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Comparison: Last, Best & Final to Pre-strike proposals
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<blockquote data-quote="104Feeder" data-source="post: 1027034" data-attributes="member: 42554"><p><span style="color: #0000ff"></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Seems to me that if we have lost so much market share, 30% I believe you alleged, that we have a lot of room to make up on volume. I think we've lost a lot of the market by ignoring the little guys: garage businesses and eBay shippers for example. Those little fish grow up to be big fish sometimes, and they remember who helped them out in the early days. Companies like Southwest seem to do just fine refusing to go along with price increases & making it up on volume. They don't have particularly low labor costs and I can't see their fuel or equipment costs being any different as everyone flies either Boeing or Airbus. I think if just one year we said we weren't increasing rates Fedex could match that but do it two or three years and they start having trouble. Just not increasing the rate on Ground and improving our Time-in-Transit would stop the growth that FDXG is having. Their air operation is hurting so we could hold the line there and not lose money. </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">As for the savvy investors, I'll say that going public was the worst thing UPS ever did for so many reasons. I think we have enough cash to buy all that stock back and still not have to borrow if we held the line on rates for a while. My vote for a slogan would be to return to "Tightest Ship in the Shipping Business".</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="104Feeder, post: 1027034, member: 42554"] [COLOR=#0000ff] Seems to me that if we have lost so much market share, 30% I believe you alleged, that we have a lot of room to make up on volume. I think we've lost a lot of the market by ignoring the little guys: garage businesses and eBay shippers for example. Those little fish grow up to be big fish sometimes, and they remember who helped them out in the early days. Companies like Southwest seem to do just fine refusing to go along with price increases & making it up on volume. They don't have particularly low labor costs and I can't see their fuel or equipment costs being any different as everyone flies either Boeing or Airbus. I think if just one year we said we weren't increasing rates Fedex could match that but do it two or three years and they start having trouble. Just not increasing the rate on Ground and improving our Time-in-Transit would stop the growth that FDXG is having. Their air operation is hurting so we could hold the line there and not lose money. As for the savvy investors, I'll say that going public was the worst thing UPS ever did for so many reasons. I think we have enough cash to buy all that stock back and still not have to borrow if we held the line on rates for a while. My vote for a slogan would be to return to "Tightest Ship in the Shipping Business".[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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