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<blockquote data-quote="TUT" data-source="post: 1076809" data-attributes="member: 29298"><p>You are right it's not dead, you see the pkgs every day and the overall gross #'s still show demand (growing<>demand) and Express is still the strong majority of revenue for the entire company. Is it possible that through your restructure, that it is an attempt to make Express more profitable so Fred doesn't have this daunting decision of which child he likes best, so he can relaxingly let packages enter the service of the shippers choice and be happy?</p><p></p><p>As for the gift... First I am for unions as they set a rate for nearly everyone else, break them down and you have lowering wages, which owners sort of get excited about, but it's double bladed, it destroys economies imo. But I think leaving pixie dust out of it, UPS is the way it is because it grew up in a different era, if UPS were to start today, they wouldn't be union either. RPS couldn't afford to compete with UPS straight up, they didn't have the money to. So when they did, one of their business models choices was to save by making drivers contractors, another thing was to beat UPS costs a bit by only being a commercial to commercial ground business, the most dense and most profitable. Fred had nothing to do with it, he didn't exist in the picture yet. Now we also can look at all the regionals, is anyone union? Is anyone an employee? Or are they contracted out? I know the majority of the one's I know of are contractors as well. So it's not just Ground and the gift, other companies are taking advantage of the game here as well. </p><p></p><p>Sort of like, how many Customer Service people are no longer Americans and/or no longer true employees of the companies they support. There are people doing a needed job like you. I'm not fan of this either, but the rules allow it and it's not singular to just Fedex. The issue is UPS cannot do it without going on a years long perhaps years... long strike, they'd lose so much. UPS was born in a different era, you could say they are "grandfathered in", the rest of the small pkg carriers are much more in tune with the "New World Order" tm.</p><p></p><p>An interesting long term question for Fedex is, "Are they moving toward every driver being a contractor and then combining both then into one pickup and delivery unit like UPS?". Business wise that can add up. But who's knows... it would be a wild guess.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TUT, post: 1076809, member: 29298"] You are right it's not dead, you see the pkgs every day and the overall gross #'s still show demand (growing<>demand) and Express is still the strong majority of revenue for the entire company. Is it possible that through your restructure, that it is an attempt to make Express more profitable so Fred doesn't have this daunting decision of which child he likes best, so he can relaxingly let packages enter the service of the shippers choice and be happy? As for the gift... First I am for unions as they set a rate for nearly everyone else, break them down and you have lowering wages, which owners sort of get excited about, but it's double bladed, it destroys economies imo. But I think leaving pixie dust out of it, UPS is the way it is because it grew up in a different era, if UPS were to start today, they wouldn't be union either. RPS couldn't afford to compete with UPS straight up, they didn't have the money to. So when they did, one of their business models choices was to save by making drivers contractors, another thing was to beat UPS costs a bit by only being a commercial to commercial ground business, the most dense and most profitable. Fred had nothing to do with it, he didn't exist in the picture yet. Now we also can look at all the regionals, is anyone union? Is anyone an employee? Or are they contracted out? I know the majority of the one's I know of are contractors as well. So it's not just Ground and the gift, other companies are taking advantage of the game here as well. Sort of like, how many Customer Service people are no longer Americans and/or no longer true employees of the companies they support. There are people doing a needed job like you. I'm not fan of this either, but the rules allow it and it's not singular to just Fedex. The issue is UPS cannot do it without going on a years long perhaps years... long strike, they'd lose so much. UPS was born in a different era, you could say they are "grandfathered in", the rest of the small pkg carriers are much more in tune with the "New World Order" tm. An interesting long term question for Fedex is, "Are they moving toward every driver being a contractor and then combining both then into one pickup and delivery unit like UPS?". Business wise that can add up. But who's knows... it would be a wild guess. [/QUOTE]
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