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UPS vs. FedEx. Who gets to be king of hill?
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 5118503" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://landline.media/ups-vs-fedex-who-gets-to-be-king-of-hill/" target="_blank"><strong>UPS vs. FedEx. Who gets to be king of hill? - Land Line</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Was 2021 the year FedEx passed UPS to become the biggest carrier in North America? In its annual top 250 carriers list, CCJ Magazine said FedEx is now number 1. We’ll have to wait until June for the Transport Topics top 100 carriers list. It will probably show the same thing.</p><p></p><p>Earlier this year, UPS sold off its LTL unit UPS Freight, and UPS CEO Carol Tomé declared the goal was to make UPS “better not bigger.” It sounded like she was preparing the world for a UPS move to second place.</p><p></p><p><strong>It was a long road to the top for UPS.</strong></p><p></p><p>The company began in Seattle as a bicycle messenger service in 1907 but soon began delivering packages for the Bon Marché Department Store using a doctored Model-T Ford. In those days before most families had a car, department stores delivered your purchases. You didn’t have to carry stuff home. What was then called Merchants Parcel Delivery eventually served department stores up and down the West Coast before expanding to stores across the country.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 5118503, member: 1"] [URL='https://landline.media/ups-vs-fedex-who-gets-to-be-king-of-hill/'][B]UPS vs. FedEx. Who gets to be king of hill? - Land Line[/B][/URL] Was 2021 the year FedEx passed UPS to become the biggest carrier in North America? In its annual top 250 carriers list, CCJ Magazine said FedEx is now number 1. We’ll have to wait until June for the Transport Topics top 100 carriers list. It will probably show the same thing. Earlier this year, UPS sold off its LTL unit UPS Freight, and UPS CEO Carol Tomé declared the goal was to make UPS “better not bigger.” It sounded like she was preparing the world for a UPS move to second place. [B]It was a long road to the top for UPS.[/B] The company began in Seattle as a bicycle messenger service in 1907 but soon began delivering packages for the Bon Marché Department Store using a doctored Model-T Ford. In those days before most families had a car, department stores delivered your purchases. You didn’t have to carry stuff home. What was then called Merchants Parcel Delivery eventually served department stores up and down the West Coast before expanding to stores across the country. [/QUOTE]
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