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UPS can't compete because of high labor costs?
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<blockquote data-quote="Signature Only" data-source="post: 778894" data-attributes="member: 21043"><p><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Where does everyone get the idea that a formal education is required to earn more than minimum wage? How many people can set a toilet, replace a water heater, repair an AWD system or change a 220 volt circuit breaker to a 120 volt. How about running a natural gas line for a stove or dryer? How well versed are you on the UPC codes? Would you rather have grade M or K copper pipe in your house? Can you change the millivolt generator in a gas appliance? What do you think of Pex water line? Would you bury it in a slab foundation? Can you troubleshoot and repair a Bosch K fuel injection system. People who do these jobs earn a lot more that $32.00 an hour. If you can do any of these things, would you pay someone $32.00 per hour to pick up and deliver the parts you needed? Or would you rather save money sitting in the dark with no running water or heat or A/C while someone walked to the nearest supply house and somehow carried everything back on foot?</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Signature Only, post: 778894, member: 21043"] [COLOR="blue"][SIZE="4"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Where does everyone get the idea that a formal education is required to earn more than minimum wage? How many people can set a toilet, replace a water heater, repair an AWD system or change a 220 volt circuit breaker to a 120 volt. How about running a natural gas line for a stove or dryer? How well versed are you on the UPC codes? Would you rather have grade M or K copper pipe in your house? Can you change the millivolt generator in a gas appliance? What do you think of Pex water line? Would you bury it in a slab foundation? Can you troubleshoot and repair a Bosch K fuel injection system. People who do these jobs earn a lot more that $32.00 an hour. If you can do any of these things, would you pay someone $32.00 per hour to pick up and deliver the parts you needed? Or would you rather save money sitting in the dark with no running water or heat or A/C while someone walked to the nearest supply house and somehow carried everything back on foot?[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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