Originally Posted by Tango Uniform View Post
Sounds awfully familiar. Go back to the early 1980’s. UPS had Orion, Ryan, and Evergreen flying UPS jets. Then one day in 1988 decided to bring it all in house.
Originally Posted by
gumpscheck
I heard it was more like the FAA told UPS to bring it in-house. I am surprised that AMZ and DHL have been able to get away with the system as it is now. If I was FDX or UPS, I would have raised the BS flag long ago.
Wonder if it was to be able to control strike capabilities or route changes amongst its contractors which would interrupt its fairly recent (a few years) next-day guaranteed services. Control seems to be everything no matter how you spread it.