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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 1874373" data-attributes="member: 58386"><p>Here are the facts. We began with 4 day 1 contracors. Not single Day 1 contractor took on additional routes depite having been offered them for free. Why? They are marginally profitable in depressed rural areas where the imputs are way off standard relative to the formula RPS/FXG uses to determine what they think it costs you to run the route. Why is that the case? The core zone formula is blind to RD's. They were never factored into the equation. Don't tell me this is B.S because I talked to the retired UPS engineer who was from downtown Manhatten who set up the routes but did not know of their existance. Secondly when we began to see on a daily basis just how slanted the contract language was in favor of G providing the company with value clearly disproportionate to the value we were receiving we could plainly see that taking on more routes made it even more unbalanced. Third, to give the guy driving that route what he had earned for himself and that was a family sustaining wage, an employer paid health insurane plan and something in the way of a pension there wouldn't have been enough left over to make it worthwhile to have additional routes. So we simply gave any additional routes to whoever wanted them. Needless to say the people who took those routes didn't last very long. Too much debt, too much taken out for a lifestyle the economics of the route couldn't support. Any more snide comments?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 1874373, member: 58386"] Here are the facts. We began with 4 day 1 contracors. Not single Day 1 contractor took on additional routes depite having been offered them for free. Why? They are marginally profitable in depressed rural areas where the imputs are way off standard relative to the formula RPS/FXG uses to determine what they think it costs you to run the route. Why is that the case? The core zone formula is blind to RD's. They were never factored into the equation. Don't tell me this is B.S because I talked to the retired UPS engineer who was from downtown Manhatten who set up the routes but did not know of their existance. Secondly when we began to see on a daily basis just how slanted the contract language was in favor of G providing the company with value clearly disproportionate to the value we were receiving we could plainly see that taking on more routes made it even more unbalanced. Third, to give the guy driving that route what he had earned for himself and that was a family sustaining wage, an employer paid health insurane plan and something in the way of a pension there wouldn't have been enough left over to make it worthwhile to have additional routes. So we simply gave any additional routes to whoever wanted them. Needless to say the people who took those routes didn't last very long. Too much debt, too much taken out for a lifestyle the economics of the route couldn't support. Any more snide comments? [/QUOTE]
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