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<blockquote data-quote="browniehound" data-source="post: 403861" data-attributes="member: 4653"><p>I write this post without knowing all the facts, so please forgive my ignorance. Is volume down? Down from where? To me, it appears to be up from 2001 to now.</p><p> </p><p>I understand ground volume growth has been slow or flat at best. Still, stop counts have increased in the same area where I work. I can think of a specific route in 2001 never did more than 95 stops. If you had 95 stops you were hurtin'. The same area will now do 95 stops on a light day and its more like 110-125. Nothing has changed except the volume. Same area, more stops. I don't know about the pieces, but the route was done in a p10 and now requires a p12.</p><p> </p><p>The question then becomes is it this type of volume that UPS wants? The residential internet and catalog orders?</p><p> </p><p>The year was 2000 and I was having a ride with my center manager. I was new and asked him how long it would take for me to get a route. He said "at the rate we're growing, 1-2 years". He said we grew at 6% (ground) last year and this was unheard of in the years in which he began his career.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This was a a few short months after Fed-ex entered the ground business. It was at the beginning of the market collapse of 2000-2002.</p><p> </p><p>Still, it seems things have never been the same at UPS since even though the economy and market recovered and have since "tanked" again. "Times are good" I heard from the mouth of the same center manager in September of 2000. </p><p> </p><p>Man, it looks like UPS underestimated Fed-ex. Because "times are not good" from what I hear at every PCM concerning growth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="browniehound, post: 403861, member: 4653"] I write this post without knowing all the facts, so please forgive my ignorance. Is volume down? Down from where? To me, it appears to be up from 2001 to now. I understand ground volume growth has been slow or flat at best. Still, stop counts have increased in the same area where I work. I can think of a specific route in 2001 never did more than 95 stops. If you had 95 stops you were hurtin'. The same area will now do 95 stops on a light day and its more like 110-125. Nothing has changed except the volume. Same area, more stops. I don't know about the pieces, but the route was done in a p10 and now requires a p12. The question then becomes is it this type of volume that UPS wants? The residential internet and catalog orders? The year was 2000 and I was having a ride with my center manager. I was new and asked him how long it would take for me to get a route. He said "at the rate we're growing, 1-2 years". He said we grew at 6% (ground) last year and this was unheard of in the years in which he began his career. This was a a few short months after Fed-ex entered the ground business. It was at the beginning of the market collapse of 2000-2002. Still, it seems things have never been the same at UPS since even though the economy and market recovered and have since "tanked" again. "Times are good" I heard from the mouth of the same center manager in September of 2000. Man, it looks like UPS underestimated Fed-ex. Because "times are not good" from what I hear at every PCM concerning growth. [/QUOTE]
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