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<blockquote data-quote="RPSman" data-source="post: 3729774" data-attributes="member: 51437"><p>They may have, but I'm glad that UPS hasn't struck yet. And yes, the boys in Louisville are threatening to. I would like to see these reject FEG contractor drivers do like we did in 1997, and take on the challenge of keeping our good customers happy. Their carpetbagger "CSP bosses" will cry, piss their pants and run out the terminal doors if they get slammed like we did. We had one contractor when we started in 1994 who had tried to get all of the original 5 terminal routes ala "carpetbagger style", he ended up with a route that he couldn't do, and lost it for bad service. If a closeby metropolitan area is only running 4 USPS Grumman Olson regular route vans to take care of 160 Amazon deliveries on a Sunday, then tell me where the packages to fill up 40 Sprinter vans is going to come from. When they start having to replace a set of 4 tires every 10,000 miles, like a lot of Fed Ex Home Delivery vans had to do when they started in 2000, and bear the cost of maintaining those Sprinters (I used one while working for a bakery in 2006) when the dash lights up like a Christmas tree all the time, the profits are going to go down in a hurry. And where are they going to get the drivers? Even now, I see FEG contractor drivers that we wouldn't have hired for temp drivers at RPS. Instead of trying to build from the ground up, Amazon should contract with the regional parcel carriers that cover a good percentage of the USA, and continue subcontracting rural deliveries to the USPS. If not their delivery company will go the way of Emery, Pony Express Couriers and a few others.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RPSman, post: 3729774, member: 51437"] They may have, but I'm glad that UPS hasn't struck yet. And yes, the boys in Louisville are threatening to. I would like to see these reject FEG contractor drivers do like we did in 1997, and take on the challenge of keeping our good customers happy. Their carpetbagger "CSP bosses" will cry, piss their pants and run out the terminal doors if they get slammed like we did. We had one contractor when we started in 1994 who had tried to get all of the original 5 terminal routes ala "carpetbagger style", he ended up with a route that he couldn't do, and lost it for bad service. If a closeby metropolitan area is only running 4 USPS Grumman Olson regular route vans to take care of 160 Amazon deliveries on a Sunday, then tell me where the packages to fill up 40 Sprinter vans is going to come from. When they start having to replace a set of 4 tires every 10,000 miles, like a lot of Fed Ex Home Delivery vans had to do when they started in 2000, and bear the cost of maintaining those Sprinters (I used one while working for a bakery in 2006) when the dash lights up like a Christmas tree all the time, the profits are going to go down in a hurry. And where are they going to get the drivers? Even now, I see FEG contractor drivers that we wouldn't have hired for temp drivers at RPS. Instead of trying to build from the ground up, Amazon should contract with the regional parcel carriers that cover a good percentage of the USA, and continue subcontracting rural deliveries to the USPS. If not their delivery company will go the way of Emery, Pony Express Couriers and a few others. [/QUOTE]
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