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<blockquote data-quote="Undertow" data-source="post: 5655223" data-attributes="member: 4550">If the company senses there&#039;s any chance at all that there&#039;s big enough pockets of the rank and file wavering, or worse, panicking, as we&#039;ve unfortunately witnessed on occasion in these forums, then it&#039;s a good bet it would let the clock run late even if it did mean getting very close to the deadline.&nbsp; Plus it&#039;s possible that those in the posh C-suite want to take a long look at what accounts are and aren&#039;t deverting volume in an attempt to assess which big customers really don&#039;t want to use FedEx under any circumstances so they gain a better idea of who they can and can&#039;t play hardball with on rates next time around.Two weeks ago, it&#039;s possible some PR firm convinced the company that chances were better than 50/50 that O&#039;Brien would crash and burn once he made the rounds doing TV interviews and now that that prediction hasn&#039;t been realized, Atlanta might feel there&#039;s no obvious weak links in the chain to try and attack with so little runway left to get any other scheme to liftoff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Undertow, post: 5655223, member: 4550"] If the company senses there's any chance at all that there's big enough pockets of the rank and file wavering, or worse, panicking, as we've unfortunately witnessed on occasion in these forums, then it's a good bet it would let the clock run late even if it did mean getting very close to the deadline. Plus it's possible that those in the posh C-suite want to take a long look at what accounts are and aren't deverting volume in an attempt to assess which big customers really don't want to use FedEx under any circumstances so they gain a better idea of who they can and can't play hardball with on rates next time around. Two weeks ago, it's possible some PR firm convinced the company that chances were better than 50/50 that O'Brien would crash and burn once he made the rounds doing TV interviews and now that that prediction hasn't been realized, Atlanta might feel there's no obvious weak links in the chain to try and attack with so little runway left to get any other scheme to liftoff. [/QUOTE]

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