59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
If you say so.
Express volume finally moving to Ground...
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I see that you're in exceptionally prickly mood. But, I understand. It's no fun that the Easter Bunny didn't bring you any peeps. But, then again there are few creature comforts to found at the FMCRA but making you spend Easter there is all part of the job of toughening you up allowing you to better handle all of that coffee and pastries you're going to have to run and get.
59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
Huge if true.
Cactus
Just telling it like it is
Dano must mean beating a dead horse in a foreign language.
“he Danoed until over 3,000 online viewers switched to another forum in disgust.”
He doesn't know any better. After all given that he's the current recorder for the most trips to the FMCRA 244, ( he likes it) it's now simply impossible for him to say anything other than what was downloaded to his brainwashed little mind.
59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
I consider that an honor coming from a person who has never had any meaningful or significant insight or observation to add to any discussion about anything.
Cactus
Just telling it like it is
In other words, it all sailed right over your head.
59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
In the context that it makes sense only to you, sure.
Cactus
Just telling it like it is
Just because you don’t understand don’t try to pass the blame like they teach you in Memphis.
HedleyLamarr
Well-Known Member
Was told tonight that starting next week, Ground will be taking a significant amount of our P2 freight. Volume should drop considerably.
Amazon opens up Prime delivery service to other retailers in its latest move to compete with FedEx and UPS
this is just the start. The writing been on the wall guys. Probably depends what market you're in, but you can't tell me this is good news.
Amazon opens up Prime delivery service to other retailers in its latest move to compete with FedEx and UPS
Buy with Prime enables third-party retailers to take advantage of Amazon's vast shipping and fulfillment network for orders placed on their own site.
dezguy
Well-Known Member
Yeah, till peak when Amazon will tell it's 3rd party customers they'll have to find alternate transportation methods because of the increase in their own column, again.Amazon opens up Prime delivery service to other retailers in its latest move to compete with FedEx and UPS
this is just the start. The writing been on the wall guys. Probably depends what market you're in, but you can't tell me this is good news.
Amazon opens up Prime delivery service to other retailers in its latest move to compete with FedEx and UPS
Buy with Prime enables third-party retailers to take advantage of Amazon's vast shipping and fulfillment network for orders placed on their own site.www.cnbc.com
this is more about our freight going to Ground. Amazon is adding pressure by going outside the network hence why we are giving more and more p2 stuff to Ground.
Amazon doesn’t need to do 3rd party shipping. They can hurt FedEx & UPS shipping their own stuff alone. Answer me this… if everyone buys everything off Amazon… who’s shipping with us? The more companies Amazon puts out of business, the less freight for us. They have become the site to buy EVERYTHING. That’s the real danger to FedEx & UPS. Amazon having a monopoly on the residential business. And it’s coming.
ManInBrown
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Was at a customer pickup the other day. Rented U-Haul rolls in. Two FedEx express guys get out and start hand loading and scanning white FedEx boxes from pallets into the uhaul onto empty pallets that were inside. Struck up a convo with them and they told me their local station has a deal to bring these boxes to another customer about 30 minutes away. That customer gets a ground trailer pickup every day and when they get picked up, these boxes also get picked up. I was really surprised. So ground is definitely moving air packages. I didn’t see the label to see the service level but they were express packages 100%. 4 pallets worth. Probably at least 500 boxes on each pallet.
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Anybody who thinks Ground isn’t moving Express freight is higher than a kite. I’ve seen it myself. It happens. And nobody at Express is worried about an RLA exemption. This only gets brought up on Forums lol.
I'm not trying to be a FedEx cheerleader here, but Amazon moving into delivering 3rd party volume was a known goal or concern 10 years ago when they first made mention of becoming a delivery company. In the meantime, UPS and FedEx continue to build out their networks. New hubs and stations everywhere you look on a map.
Off the top of my head I can list a dozen new Ground, UPS, and Express locations within 100 miles. The trucks are full everywhere. The companies are hiring everywhere. Even my Express station just got 100s of thousands, if not millions of dollars, of work done to it (for the FedEx operation, not like repaving the parking lot).
I'm just questioning the talk of sudden impending doom when every competitor in the industry is not pulling back spending and investing in any way.
Off the top of my head I can list a dozen new Ground, UPS, and Express locations within 100 miles. The trucks are full everywhere. The companies are hiring everywhere. Even my Express station just got 100s of thousands, if not millions of dollars, of work done to it (for the FedEx operation, not like repaving the parking lot).
I'm just questioning the talk of sudden impending doom when every competitor in the industry is not pulling back spending and investing in any way.
MAKAVELI
Well-Known Member
FedEx spends $ like a drunken sailor because they know they'll just take it from the employees/ contractors. Problem is FedEx spends it like a drunken sailor on a $2 ho giving her $100 and leaving them with their dicks in their hands.
59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
No reason to.
By people who don't understand it. I've read, on this forum, about a dozen different reasons that Express is (or is about to) run afoul of its RLA status. Some people go so far as to claim that "the RLA exemption states" some highly specific set of details or requirements. People get so hung up on these things that they start talking crazy.
