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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 4554548" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>In the last 40 years has Express ever had an outside workforce take a significant amount of volume permanently away from it?  MrFedEx used to say that they were eventually going to give Ground freight and kill hours.  Dano used to laugh and scoff at that.  Looks like it's happening.  They're giving more in pay but taking it back in hours.  That has been their MO forever.  Whatever they give here they take away there.  If fulltimers come in later and have to be back for the reload by a certain time, then where is the OT coming from except for the exceptions noted?  Even in stations with extended rts those rts are losing freight to Ground.  Not complicating anything, it's the new normal.</p></blockquote><p></p>