I have seen a few of them go out of business and I have some friends in my town that lost their shirt when they converted their Mailboxes Etc store into a UPS Store. I have also seen a couple that seem to do well, I guess it depends on your business sense and having a good location.
Motivated People who are busy running a business don't have time to come on here. Just saying.
I guess we.can rule you out of both then.... Richard Cranium strikes again.
I am the resident sarcastic smartass ... just ignore me like everyone else does.
That is, unless you like sarcastic smartasses.
They also "suggest" store hours. The box vendors that are cheaper for the particular store I pick up and deliver to have been labeled as "inferior" products. The point is UPS's arm of micro managing extends into the franchise just as much as the company owned working facilities.Ups suggests two box vendors. They force neither on anyone.
There is a franchise owner in our area. He has been approached by a couple of other owners to buy their stores. It seems that to be successful, there needs to be a good population base (85,000 at the very minimum) and it helps to have a college nearby to utilize copying services. The local guy says that he is not getting rich and that he basically 'owns' his own job.
As a driver, I am not sure that I would want to own my own business where UPS is the boss of me. That would be kind of daunting.
Ignore-never.
Agree-ummmmm.