Maple Grove MN Driver
Cocaine Mang!
UPS wants Business to Business deliveries
Residential deliveries are a resource drain
Residential deliveries are a resource drain
UPS loses Costco account
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They got rid of Granger and I was probably almost 100% commercial stops
evilleace
Well-Known Member
I think they will come back. The grainger on my route says it hasn't been a very smooth transition company wide for them.
Also I think grainger damages were a huge cost burden on us.
Grainger never packed their packages very well either
Brown287
Im not the Mail Man!
Bottom line is that these customers aren’t coming back…and I’m sorry but Joe Joe’s tackle shop out on Route 7 doesn’t count. Remember Cabella’s….I use to deliver a ton of their packages then they were bought by one of our old customers “Bass Pro Shop” and well we all know how that story ended. We don’t deliver their stuff anymore. What about Victoria’s Secret, lost them to FDX too. Yeah this is working out great for us ain’t it.
I sure do miss trying those Victoria's secret outfits on...
Overpaid Union Thug
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The pandemic has prompted plenty of shippers to switch. Many struggled last year and, despite preferring UPS, couldn’t resist switching to the cheaper option. Many were supposed to be temporary but haven’t felt the need to switch back. Our service has been slacking in so many areas of the country so why pay more? And our sales dept has never been on point so….we’re pretty screwed. Especially with this CEO. Seems like her first move was to throw in the towel and cater to Amazon and focus the rest of our energy on higher profit accounts while the company’s overall footprint shrinks and reputation for service suffers.
We need to drop Amazon right freaking now
Brown287
Im not the Mail Man!
Greatest UPS story ever….center manager calls a PCM, proceeds to say we need to start getting signatures for VS due to theft, I chime in “I don’t know about you guys but size 6 and below was already a signature required to me”.
Yeet
Not gonna let ‘em catch the Midnight Rider
Partially correct. We used to pull around 8 loads from Grainger daily. I was asked to cover a TDP driver one day who was behind so I covered his Grainger. One load. FedEx however was everywhere in their yard.
I have no clue what this company is up to
Yeet
Not gonna let ‘em catch the Midnight Rider
Me either brother but I can honestly say this is the first time in my 20 year career where I wasn’t sure this company was going to last another 20 years.
I think you're getting rid of big shippers with low profit margin so I have to spend money on expansion.
Yeet
Not gonna let ‘em catch the Midnight Rider
That makes sense but what doesn’t make sense is we have spent over 100 mil completely gutting and renovating my hub with automation technology. So we ARE paying for expansion but dumping big contracts anyway?
That happened in Columbus years ago they spent big money expanding the hub to accommodate Victoria's secrets and we lost that account
Yeet
Not gonna let ‘em catch the Midnight Rider
Remember when we had the Hanes account? I was a pickoff back then and we used to get huge drops of Hanes coming down the belt every day. We called it the panty drop. Good times.
BrownSnowFlake
Well-Known Member
We only make money on air. We're lucky to break even on ground and that's if Snuffy McLoader doesn't smash it to bits or put it on a truck going to the other side of the county.
Obviously they're making lots of money somewhere
BrownSnowFlake
Well-Known Member
Big girls need lovin' too
Overpaid Union Thug
Well-Known Member
We could if they weren’t $11.26 billion in revenue and we hadn’t already let go of so many other accounts. Otherwise we’d be “much smaller, not better” to our stock holders. We’re so screwed.
