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<blockquote data-quote="59 Dano" data-source="post: 5936957" data-attributes="member: 23516">From the article:By the end of September, FedEx will no longer be the primary air cargo provider for the U.S. Postal Service <a href="https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ups-wins-air-cargo-contract-with-postal-service-replaces-fedex" target="_blank">after UPS recently won the five-year contract</a>. Management said it expects volumes to be near the contract minimum until then as business transitions to UPSI remember pointing out that FedEx couldn&#039;t get the USPS to agree to certain minimum volume guarantees (which sunk any hope of a contract between the two) and [USER=68552]@Aquaman[/USER] asked why in God&#039;s name would anyone guarantee&nbsp; minimum volume because it&#039;s the one thing in this industry that can&#039;t be guaranteed.&nbsp;&nbsp; And here they were, operating under a contract with a minimum volume guarantee!Go figure!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="59 Dano, post: 5936957, member: 23516"] From the article: [I]By the end of September, FedEx will no longer be the primary air cargo provider for the U.S. Postal Service [URL='https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ups-wins-air-cargo-contract-with-postal-service-replaces-fedex']after UPS recently won the five-year contract[/URL]. Management said it expects [B][SIZE=7]volumes to be near the contract minimum[/SIZE][/B] until then as business transitions to UPS[/I] I remember pointing out that FedEx couldn't get the USPS to agree to certain minimum volume guarantees (which sunk any hope of a contract between the two) and [USER=68552]@Aquaman[/USER] asked why in God's name would anyone guarantee minimum volume because it's the one thing in this industry that can't be guaranteed. And here they were, operating under a contract with a minimum volume guarantee! Go figure! [/QUOTE]

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