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<blockquote data-quote="dmac1" data-source="post: 4741108" data-attributes="member: 60252"><p>Fedex reserved the right to unilaterally void all contracts in the event that they change the business model. All anyone is buying if they purchase a bsiness is a chance to get paid for the PROFIT they would have made from cancellation until the date your contract would have ended. If fedex cancels two months before your renewal date, all they need to pay is the few thousand you would have had in PROFIT, not gross income. And they are not required to renew, so if buying, all you are buying is the right to service the contract until the renewal date, plus the value of any equipment. So far, they are sticking with the fake 'independent' model. </p><p></p><p>At some point, with fedex's purchase power, they could easily save money on fuel, insurance, maintenance, human resources, etc any time they want. Right now, every 'owner' is just an excess middle manager when fedex has plenty of managers already, Fedex has duplicate locations with express and ground, Fedex already has a HR dept for hiring, I think fedex is just about </p><p>mature' enough as a ground carrier that they could operate efficiently as one operation- like UPS. The bigger volume gets, the more savings there is for fedex by eliminating the middle man 'contractor' model/And with unions so weak, and more and more laborers out of jobs due to technology and automation, fedex isn't too worried about unions anymore. </p><p></p><p>And when robotic delivery is available, do you think fedex is going to pay contractors to manage a fleet of autonomous delivery vehicles????</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dmac1, post: 4741108, member: 60252"] Fedex reserved the right to unilaterally void all contracts in the event that they change the business model. All anyone is buying if they purchase a bsiness is a chance to get paid for the PROFIT they would have made from cancellation until the date your contract would have ended. If fedex cancels two months before your renewal date, all they need to pay is the few thousand you would have had in PROFIT, not gross income. And they are not required to renew, so if buying, all you are buying is the right to service the contract until the renewal date, plus the value of any equipment. So far, they are sticking with the fake 'independent' model. At some point, with fedex's purchase power, they could easily save money on fuel, insurance, maintenance, human resources, etc any time they want. Right now, every 'owner' is just an excess middle manager when fedex has plenty of managers already, Fedex has duplicate locations with express and ground, Fedex already has a HR dept for hiring, I think fedex is just about mature' enough as a ground carrier that they could operate efficiently as one operation- like UPS. The bigger volume gets, the more savings there is for fedex by eliminating the middle man 'contractor' model/And with unions so weak, and more and more laborers out of jobs due to technology and automation, fedex isn't too worried about unions anymore. And when robotic delivery is available, do you think fedex is going to pay contractors to manage a fleet of autonomous delivery vehicles???? [/QUOTE]
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