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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 5564102" data-attributes="member: 58386"><p>Looks like I'll have to straighten old VT out again. The basic structure of the Ground OPCO has changed very little from it's original Dan Sullivan design back in the Roadway era. As long as it stayed within those parameters a business to business only operation working inside the city limits it could get the job done.</p><p>However as it expanded out into rural America the shortcomings of Sullivan's folly became more obvious. Upon seeing this Roadway kept it expectations pretty modest and reasonable.</p><p>When Fat Freddy and his disciples took over they couldn't stay in the original market. They made the new Fedex Ground be all things to all markets.</p><p>One of the long standing problems with Ground is the lack of constant service and that's attributable to contractors focused on their own self interests, turnover and permanently unprofitable to service areas. As was evidenced by the Express boxes being returned to Express from Ground days later along with many of those permanently unprofitable routes today being forcibly imposed on nearby contractors.</p><p>Now you would think that Fat Freddy would be well aware of the inherent shortcomings that use of third party contractors brings with them. </p><p>Nevertheless he is shoving them into a market that has zero tolerance for anything less than one hundred percent consistent premium nationwide service. And he's not going to tolerate anything less or give any quarter to anyone who can't keep up despite the fact that you the contractor was asked to put ever increasing amounts of money at risk for the sake of this venture.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 5564102, member: 58386"] Looks like I'll have to straighten old VT out again. The basic structure of the Ground OPCO has changed very little from it's original Dan Sullivan design back in the Roadway era. As long as it stayed within those parameters a business to business only operation working inside the city limits it could get the job done. However as it expanded out into rural America the shortcomings of Sullivan's folly became more obvious. Upon seeing this Roadway kept it expectations pretty modest and reasonable. When Fat Freddy and his disciples took over they couldn't stay in the original market. They made the new Fedex Ground be all things to all markets. One of the long standing problems with Ground is the lack of constant service and that's attributable to contractors focused on their own self interests, turnover and permanently unprofitable to service areas. As was evidenced by the Express boxes being returned to Express from Ground days later along with many of those permanently unprofitable routes today being forcibly imposed on nearby contractors. Now you would think that Fat Freddy would be well aware of the inherent shortcomings that use of third party contractors brings with them. Nevertheless he is shoving them into a market that has zero tolerance for anything less than one hundred percent consistent premium nationwide service. And he's not going to tolerate anything less or give any quarter to anyone who can't keep up despite the fact that you the contractor was asked to put ever increasing amounts of money at risk for the sake of this venture. [/QUOTE]
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