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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 947259" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>You might want to break out a map. Your suppositions work fine for large urban areas with multiple stations, but much of the country is just like rural Texas. We're a small city of 100,000 with a service area of 400,000+. And this isn't a poor area. Between oil and gas and ranching we have quite a few well off people who like their catalog shipments. And plenty of people in the country depend on cellphones and most are P1 dels. Ground is certainly doing big business here but I have to ask, will Verizon and others increase their shipping facilities nationwide to take advantage of limited Ground overnight service or will they ship from one or two locations? If so they'll have to use Express for most of it as they have to please customers first. And if you look at that map you'll see alot of territory that has to be covered that's much closer to small stand alone cities than large urban areas.</p><p></p><p>The problem I have with all of this is the intent seems not to be a good Samaritan and warn others of impending betrayal but rather smacks of trying to hurt the company by trying to influence others to quit. As one who did quit in '97, I know what kind of financial stress that can result in. People get angry and all worked up and in the end are much worse off. If someone wants to quit more power to them, good luck. But do it with a solid job offer, not because you listened to someone else.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 947259, member: 24302"] You might want to break out a map. Your suppositions work fine for large urban areas with multiple stations, but much of the country is just like rural Texas. We're a small city of 100,000 with a service area of 400,000+. And this isn't a poor area. Between oil and gas and ranching we have quite a few well off people who like their catalog shipments. And plenty of people in the country depend on cellphones and most are P1 dels. Ground is certainly doing big business here but I have to ask, will Verizon and others increase their shipping facilities nationwide to take advantage of limited Ground overnight service or will they ship from one or two locations? If so they'll have to use Express for most of it as they have to please customers first. And if you look at that map you'll see alot of territory that has to be covered that's much closer to small stand alone cities than large urban areas. The problem I have with all of this is the intent seems not to be a good Samaritan and warn others of impending betrayal but rather smacks of trying to hurt the company by trying to influence others to quit. As one who did quit in '97, I know what kind of financial stress that can result in. People get angry and all worked up and in the end are much worse off. If someone wants to quit more power to them, good luck. But do it with a solid job offer, not because you listened to someone else. [/QUOTE]
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