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What is UPS really doing about FedEx Ground?
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<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 666544" data-attributes="member: 12508"><p>I still can't believe that UPS has done so little to protest the clear advantages FedEx Ground has in the marketplace, which is why I posted this thread in the first place. Just how is it that one company gets to play by one set of rules, and the other gets a special set that allows them to "cheat"? It's like playing Monopoly, but UPS has to pay twice the rent when they land on someone else's property.</p><p> </p><p>As others have pointed-out, UPS is obviously better at servicing the customer and is a far more professional organization. I would agree that more and more customers will eventually switch their business back to UPS as they discover FedEx Ground cannot deliver on it's promises. Low prices aren't everything.</p><p> </p><p>My main point remains, and that is why does FedEx get special treatment in the ground arena, much as they do in the realm of air shipments with the RLA exemption? Both the contractor scam <em>and</em> the RLA exemption amount to favorable defacto subsidies for FedEx operations which put <em>any</em> competitors (not just UPS) at a distinct <em>dis</em>advantage. How is this fair? UPS does appear to be fighting the RLA deal, but the only way they seem to be battling Ground is by providing a better product.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 666544, member: 12508"] I still can't believe that UPS has done so little to protest the clear advantages FedEx Ground has in the marketplace, which is why I posted this thread in the first place. Just how is it that one company gets to play by one set of rules, and the other gets a special set that allows them to "cheat"? It's like playing Monopoly, but UPS has to pay twice the rent when they land on someone else's property. As others have pointed-out, UPS is obviously better at servicing the customer and is a far more professional organization. I would agree that more and more customers will eventually switch their business back to UPS as they discover FedEx Ground cannot deliver on it's promises. Low prices aren't everything. My main point remains, and that is why does FedEx get special treatment in the ground arena, much as they do in the realm of air shipments with the RLA exemption? Both the contractor scam [I]and[/I] the RLA exemption amount to favorable defacto subsidies for FedEx operations which put [I]any[/I] competitors (not just UPS) at a distinct [I]dis[/I]advantage. How is this fair? UPS does appear to be fighting the RLA deal, but the only way they seem to be battling Ground is by providing a better product. [/QUOTE]
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