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<blockquote data-quote="Northbaypkg" data-source="post: 4730608" data-attributes="member: 58387">There&#039;s only a handful of companies that dominate a market in the fashion of the two you named.&nbsp; You could probably only add a couple more, Apple, Microsoft, and ..... whatever.&nbsp; Point is, they make up .000001 percent of the total number of companies out there.&nbsp; There&#039;s a much bigger percentage of sectors with high demand that have healthy competition going, FedEx and UPS being one of them.&nbsp; Difference with our market is, with the e-com burst there is simply too much growth for anyone company to handle.&nbsp; See the peak season of 2013, where both UPS and FedEx were so overwhelmed that they both had their lowest on time delivery percentage ever.&nbsp;&nbsp; Both companies can&#039;t even expand fast enough to meet demand.&nbsp; And this is even with Amazon delivering 45% of their own items now.&nbsp; Your last statement is exactly the reason we UPS drivers have more stringent demands placed on us by management.&nbsp; And which is why my original quote stands, the demands are not stringent if you are out there working.&nbsp; If you can&#039;t do it, you don&#039;t make it.&nbsp; That way we DO get more of the drivers that can do the work in 5 hours, not 8.&nbsp; Meanwhile from what I see in my area at FedEx ground, you guys gotta put whoever you can get out there.&nbsp; And then when you do get someone good you gotta pray they stay for while before they find out that they&#039;re being under compensated for all their hard work.&nbsp; A driver that spends 4 years driving at FedEx ground is simply wasting his time, whereas if he put that same time driving at UPS he is actually able to afford a good life.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Northbaypkg, post: 4730608, member: 58387"] There's only a handful of companies that dominate a market in the fashion of the two you named. You could probably only add a couple more, Apple, Microsoft, and ..... whatever. Point is, they make up .000001 percent of the total number of companies out there. There's a much bigger percentage of sectors with high demand that have healthy competition going, FedEx and UPS being one of them. Difference with our market is, with the e-com burst there is simply too much growth for anyone company to handle. See the peak season of 2013, where both UPS and FedEx were so overwhelmed that they both had their lowest on time delivery percentage ever. Both companies can't even expand fast enough to meet demand. And this is even with Amazon delivering 45% of their own items now. Your last statement is exactly the reason we UPS drivers have more stringent demands placed on us by management. And which is why my original quote stands, the demands are not stringent if you are out there working. If you can't do it, you don't make it. That way we DO get more of the drivers that can do the work in 5 hours, not 8. Meanwhile from what I see in my area at FedEx ground, you guys gotta put whoever you can get out there. And then when you do get someone good you gotta pray they stay for while before they find out that they're being under compensated for all their hard work. A driver that spends 4 years driving at FedEx ground is simply wasting his time, whereas if he put that same time driving at UPS he is actually able to afford a good life. [/QUOTE]

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