CNBC Airing "Package Wars" tonight at 9 pm est

[brownmonster]

I ran my route in perfect order yesterday due to the technology shown on the show. Then I went 20 miles each way to pick up another drivers air because apparently the technology wasn't used to dispatch that area. So much more to the business then a 1/2 hour show can portray.

 

[Returntosender]

The real question is does your HUB run like how the hub on CNBC. Everything was clean and neat. Belts not flooded, no damage package/irregs on the belts, no p/t sups screaming, no managers hiding in corners looking at the operation.

 

[Pacman]

There are many ways to make one part of the organization look as if it is doing well. Supply Chain Solutions has been the darling of some influential people with in the company and thus used cannibalistic approaches to show SCS doing well. Example, computer equipment in Taiwan small package yielding more revenue diverted to SCS to help improve the numbers but reducing our overall profit from the account. This was not an isolated incident but a standard practice to make SCS appear more robust. The lack of vision within that part of the company and the utter disregard for a systemic approach to their business was appalling. Under the SCS umbrella fell several ill conceived purchases of lackluster companies which became even more of a draw on profitability and progress.

 

[Johney]

All I'll say is i wasn't impressed with that segment at all. Like someone else said it seemed more devoted to the tech side of things and not the "REAL UPS".

 

[cachsux]

Pre-package hype.

 

[barnyard]

I was very disappointed. Not a complete waste of time, but close.

Basically, CNBC strung together the PR pieces put together by UPS and FedEx. There was absolutely no new content.

I was thinking/hoping we were going to see some inside looks at how each company competes with the other.

 

[dilligaf]

​LOL Barnyard. I watched it too and it felt to me that it was a pump for Fedex.

 

[barnyard]

I did not think it showed either company in an unfavorable light as the UPS pieces were done by our PR department and the Fedex pieces were done by their PR department.

The CNBC commentator should have started the program with, "more along folks, there is nothing to see here."

I was hoping/expecting to see something along the lines of the Best Buy show. Something where critics of both companies had a voice and each company would be able to show how they are or are not responding to those critics. The Best Buy show actually had more original UPS content than the 'package wars' show had.

 

[Catatonic]

All I'll say is i wasn't impressed with that segment at all. Like someone else said it seemed more devoted to the tech side of things and not the "REAL UPS".

I realize this site has a preponderance of "package handlers" on it but there are many "REAL UPSs" out there.

It takes all the "REAL UPSs" to make UPS successful.

 

[toonertoo]

I did not watch it. Actually I made sure that it could not be watched.
I help make UPS successful by my hard work, and showing up when I should. The rest I am sure was "Clarksville"

 

[brownmonster]

Put all the technology you want in the UPS life, you can't move a package with a tie on !!! Eventually, you have to respect us !

Drivers in the early days wore bow ties.

 

[moreluck]

I think you all should go to bow ties again..................be unique!

 

[grgrcr88]

I think you all should go to bow ties again..................be unique!

Those look more like a bikini I wish Menotyou was wearing than a bowtie!!!