We’ve had it for over 3 months in our area. Didn’t notice it
So what you're saying is that I'm not going to get to foist my work on someone else that easily?
All depends on the type of route, if you're in an industrial, or mostly business area you'll likely not notice a big change at all in volume on your route.
My route is almost 100% residential deliveries. I have a Pep Boys and a dentist or two, but other than that, it's houses and apartments.
Nobody’s rt noticed anything. We still have extra rts everyday. Maybe it depends on your station. I don’t know how it works
It’s all based on Ground’s network. If you’re in a remote area or out on the coasts not as much volume will still make the commits with Ground. If you’re smack in the center of the country on a residential route you’ll lose a lot of stops.
What would you say about these states. Michigan Ohio Kentucky Tennessee
The best way to get a guess of the impact is go to the Fedex ground service map and punch in your zip code. You’ll see how far the reach of 2 and 3 day pulls are for Ground. You can see what major markets might make a big impact.
I’m from one of those and we haven’t missed a beat. Not sure if your station has to fit a certain criteria. Excessive overtime , turn over , size. I’m not sure , but we definitely deliver packages that ground could of easily made service
It’s still rolling out through the origin stations. They still have some control over destination zip codes as well. If a Ground station is behind they can keep that volume in the Express network. We’ve gotten quite a bit of Express but I’m not sure if the Express routes would notice it. Probably 20ish stops off each Express route in my area.
We’ve had it for months and it’s not close to 20. Our whole region has had it months
Anything FedEx implements won't work, but historically, functionality isn't a condition of their implementations. So I'd expect it regardless, if I was you.
All because of the excessive zeal at keeping a union out. This will be most likely FedEx’s undoing in the end. Give it time.
What does Fat Freddy have against unions?
It’ll be implemented as well as the TNT merger was.
As long as the firewall called "contractors" remains in place Ground will remain nonunion. The big questions going forward are how much power does Fat Freddy have to cede to contractors in order for that firewall to continue to stand and will the public interest require more industry regulation in the future and to what extent could it serve to weaken that firewall?
It’s been implemented. It’s working fine. I don’t think it was terribly hard to pull off.
