back to your orig. question: I think things will pick up 5 years from now when all the baby boomers hitting 60--who f-ed up my career and everyone else's by getting age 65 passed--finally go the heck to their friggin retirement village in Pam Beach to die.

Meanwhile, FDX and UPS, and all the majors are going to be stagnant. And then comes the part about getting stuck at a regional for 5 years.

Things might get good in 5 years, though, as long as some crazy fundamentalist doesn't do anything stupid, and as long as wall street can't get their mergers through before we get a democrat president this fall.