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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 4373904" data-attributes="member: 58386"><p>Spot on. Express isn't going to pass that volume off to ground at cost. They're going to want a margin for it. When Ground gets it they'll want a margin from it before they pass it off to the contractors. The contractors in turn will want a margin off it before they assign it to their employees for final delivery. So by that time you're down to zero benefits and fast food wages which in some if not many cases will be state minimum. How much are you going to get for that kind of money.</p><p></p><p>In regard to the prospect of Express having to take back a lot of the volume they would otherwise pass to Ground.... I believe that they will due to a considerable extent by the inability of Ground contractors to find people willing to work for next to nothing. The work is simply too labor intensive, working conditions too poor, qualifications too high and pay too damn low to acquire clean and sober people with a work ethic in sufficient quantities . The disparity between the value demanded and the value offered will simply be too great. It simply cannot help but to have a negative impact on expectations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 4373904, member: 58386"] Spot on. Express isn't going to pass that volume off to ground at cost. They're going to want a margin for it. When Ground gets it they'll want a margin from it before they pass it off to the contractors. The contractors in turn will want a margin off it before they assign it to their employees for final delivery. So by that time you're down to zero benefits and fast food wages which in some if not many cases will be state minimum. How much are you going to get for that kind of money. In regard to the prospect of Express having to take back a lot of the volume they would otherwise pass to Ground.... I believe that they will due to a considerable extent by the inability of Ground contractors to find people willing to work for next to nothing. The work is simply too labor intensive, working conditions too poor, qualifications too high and pay too damn low to acquire clean and sober people with a work ethic in sufficient quantities . The disparity between the value demanded and the value offered will simply be too great. It simply cannot help but to have a negative impact on expectations. [/QUOTE]
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