Orion,
I will just tell you that UPS has afforded me to have lived on 4 continents during expansion. See multiple operations other than just Package.
You're right, there was always competition. I had seen the larger companies UPS competed against say the same things as Brown. They were so big that UPS wouldn't be a factor. Those companies are gone. Then I saw UPS say FDX wasn't a threat. They are still here. I saw FDX buy Tigers right underneath UPS setting back Asia growth. I could go on. Look at the TNT deal? FDXwill have a very strong presence in Europe and Latin America in a very short time. FDX buying Calibre (RPS), FDX had a ground network virtually overnight... The USPS which thought of packages as an after thought to 1st class mail focusing on packages and increasing service taking away market share from UPS. UPS using the USPS to deliver because it's less than paying a PC driver to deliver it....Then you now have customers like Amazon looking to build their own shipping networks to eliminate using UPS.
So my point is there are some here that think that the competition can't surpass UPS. Get your head out of the sand instead of bashing customers on here. Once FDX integrates ground and express together as one like UPS, this will cause a lot of problems for the UPS workforce. Don't worry though, it can never happen. . Have a great night.
Please expand on how ups afforded you to live on 4 continents. Was it through stock ownership or a position in the actual company?
Your points are interesting but very dramatic. Ups is a very very conservative company and has been around over 100 years. They tend to make calculated decisions on the upper level of the direction it goes. That's why they change CEOs every few years. I don't agree with everything management(especially operations) does but on the higher levels, they have a solid game.
Any company can fold. You're right. But ups doesn't get reckless in that sense. Like I said, very conservative type in that mentality.
You want to honestly know how I affect the direction of ups? I do my job every day in the safest way and in the best interests of my customers. That makes the brand valuable and reliable and everyone wins. Over a 30-40 career, that is what makes ups strong. If we have some the best and safest drivers and such in the business. That's all I can do on my end. As a driver and a shareholder.
And news to you, fedex , USPS and Amazon all have issues and are far from perfect. Amazon has labor troubles and bad PR in their warehouses. Fedex has lawsuits in every state against their ground model. And the post office costs outweigh their revenue.
Out of all the competition , ups is solid.
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