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UPS used to have photographs on the wall of a truck with a tree growing up through the bumper of some past competitor who had been larger than UPS that failed over night with the reminder that it could happen to us.
I think that was REA, Railway Express Agency, wasn't it?
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Pretty good lesson for UPS and FDX about what can happen to a company that loses ground in it's high paying express products, doesn't adapt to technology (trains...in the mid 70's?) and can't play nice with it's unions.