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Message: <blockquote data-quote="brownIEman" data-source="post: 3558604" data-attributes="member: 14596">Just a quick bit of math for all you strike no matter what cheer leaders.In '97 UPS held about 80% of the small package market.  Which means when we stopped moving packages, the infrastructure that had been moving 20% of the volume (UPS' competition) had to try and move that other 80% as well.   They failed miserably.Today that math is nearly reversed.  UPS' market share is just North of 20%.  So when you go on strike this time, it will be the infrastructure of the 80ish % trying to pick up that extra volume.  Still a big task, but much more doable.Likely, much more of the volume will move by other means than happened in 97.  Which also means much more will not come back after the strike.</blockquote>