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12-25-2019, 05:39 AM
#181
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Originally Posted by wjcandee
The bulk of the business was ABX's to lose, and they did.
Amazon was doing this shortly after UPS had screwed it by not delivering on Christmas day even though UPS had melted down due to its own mistakes and was drenched in Amazon packages. That UPS would do that to Amazon was a wake-up call. Amazon wanted reliability, reliability, reliability, and to put its own reputation in the hands of companies who couldn't give a crap about that reputation -- as illustrated by what UPS did -- was no longer going to work. As a step towards developing a Third Channel that would care about Amazon's success, Amazon created their own solid in-house ground line-haul network, with the USPS as the last mile, which was a big success for packages coming from DCs within a day's drive, and today handles the vast bulk of those packages. Project Aerosmith was somebody's idea to see what it would cost to layer an air network onto the ground network, to handle packages from farther away, and to see how reliable such a 2-day air operation could be.
So to strike Amazon illegally at Peak was to shoot the potential golden goose in the head. Prove you're willing intentionally to be unreliable in Peak, and then take out ads saying that Amazon may not be able to get customers their packages this Christmas, when reliability was the whole basis for the effort, then it makes sense that not too many eggs should be placed in that basket. It's a shame because ABX has an exceptional group of experienced pilots who were accustomed to the rigors of an express operation, and who appear to have flown this Peak with a high degree of schedule fidelity. Let's hope that in the New Year, ABX straightens out its toxic labor environment, Mr. S goes on to a new career elsewhere, and they can grow once again.
Amazon was doing this shortly after UPS had screwed it by not delivering on Christmas day even though UPS had melted down due to its own mistakes and was drenched in Amazon packages. That UPS would do that to Amazon was a wake-up call. Amazon wanted reliability, reliability, reliability, and to put its own reputation in the hands of companies who couldn't give a crap about that reputation -- as illustrated by what UPS did -- was no longer going to work. As a step towards developing a Third Channel that would care about Amazon's success, Amazon created their own solid in-house ground line-haul network, with the USPS as the last mile, which was a big success for packages coming from DCs within a day's drive, and today handles the vast bulk of those packages. Project Aerosmith was somebody's idea to see what it would cost to layer an air network onto the ground network, to handle packages from farther away, and to see how reliable such a 2-day air operation could be.
So to strike Amazon illegally at Peak was to shoot the potential golden goose in the head. Prove you're willing intentionally to be unreliable in Peak, and then take out ads saying that Amazon may not be able to get customers their packages this Christmas, when reliability was the whole basis for the effort, then it makes sense that not too many eggs should be placed in that basket. It's a shame because ABX has an exceptional group of experienced pilots who were accustomed to the rigors of an express operation, and who appear to have flown this Peak with a high degree of schedule fidelity. Let's hope that in the New Year, ABX straightens out its toxic labor environment, Mr. S goes on to a new career elsewhere, and they can grow once again.
12-25-2019, 06:57 AM
#182
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Joined APC: Sep 2005
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Originally Posted by wjcandee
Amazon was doing this shortly after UPS had screwed it by not delivering on Christmas day even though UPS had melted down due to its own mistakes and was drenched in Amazon packages. That UPS would do that to Amazon was a wake-up call. Amazon wanted reliability, reliability, reliability, and to put its own reputation in the hands of companies who couldn't give a crap about that reputation -- as illustrated by what UPS did -- was no longer going to work.
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