UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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K-Mart put themselves out of business.
Bye Bye for now....Amazon
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K-Mart put themselves out of business.
Why should UPS be crushing Fedex? Same human race running both companies. If both are running optimally, they'd be equals. Whatever you list, Fedex could do the same.
Browndriver5
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While driving though someone's yard, scrapping their driveway and hitting their mailbox.
Overpaid Union Thug
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The Amazon volume is the same here. I've dropped plenty of yellow Minion boxes on porches this week. And the normal boxes too.
STFXG
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We carry a million worth of liability insurance.
Overpaid Union Thug
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The damages are mostly due to halfassed packaging. Just wait until FedEx Ground gets ahold of it. LOL!Volume in my hub has dropped dramatically and we've seen a ton of dumbbeing done to try and compensate.
I also heard we were losing a significant chunk of Amazon due to damages.
My educated guess, good enough for a real solid rumor around the belts...
Think something like Ground 60-65% and Air 75-85%.
So think of a $10 list ground package (something smallish) your typical solid customer would be paying around $7.50, Amazon will be paying around $4. Now do you think you make enough profit per package to eat that $3.50 difference? Well your quarterlies do not state that kind of profit per shipment on avg.
That is where large metrics begin to factor in, you hear things like "Pays for over-head", from my travels, some of that is true, but it is also usually gray trying to be precise with a lot of numbers factored in.
Would you do better not having them and cutting over-head (jobs/machines) accordingly? Perhaps. Or will your profit per package take a hit on the rest of your remaining volume? Perhaps.
It seems like Wall Street likes growth, so lets say you had a better bottom line, but your volume were down, they worry about that. What they want is both, better bottom line with growth showing. Most likely some of the leverage an Amazon sized account would have and yes... they'll know that.
Does UPS or Fedex survive without Amazon, of course. But it may cost some jobs. Another educated guess is USPS is seeing Amazon growth. Why? Cheaper yet. No dim rules. Sunday and Sat for nothing. Still deliver adequately no matter what a rival driver may think.
Think something like Ground 60-65% and Air 75-85%.
So think of a $10 list ground package (something smallish) your typical solid customer would be paying around $7.50, Amazon will be paying around $4. Now do you think you make enough profit per package to eat that $3.50 difference? Well your quarterlies do not state that kind of profit per shipment on avg.
That is where large metrics begin to factor in, you hear things like "Pays for over-head", from my travels, some of that is true, but it is also usually gray trying to be precise with a lot of numbers factored in.
Would you do better not having them and cutting over-head (jobs/machines) accordingly? Perhaps. Or will your profit per package take a hit on the rest of your remaining volume? Perhaps.
It seems like Wall Street likes growth, so lets say you had a better bottom line, but your volume were down, they worry about that. What they want is both, better bottom line with growth showing. Most likely some of the leverage an Amazon sized account would have and yes... they'll know that.
Does UPS or Fedex survive without Amazon, of course. But it may cost some jobs. Another educated guess is USPS is seeing Amazon growth. Why? Cheaper yet. No dim rules. Sunday and Sat for nothing. Still deliver adequately no matter what a rival driver may think.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
No, we received 6 this week.
Lead Belly
BANNED
Yep. I wish we could phase them out of the equation. I really don't want anything from to do with them. Can't wait for someone to come up and knock them off.
Lead Belly
BANNED
To many eggs in one basket. It's not a healthy relationship.
Lead Belly
BANNED
You are on vacation.
Johney
Pineapple King
Don't forget stealing them blind.
UnconTROLLed
perfection
keep Amazon, dump pottery barn. thanks
ManInBrown
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If the idiots at Amazon learned to use more then one piece of scotch tape on a 40LB box, maybe so many wouldn't get damaged in our network
Orion inc.
I like turtles
The USPS loses money on those amazon Saturday and Sunday deliveries. There is no way with their overhead they make cost on that. They also use their 1st class mail and stamp revenue to subsidize the cheap rates on their expanding package volume. That's why the USPS rates are always lower than our ground rates in some cases.
FilingBluesFL
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UnconTROLLed
perfection
All done by machine, not hand. That's why the labels are always in weird places, get torn with the single piece of tape that wasn't aligned in the machine properly, etc. Run-of-the-mill service.
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