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Reference: A history of Enhancements
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<blockquote data-quote="brownIEman" data-source="post: 1203120" data-attributes="member: 14596"><p>Again you are missing the point, and making mine. Have they done the right thing to stay in business? For now, yes. But they are not looking at the long run. The costs savings they have made, and continue to make, are the smaller of the companies costs. In the long run, there is not enough savings in those areas to remain sustainable. In '97 UPS boasted that we had about 80% of the US domestic small package market. Today, estimates are around 50%. That's roughly 2% market share lost per year. We have grown, because of the sea change in retail I mentioned, that market has exploded. But no matter how big that market gets, when our share hits 0, it is the same number. Then what happens to those 400,000 people?</p><p></p><p>Clock is ticking, we have 25 years. I get that you are not looking that far down the road. You are in good company, neither is the board or management committee. Casey also said "our horizon is as distant as our mind's eye wishes it to be"... guess the minds eyes have gotten short sighted from what they once were.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brownIEman, post: 1203120, member: 14596"] Again you are missing the point, and making mine. Have they done the right thing to stay in business? For now, yes. But they are not looking at the long run. The costs savings they have made, and continue to make, are the smaller of the companies costs. In the long run, there is not enough savings in those areas to remain sustainable. In '97 UPS boasted that we had about 80% of the US domestic small package market. Today, estimates are around 50%. That's roughly 2% market share lost per year. We have grown, because of the sea change in retail I mentioned, that market has exploded. But no matter how big that market gets, when our share hits 0, it is the same number. Then what happens to those 400,000 people? Clock is ticking, we have 25 years. I get that you are not looking that far down the road. You are in good company, neither is the board or management committee. Casey also said "our horizon is as distant as our mind's eye wishes it to be"... guess the minds eyes have gotten short sighted from what they once were. [/QUOTE]
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