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<blockquote data-quote="PobreCarlos" data-source="post: 625726" data-attributes="member: 16651"><p>brownie;</p><p> </p><p>The "what if" ratio between UPS/FedEx drivers wasn't meant to be considered as a "fact"; merely a "what if" supposition, and what could lead from it.</p><p> </p><p>As for efficiency, however, as a shareholder, I would be looking at financial return. And the fact is that, over the last decade, the financial return for the investor has been much greater with the FedEx model than that of UPS.</p><p> </p><p>Don't get me wrong; I'm not belittling UPS or it's Teamster employees in any way, shape, or form. Rather, I'm simply indicating that absorbing higher-than-market costs over the long term is going to make things difficult at best. And for the Teamsters to expect UPS to continue to do so forever - without any REAL effort on it's part (either by member wage reductions or, hopefully, bringing up the competition's wage scale to parity via organization - is a strategy of failure. Already UPS has heavily migrated away from the Teamsters....and, as long as FedEx (and future competitive firms like it) are left to "clear the table without obstruction", so to speak, the Teamsters (and "yes", possibly UPS) are going to be on the decline.</p><p> </p><p>Again, there's no free lunch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PobreCarlos, post: 625726, member: 16651"] brownie; The "what if" ratio between UPS/FedEx drivers wasn't meant to be considered as a "fact"; merely a "what if" supposition, and what could lead from it. As for efficiency, however, as a shareholder, I would be looking at financial return. And the fact is that, over the last decade, the financial return for the investor has been much greater with the FedEx model than that of UPS. Don't get me wrong; I'm not belittling UPS or it's Teamster employees in any way, shape, or form. Rather, I'm simply indicating that absorbing higher-than-market costs over the long term is going to make things difficult at best. And for the Teamsters to expect UPS to continue to do so forever - without any REAL effort on it's part (either by member wage reductions or, hopefully, bringing up the competition's wage scale to parity via organization - is a strategy of failure. Already UPS has heavily migrated away from the Teamsters....and, as long as FedEx (and future competitive firms like it) are left to "clear the table without obstruction", so to speak, the Teamsters (and "yes", possibly UPS) are going to be on the decline. Again, there's no free lunch. [/QUOTE]
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