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<blockquote data-quote="Star B" data-source="post: 2780655" data-attributes="member: 61246">UPS is UPS.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t matter if your dealing with Ground or Air.&nbsp; When you call the 800 number at UPS, you don&#039;t have to ask for the &#039;Ground Division&#039;, and get transferred over there for a pickup.&nbsp; You put something small in a UPS dropbox, it goes on its merry way, not back to the station for a day waiting for the &quot;Other Company&quot; to move.I mean, either UPS is giving away the farm with ARS or we&#039;re doing something totally wrong.&nbsp; I&#039;m personally frustrated at the fact that I see us deliver so much freight, only for it to be handed to UPS for the ARS return.&nbsp; Maybe this will change with the Walgreens partnership... I don&#039;t know.I agree there are too many &quot;Sky is falling&quot; posts, but, this one seems to be a legit question.&nbsp; Other than the post office, FXHD was the only major delivery company running a Saturday ground operation.&nbsp; Yes, it was resi only but it was a major ground operation.&nbsp; Businesses that ran a 6 day operation were locked to either using UPS Saturday AM, FXE SDR, or the post office.&nbsp; While I think that we may lose some SDR...&nbsp; I can&#039;t see any major drops in volume for Express because, well, if they wanted it to go ground, they would have shipped it ground.&nbsp; I can see, however, the shift from FXG/HD to UPSG because of the network integration I mentioned earlier.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Star B, post: 2780655, member: 61246"] UPS is UPS. It doesn't matter if your dealing with Ground or Air. When you call the 800 number at UPS, you don't have to ask for the 'Ground Division', and get transferred over there for a pickup. You put something small in a UPS dropbox, it goes on its merry way, not back to the station for a day waiting for the "Other Company" to move. I mean, either UPS is giving away the farm with ARS or we're doing something totally wrong. I'm personally frustrated at the fact that I see us deliver so much freight, only for it to be handed to UPS for the ARS return. Maybe this will change with the Walgreens partnership... I don't know. I agree there are too many "Sky is falling" posts, but, this one seems to be a legit question. Other than the post office, FXHD was the only major delivery company running a Saturday ground operation. Yes, it was resi only but it was a major ground operation. Businesses that ran a 6 day operation were locked to either using UPS Saturday AM, FXE SDR, or the post office. While I think that we may lose some SDR... I can't see any major drops in volume for Express because, well, if they wanted it to go ground, they would have shipped it ground. I can see, however, the shift from FXG/HD to UPSG because of the network integration I mentioned earlier. [/QUOTE]

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