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<blockquote data-quote="Coldworld" data-source="post: 292519" data-attributes="member: 4777"><p>you didnt understand what I was saying. Yes I agree with you on that issue but ups seems to not be proactive on things unless they know its going to hurt business. there are many examples of this. And in this kind of business, there is lots of competition, yes, but a startup company is not going to be able to come in and buy thousands of trucks, planes, build facilities, purchase land, conveyor equipment, trailers, tractors, the list goes on and on. Start-ups are much easier to do when they dont have so much to purchase, like an internet company.I think we have seen the limits of competition here in the us for small parcel, the big four and I dont have to name them. We also have lots of competition from overseas companies as well, but they almost all seem to be from a foreign post office, which ups has been actively trying to get a bigger piece of those markets. Im sure many of these national post offices of other countries are worried that us companies like fedex and ups are starting to take market share. One more idea to ponder, who let these companies, especially airborne and fedex to get as large as they are today. when these two were born ups was huge, why wasnt more done to either purchase them or slow their growth. Its like beating a dead horse but it needs to be said again...If ups wouldnt have stopped the air service in the early days there would have probably been no fedex or airborne.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Coldworld, post: 292519, member: 4777"] you didnt understand what I was saying. Yes I agree with you on that issue but ups seems to not be proactive on things unless they know its going to hurt business. there are many examples of this. And in this kind of business, there is lots of competition, yes, but a startup company is not going to be able to come in and buy thousands of trucks, planes, build facilities, purchase land, conveyor equipment, trailers, tractors, the list goes on and on. Start-ups are much easier to do when they dont have so much to purchase, like an internet company.I think we have seen the limits of competition here in the us for small parcel, the big four and I dont have to name them. We also have lots of competition from overseas companies as well, but they almost all seem to be from a foreign post office, which ups has been actively trying to get a bigger piece of those markets. Im sure many of these national post offices of other countries are worried that us companies like fedex and ups are starting to take market share. One more idea to ponder, who let these companies, especially airborne and fedex to get as large as they are today. when these two were born ups was huge, why wasnt more done to either purchase them or slow their growth. Its like beating a dead horse but it needs to be said again...If ups wouldnt have stopped the air service in the early days there would have probably been no fedex or airborne. [/QUOTE]
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