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<blockquote data-quote="dmac1" data-source="post: 4877087" data-attributes="member: 60252"><p>If fedex really wants to be a logistics company and not a delivery service alone, and eliminate most employees, they could get into arranging transport optimization service, maybe keeping the strictly overnight express. They could contract out individual terminals while reserving all express packages. Or fedex could just do pickups, and sort ALL but express packages to UPS, USPS, Amazon, or the ground network, whichever is best for the customer, and let those services handle ALL deliveries, again keeping strictly the express delivery service as part of their 'airline.' Amazon would probably like to have the small fedex terminals in more rural area where they don't have warehouses. I live about 60 miles in either direction from the closest Amazon terminal, but Fedex ground has a small terminal that could receive a couple truckloads from Amazon, or Amazon could make great use of the terminal and contract with Fedex to deliver both Amazon and FEDEX packages. It is REALLY stupid to have a UPS truck, and express van, a ground driver, and an HD driver, along with the USPS carriers all servicing the same places and making up to 120 mile roundtrips with multiple vehicles. HD is actually about 150 mile roundtrip, while ground and express each have a small local terminal. I don't know why ground and HD are still separate. Someone, sometime, will see the extra profit potential in combining some or all of the delivery services. Amazon probably has the most money to spend on doing that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dmac1, post: 4877087, member: 60252"] If fedex really wants to be a logistics company and not a delivery service alone, and eliminate most employees, they could get into arranging transport optimization service, maybe keeping the strictly overnight express. They could contract out individual terminals while reserving all express packages. Or fedex could just do pickups, and sort ALL but express packages to UPS, USPS, Amazon, or the ground network, whichever is best for the customer, and let those services handle ALL deliveries, again keeping strictly the express delivery service as part of their 'airline.' Amazon would probably like to have the small fedex terminals in more rural area where they don't have warehouses. I live about 60 miles in either direction from the closest Amazon terminal, but Fedex ground has a small terminal that could receive a couple truckloads from Amazon, or Amazon could make great use of the terminal and contract with Fedex to deliver both Amazon and FEDEX packages. It is REALLY stupid to have a UPS truck, and express van, a ground driver, and an HD driver, along with the USPS carriers all servicing the same places and making up to 120 mile roundtrips with multiple vehicles. HD is actually about 150 mile roundtrip, while ground and express each have a small local terminal. I don't know why ground and HD are still separate. Someone, sometime, will see the extra profit potential in combining some or all of the delivery services. Amazon probably has the most money to spend on doing that. [/QUOTE]
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