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<blockquote data-quote="RPSman" data-source="post: 3588818" data-attributes="member: 51437"><p>Makaveli, Federal Express did not buy Caliber Systems until AFTER the 1997 UPS strike had been settled, and UPS was back to work. So your statement that Federal Express (the original air carrier) handled the majority of packages during the 1997 strike was WRONG. Even though Federal Express might have picked up 15,000 packages/day, during the strike, their couriers were having trouble handling bigger boxes, as per my earlier quote. The Federal Express terminal was next to ours, their line haul truck was a cube van & they mostly ran in vans, with some running in small pickup trucks with toppers. After Roadway Express was spun off as a separate company with no debt, we got new uniform shirts that were blue and just said RPS. We were still wearing those when I sold my route in the spring of 1999. They DID NOT change the name of RPS to Fed Ex Ground until the fall of 1999. Yes, you are correct in your other quote, RPS did not take everything and anything during the UPS strike, we took care of our regular customers & the increase of packages that they had. But as I mentioned earlier, it was other companies, now out of business who helped RPS & USPS during the strike. I was an RPS P & D contractor up to the day I sold out in the spring of 1999, I never worked for Fed Ex Ground, and I and other RPS contractors are offended that you lumped us in with Fed EX during the strike, when they did not own us then.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RPSman, post: 3588818, member: 51437"] Makaveli, Federal Express did not buy Caliber Systems until AFTER the 1997 UPS strike had been settled, and UPS was back to work. So your statement that Federal Express (the original air carrier) handled the majority of packages during the 1997 strike was WRONG. Even though Federal Express might have picked up 15,000 packages/day, during the strike, their couriers were having trouble handling bigger boxes, as per my earlier quote. The Federal Express terminal was next to ours, their line haul truck was a cube van & they mostly ran in vans, with some running in small pickup trucks with toppers. After Roadway Express was spun off as a separate company with no debt, we got new uniform shirts that were blue and just said RPS. We were still wearing those when I sold my route in the spring of 1999. They DID NOT change the name of RPS to Fed Ex Ground until the fall of 1999. Yes, you are correct in your other quote, RPS did not take everything and anything during the UPS strike, we took care of our regular customers & the increase of packages that they had. But as I mentioned earlier, it was other companies, now out of business who helped RPS & USPS during the strike. I was an RPS P & D contractor up to the day I sold out in the spring of 1999, I never worked for Fed Ex Ground, and I and other RPS contractors are offended that you lumped us in with Fed EX during the strike, when they did not own us then. [/QUOTE]
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