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Old 05-30-2018, 11:34 AM
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Heard that FedEx views Amazon as a competitor while UPS views them as a customer. This has dramatically driven up UPS’s daily volume. 2DA (afternoon) volume levels are really high these days.
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Old 06-09-2018, 07:12 AM
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Old 06-09-2018, 07:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Precontact View Post
Heard that FedEx views Amazon as a competitor while UPS views them as a customer. This has dramatically driven up UPS’s daily volume. 2DA (afternoon) volume levels are really high these days.
Hmm.. I think it might be the other way around.

Amazon views ups as a customer. ..and maybe they view fedex as a future takeover target? Who knows..

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Old 06-09-2018, 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by BoilerUP View Post
I have found stuff cheaper than Amazon recently from Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Target, Cabelas and Tractor Supply.

I would have to *gasp* actually get off my behind and *sigh* drive to the store to get it, though.
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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Originally Posted by midnightshuttle View Post
AMAZON will take over the world with LOW paid pilots flying airbuses that they pull out of the garbage and paint.

Brown and Purple will be overrun by a co with the 3500hr 75K per year regional transplants flying the bus in 5-7yrs
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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Old 06-09-2018, 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by atpcliff View Post
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.

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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Originally Posted by BoilerUP View Post
Opportunity cost of getting your stuff now vs. waiting.

Also, we all pay per-gallon fuel excise taxes into the highway trust find...
The fuel taxes didn't cover the costs of the roads we used on day one. Now the gap is much worse.
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Originally Posted by atpcliff View Post
The fuel taxes didn't cover the costs of the roads we used on day one. Now the gap is much worse.
Here in NY, a huge percentage of the fuel taxes (and tolls) are diverted to fund discounted mass transit.
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