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<blockquote data-quote="Returntosender" data-source="post: 1507280" data-attributes="member: 29240"><p>The issue demonstrates the increasing complexity of predicting demand spikes due to the expansion of e-commerce. For example, last year, consumers and retailers were left disappointed as UPS' operations were hit by severe winter weather and <a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/10/06/why-ups-has-massively-underperformed-fedex-and-the.aspx" target="_blank">unexpected surges in peak demand from e-commerce.</a> This year, UPS overinvested and shareholders are now paying the price.</p><p>Unfortunately, the bad news doesn't stop there. Management also estimated that currency headwinds and increased pension expenses would lead to 2015 diluted EPS coming in at "slightly less" than its target of 9%-13%.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/01/23/why-united-parcel-service-stock-crashed-today.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/01/23/why-united-parcel-service-stock-crashed-today.aspx</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Returntosender, post: 1507280, member: 29240"] The issue demonstrates the increasing complexity of predicting demand spikes due to the expansion of e-commerce. For example, last year, consumers and retailers were left disappointed as UPS' operations were hit by severe winter weather and [URL='http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/10/06/why-ups-has-massively-underperformed-fedex-and-the.aspx']unexpected surges in peak demand from e-commerce.[/URL] This year, UPS overinvested and shareholders are now paying the price. Unfortunately, the bad news doesn't stop there. Management also estimated that currency headwinds and increased pension expenses would lead to 2015 diluted EPS coming in at "slightly less" than its target of 9%-13%. [url]http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/01/23/why-united-parcel-service-stock-crashed-today.aspx[/url] [/QUOTE]
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