Threat of Amazon in the package delivery biz
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Amazon views ups as a customer. ..and maybe they view fedex as a future takeover target? Who knows..
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If you want to compare prices, you need to figure your costs of driving to get your stuff. It's expensive to drive, and very highly subsidized by us, the taxpayers, via the US gov't. That keeps your personal costs way down.
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Why would a regional pilot fly for amazon at that rate, when they can go almost anywhere else and get much higher pay???
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Opportunity cost of getting your stuff now vs. waiting.
Also, we all pay per-gallon fuel excise taxes into the highway trust find...
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