Amazon > UPS In Seven Years? *On Topic Please*

[Non sequitur]

Yeah the delivery drivers who work for them will be in shock. It's called minimum wage after expenses!

 

[Faceplanted]

Yeah the delivery drivers who work for them will be in shock. It's called minimum wage after expenses!

I have a very good feeling they are only using these type of contractors until they grow. I would expect a system much more like FedEx ground once they get fully up and running. This uber type of delivery service imho isn't the answer, the FedEx ground model is tried and true and the route owners actually make ok money. Not ups money but they get by fairly well especially when they own more than 1 route

 

[Rick Ross]

I have a very good feeling they are only using these type of contractors until they grow. I would expect a system much more like FedEx ground once they get fully up and running. This uber type of delivery service imho isn't the answer, the FedEx ground model is tried and true and the route owners actually make ok money. Not ups money but they get by fairly well especially when they own more than 1 route

If Amazon makes a play to kick FedEx and UPS to the curb it will have to be obvious. They will have to build hundreds more buildings and add thousands of trucks to ship packages between their warehouses if they want to do what they are doing right now. Throw in same day delivery if ordered by noon or 2 hour delivery and it's impossible without Uber type drivers to supplement it.

It's obvious FedEx and UPS can cripple Amazon for at least one peak season, maybe two or three while Amazon builds out their logistics empire.

It's nice you're so worried about full-time employees who don't have a lot of seniority. If cuts are going to be that drastic a lot of old timers will have their gravy routes turn to crap...

 

[Rick Ross]

I have a very good feeling they are only using these type of contractors until they grow. I would expect a system much more like FedEx ground once they get fully up and running. This uber type of delivery service imho isn't the answer, the FedEx ground model is tried and true and the route owners actually make ok money. Not ups money but they get by fairly well especially when they own more than 1 route

What is the difference between Uber and swiitching to a FedEx Ground type system? Their both independent contractors...

 

[Faceplanted]

What is the difference between Uber and swiitching to a FedEx Ground type system? Their both independent contractors...

The FedEx system is far far more efficient, and there is an incentive to actually be a route owner for FedEx ground especially multiple routes. I know a route owner who owns a few routes with his partner. They do very very well. He does better than I do, I can tell as he lives close to me and has tons of

The uber style is not going to be as efficient as subcontracting work out to people who own trucks and can do 130 stops a day

Years ago rps was a joke. FedEx ground is now a huge competitor to us, and now FedEx ground is in the works of meshing ground and home delivery into one.

Do some reading and research

 

[CleverNameHere]

We need some of this ungodly volume gone that's all I know. Let the clock milkers cry and then retire, low seniority full and part timers are taking it in the poop chute anyway. Relax some standards, change with the times. If someone has a couple tats and more facial hair besides a pervy mustache no one will bat an eye. Ups will shaft itself with its outdated 1950s style BS. Burn baby burn.

 

[DumbTruckDriver]

We need some of this ungodly volume gone that's all I know. Let the clock milkers cry and then retire, low seniority full and part timers are taking it in the poop chute anyway. Relax some standards, change with the times. If someone has a couple tats and more facial hair besides a pervy mustache no one will bat an eye. Ups will shaft itself with its outdated 1950s style BS. Burn baby burn.

Totally agree. I'm tired of having to cover my baby mama's name on my neck.