FDX: any news on the USPS contract renewal
10-04-2012, 07:40 AM
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I don't see an annoucement until early Spring. It is effective Sept. 1, 2013. The USPS needs to give the New company time to get up to speed. If a New company does get the Contract. I think UPS is just in the competition to lower the yield for FDX. UPS will not win, they don't have the Lift to do the contract. Not even close. And no airplanes showing up. It takes at least a year to get ramped up if it was UPS. They don't have the Lift.
10-04-2012, 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Commando
I don't see an annoucement until early Spring. It is effective Sept. 1, 2013. The USPS needs to give the New company time to get up to speed. If a New company does get the Contract. I think UPS is just in the competition to lower the yield for FDX. UPS will not win, they don't have the Lift to do the contract. Not even close. And no airplanes showing up. It takes at least a year to get ramped up if it was UPS. They don't have the Lift.
10-04-2012, 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Shaggy1970
With their ground network I imagine that they don't need too much lift.
If UPS really wants the business, they will make it work.
The billion dollar question is, do they really want the business?
10-05-2012, 04:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Shaggy1970
With their ground network I imagine that they don't need too much lift.
10-05-2012, 05:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Shaggy1970
With their ground network I imagine that they don't need too much lift.
The USPS fills 30 DC-10's a DAY! And some mail is fast delivery to the west coast. UPS does not and will not ever have the capacity to do the Contract. Airplanes or Trucks. Facts. Not as of the near Future.
It is all about lowering the Profit margin FDX receives off the Contract.
UPS will not be Winning.
10-05-2012, 07:06 AM
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What we haul for them can't go by ground.
Same for all the Express/Ground changeover. If packages don't need to go by express - how many of them were already going by truck in the Express system? We shall see...
10-05-2012, 08:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Huck
It is indeed hard to believe that anything that's now going by aircraft is just some sort of mistake- that Fred hasn't realized in ten years they could have used trucks instead.
Same for all the Express/Ground changeover. If packages don't need to go by express - how many of them were already going by truck in the Express system? We shall see...
Same for all the Express/Ground changeover. If packages don't need to go by express - how many of them were already going by truck in the Express system? We shall see...
10-05-2012, 08:29 AM
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Easy ladies, wasn't trying to start a ****ing war. Fact is UPS ground network can touch every physical address in North America and they have been doing this over 100 years. They will figure out a way of moving anything and everything the USPS has if they want it. So for your sake I hope that you guys are right and I am wrong.
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