How Bad Will Peak Be?

[Nolimitz]

Had to be FalconFart!

FF would never survive in Idaho's rural areas. We get real snow here in the mountains

 

[falcon back]

Had to be FalconFart!

I paddled up stream, BOTH WAYS

 

[Working4the1%]

Do you remember the courier in I think it was Idaho who encountered flooded roads? Not to be stopped he borrowed a canoe and finished his route.

No trolling motor..no delivery

 

[falcon back]

FF would never survive in Idaho's rural areas. We get real snow here in the mountains

Why would I live where there is snow? Do you play golf with black balls? I like fishing in warm weather, no ice fishing. Can't cruise a nice muscle car in the snow.

 

[Working4the1%]

Here comes the bad PR. So tired of people asking if their trampoline..can’t they see the letter I’m holding FedEx shipping delays: Customers frustrated with Georgia facility

 

[bacha29]

Here comes the bad PR. So tired of people asking if their trampoline..can’t they see the letter I’m holding FedEx shipping delays: Customers frustrated with Georgia facility

Haven't they had similar disasters at that location in years past?

 

[bacha29]

FF would never survive in Idaho's rural areas. We get real snow here in the mountains

If he did that heroic deed in the wilds of of Idaho or Maine he would never be heard from again and his remains if located would be found in a pile of bear scat.

 

[HD219]

Only few days to go and have not worked past 1700 yet. Has that much freight moved to Ground? Or everybody shopped early?

Every day I see more and more express packages here at ground. My/our stations busiest peak yet.

 

[HedleyLamarr]

Every day I see more and more express packages here at ground. My/our stations busiest peak yet.

I thought LMO was suspended for peak. But it would explain why peak has been easier this year than last.
Ground is a nightmare here; I am actively telling people not to ship with them.
So Dano, are you OK with the company's trash reputation right now? Does service mean anything to ya? What is happening at Ground will effect Express; no one wants to ship FedEx at all around here!

 

[Working4the1%]

Every day I see more and more express packages here at ground. My/our stations busiest peak yet.

Run Forrest run

 

[Working4the1%]

I thought LMO was suspended for peak. But it would explain why peak has been easier this year than last.
Ground is a nightmare here; I am actively telling people not to ship with them.
So Dano, are you OK with the company's trash reputation right now? Does service mean anything to ya? What is happening at Ground will effect Express; no one wants to ship FedEx at all around here!

Judging from the Wednesday packages from last week in my truck and omnicron making a visit to our express station… Santa better stepup

 

[Cactus]

I thought LMO was suspended for peak. But it would explain why peak has been easier this year than last.
Ground is a nightmare here; I am actively telling people not to ship with them.
So Dano, are you OK with the company's trash reputation right now? Does service mean anything to ya? What is happening at Ground will effect Express; no one wants to ship FedEx at all around here!

Dano doesn’t care about service or doing the right thing for the customers. He’s just like everyone else in Memphis. It’s a just numbers, numbers and more meaningless numbers. Just so it looks good on paper. And FU too Fred!

 

[yadig]

When is peak supposed to hit? It’s been slow at ramp. We still run about 1-2 hrs late daily with less volume. We hv rental trailers all over the yard and haven’t used a single one. What’s happened to all our packages? I guess there in a ravine somewhere.

 

[bacha29]

I thought LMO was suspended for peak. But it would explain why peak has been easier this year than last.
Ground is a nightmare here; I am actively telling people not to ship with them.
So Dano, are you OK with the company's trash reputation right now? Does service mean anything to ya? What is happening at Ground will effect Express; no one wants to ship FedEx at all around here!

The Ground model is now nearly 40 years old and designed as a limited scale, limited market under the radar operation . It has changed little from it's basic design except for the fact that it's now being tasked with serving multiple high public exposure markets. Something it cannot and will never do all that well. It will continue to limp along with the usual bad press incidents with parking lots overflowing with backed up loaded trailers and boxes piled outside covered up with tarps. But will it change? Not a chance. Why? It's highly profitable compared to overall industry margins and Fat Freddy will gladly trade off all the bad components surrounding Ground in exchange for those good margins. The only thing that might provoke change would be overbuilt capacity combined with a steep and long duration recession.

 

[Fred's Myth]

The Ground model is now nearly 40 years old and designed as a limited scale, limited market under the radar operation . It has changed little from it's basic design except for the fact that it's now being tasked with serving multiple high public exposure markets. Something it cannot and will never do all that well. It will continue to limp along with the usual bad press incidents with parking lots overflowing with backed up loaded trailers and boxes piled outside covered up with tarps. But will it change? Not a chance. Why? It's highly profitable compared to overall industry margins and Fat Freddy will gladly trade off all the bad components surrounding Ground in exchange for those good margins. The only thing that might provoke change would be overbuilt capacity combined with a steep and long duration recession.

Or the Cancel Culture deciding to attack it.

 

[oldrps]

The Ground model is now nearly 40 years old and designed as a limited scale, limited market under the radar operation . It has changed little from it's basic design except for the fact that it's now being tasked with serving multiple high public exposure markets. Something it cannot and will never do all that well. It will continue to limp along with the usual bad press incidents with parking lots overflowing with backed up loaded trailers and boxes piled outside covered up with tarps. But will it change? Not a chance. Why? It's highly profitable compared to overall industry margins and Fat Freddy will gladly trade off all the bad components surrounding Ground in exchange for those good margins. The only thing that might provoke change would be overbuilt capacity combined with a steep and long duration recession.

What do you define as "limited scale". RPS was doing around 2 million packages a day before FedEx bought them. They do deliver around 13 million packages a day, that is not limited scale. It has changed a lot since it started, how many single van owner operators are there now? Do people still fill out pickup books? Are they in the same buildings as when they started? Did they go after residential packages, deliver 7 days a week when it started. You are clueless.

 

[falcon back]

Bacha is clueless.

What he said!!!

 

[NC man]

At lunch ,only 25 stops left,not spread out either.where are those 100 million extra pkgs this yr? Response flight late so may be helping,if not home by 1600 at latest

 

[bacha29]

What do you define as "limited scale". RPS was doing around 2 million packages a day before FedEx bought them. They do deliver around 13 million packages a day, that is not limited scale. It has changed a lot since it started, how many single van owner operators are there now? Do people still fill out pickup books? Are they in the same buildings as when they started? Did they go after residential packages, deliver 7 days a week when it started. You are clueless.

Your numbers simply reaffirm what I was talking about . 2 million a day was about the best it could do prior to the buyout. Now post buyout in the 13 million a day range. That came about as a result of Fat Freddy believing and wrongly that he could transform RPS in the form and design it was in to address the huge service gap that existed prior to the buyout . Now what do you have today? Yes you have contractors with multiple route but that was created by FDX in an effort to make them look like true "independent contractors" in an attempt to protect themselves from more law suits. Nevertheless they never have been and never will be true independent contractors thanks to that 1 year unilaterally drafted and implemented contract. Their task hasn't changed That is to find people in a shrinking labor market to go out there and match the production of the average UPS driver and do it for half the wage and zero benefits along with serving as a firewall against the incursion of a union represented workforce..... Don't believe me? Then you tell me....aside from the two tasks I mentioned just exactly what are contractors doing that Fat Freddy can't do himself. So who's the clueless one now?

 

[zeev]

Ground now competes with Amazon in the small package residential market and it’s no contest . Amazon’s algorithms direct truck freight to distribution centers and the worker ants leave at your door.