Not to mention they could save a boat load transporting more stuff over the ground network. Stuff we load onto a feeder here has to go on a plane with them.
And who picked up the slack when Fedex couldnt handle Amazon stuff at the last minute because they were overloaded? Ditto we did lol.
*chants* UPS UPS UPS
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It depends on how much them being unionized would affect their rates. The whole reason Express remains separate from Ground is to keep the union out. If the Ground contractors began to run Express, their operations would grow large enough that it could be possible to start making targeted organizing efforts on the larger contractors, and I doubt FedEx would be able to just drop them and replace them so easily.
They don't need to combine really. It can be done one step prior with IT. Much of the overlap will be done away with through sort technology. Packages for a single geographical location can be routed to a single van. They are starting it with the integration of Smartpost and I'm certain it will continue through the systems.
Test that theory.
Yesterday I kept seeing a Ground guy in a Uhaul type minivan and there would always be HD girl in a soccer mom van not far behind. I finally asked her what's up and she said she'd been following him all day. I thought that was weird.
It doesn't prevent the opcos from combining. It would end his RLA status though. That and the profitability of the Ground Scam is why he keeps the 2 opcos separate.
So if Ground were run like Express there would be no profit at all?
UPS seems to make a profit combining their air and ground networks. I don't know why FedEx couldn't do the same.
ton off of international overnight shipments through express and now that we own tnt those profits will began to rise even more. 
