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<blockquote data-quote="Treegrower" data-source="post: 945120" data-attributes="member: 11614"><p>The last time I heard that we had zero profit on ground was in the mid to late 90's. We had many meetings PCM's) about it and the district and region would bring in their big dogs from time to time to hand around the turn in areas and preach to us about how we lost money on every ground package and that we really needed to focus on our core business area which was business to business delivery. They would tell us over and over how our wage and benefit level mades residential delivery a loser and how we could no longer profitably do it. And they never failed to trot out the old Railway Express story about how REA had their most profitable year ever the year before it all collapsed and they went out of business.They told us they we going to get out of the residential market. Shortly afterwards there was a huge price increase in residential rates and they implemented 'Rual Remote." You remember that dog? Well after about a year or so of that abject failure they scraped that plan and cried about all the lost residential volume and put it on us drivers to get it all back. UPS went hard after JC Penney and Sears and all the other home shoppers and (back then) catalog shoppers. I guess the long and short of it is that I have been hearing about zero profit on ground for a solid 15 years or more now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Treegrower, post: 945120, member: 11614"] The last time I heard that we had zero profit on ground was in the mid to late 90's. We had many meetings PCM's) about it and the district and region would bring in their big dogs from time to time to hand around the turn in areas and preach to us about how we lost money on every ground package and that we really needed to focus on our core business area which was business to business delivery. They would tell us over and over how our wage and benefit level mades residential delivery a loser and how we could no longer profitably do it. And they never failed to trot out the old Railway Express story about how REA had their most profitable year ever the year before it all collapsed and they went out of business.They told us they we going to get out of the residential market. Shortly afterwards there was a huge price increase in residential rates and they implemented 'Rual Remote." You remember that dog? Well after about a year or so of that abject failure they scraped that plan and cried about all the lost residential volume and put it on us drivers to get it all back. UPS went hard after JC Penney and Sears and all the other home shoppers and (back then) catalog shoppers. I guess the long and short of it is that I have been hearing about zero profit on ground for a solid 15 years or more now. [/QUOTE]
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