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<blockquote data-quote="Ricochet1a" data-source="post: 1175110" data-attributes="member: 22880"><p>Back in 2009-10, everyone thought that the old maxim of, "If you are going to make a cut, make it QUICK and get the pain over", applied to the shifting of volume. </p><p></p><p>Standard business practice when a 'change' is to be made in a company, it to make it quick, get the uncertainty over and then pull those who are left together and state something to the effect, "We (the company) have made all the changes we have in mind. All of you that are left are secure and are NOT subject to being put out of work. Let's put this all behind us and do our work and make 'our company' profitable so we never have to go through something like this again". </p><p></p><p>What we didn't figure, is the angle of the Couriers getting angry about losing income and doing something about it (organizing). Fred obviously had this mind....</p><p></p><p><em>Fred was and is a smart devil, he figured right that he had to make all the changes GRADUAL, and not quickly, unless he create 'undue alarm' among BOTH the wage employees and lower level salaried employees. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p>The shift is ALREADY taking place - the customers are doing a significant amount of it themselves when they use their mouse to click on a particular shipping option. Then when combined with the holding back of volume which arrives in stations prior to commit date - customers aren't getting de facto service upgrades for free. More and more deferred Express volume is finding itself in Ground already (where the margins are higher too...)</p><p></p><p>The engineer I correspond with openly admits, that if non-overnight volume were to be taken out of the delivery matrix (and all he had to deal with was strictly overnight), DRA would work like a 'champ'. He is left wondering when delivery will be shifted over to Ground. He is putting an inordinate amount of time into trying to optimize a system - which given all indications - won't be utilized once Express feels confident enough to shift delivery of non-overnight over to Ground and face the wrath of the remaining full-time Couriers. </p><p></p><p>So the 'real indicator' may end up being when enough of the mid to upper progression Couriers have left Express, for FedEx to feel comfortable enough in making the switch and not have to worry about the remaining Couriers organizing themselves in response. It is the THREAT of organization which is most likely causing the retention of delivery of non-overnight within Express. Once that threat subsides sufficiently, they'll most likely feel confident in pulling the trigger and completing the reorganization of Express. </p><p></p><p></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ricochet1a, post: 1175110, member: 22880"] Back in 2009-10, everyone thought that the old maxim of, "If you are going to make a cut, make it QUICK and get the pain over", applied to the shifting of volume. Standard business practice when a 'change' is to be made in a company, it to make it quick, get the uncertainty over and then pull those who are left together and state something to the effect, "We (the company) have made all the changes we have in mind. All of you that are left are secure and are NOT subject to being put out of work. Let's put this all behind us and do our work and make 'our company' profitable so we never have to go through something like this again". What we didn't figure, is the angle of the Couriers getting angry about losing income and doing something about it (organizing). Fred obviously had this mind.... [I]Fred was and is a smart devil, he figured right that he had to make all the changes GRADUAL, and not quickly, unless he create 'undue alarm' among BOTH the wage employees and lower level salaried employees. [/I] The shift is ALREADY taking place - the customers are doing a significant amount of it themselves when they use their mouse to click on a particular shipping option. Then when combined with the holding back of volume which arrives in stations prior to commit date - customers aren't getting de facto service upgrades for free. More and more deferred Express volume is finding itself in Ground already (where the margins are higher too...) The engineer I correspond with openly admits, that if non-overnight volume were to be taken out of the delivery matrix (and all he had to deal with was strictly overnight), DRA would work like a 'champ'. He is left wondering when delivery will be shifted over to Ground. He is putting an inordinate amount of time into trying to optimize a system - which given all indications - won't be utilized once Express feels confident enough to shift delivery of non-overnight over to Ground and face the wrath of the remaining full-time Couriers. So the 'real indicator' may end up being when enough of the mid to upper progression Couriers have left Express, for FedEx to feel comfortable enough in making the switch and not have to worry about the remaining Couriers organizing themselves in response. It is the THREAT of organization which is most likely causing the retention of delivery of non-overnight within Express. Once that threat subsides sufficiently, they'll most likely feel confident in pulling the trigger and completing the reorganization of Express. [/QUOTE]
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