not processed in the west etc, it will impact shippers decision of who to stay with the rest of the year. 5. Our saving grace has been that FDX and USPS is screwed up too. What if they get a lot better during peak. (FDX is my bigger fear since they have been building like crazy). But the USPS has the density of stops and they should kick our ass. It's their inefficient hub network and bad mgmt team as well as govt unions (postal workers) that cause their problems. (My dad was a mailman decades ago for 35 years). He told me tons of stories about how bad the mail system was set up. I didn't fully understand it at the time, but after working on UPS it amazed me the stories he told of how inefficient they were. [/QUOTE]
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