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07-20-2013, 11:52 AM

StarClipper

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UPS and FedEx

So here is a question for all of you guys. What would be the outcome if UPS and FedEx were to merge? Or if FedEx bought UPS and vice versa? Would it be good or bad annd why? Please absolutely no bashing. And for the guys that think it could never happen, just any is possible in the world we leave in.

07-20-2013, 12:08 PM

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I don't know what would happen, but I know what they would call it after the merger.......FedUps. sorry, old joke. I couldn't resist.

07-20-2013, 12:08 PM

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It would be interesting.

07-20-2013, 12:15 PM

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I think you'd see at least 1000 furloughed if the FedEx management team stayed on, and at least 2500 if the UPS management team stayed on. I hope they would get rid of the UPS managler pilots.

757's would be the new "ATR"....

I think bad for everyone from couriers, truck drivers, hubites, ramp agents, mechs, pilots, middle managers but probably good for the upper VP's.

07-20-2013, 12:19 PM

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Hard to believe US Anti-Trust Law would even allow this to be discussed on any level, a duopoly exists already and can't imagine a monopoly being approved.

07-20-2013, 12:23 PM

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4A2B beat me to it. It was difficult for UPS and DHL to get though Antitrust Laws. Imagine FedEx and UPS. Impossible.

07-20-2013, 12:27 PM

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I don't know what would happen, but I know what they would call it after the merger.......FedUps. sorry, old joke. I couldn't resist.

LMBO havent heard that one. Its funny though

07-20-2013, 12:33 PM

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4A2B beat me to it. It was difficult for UPS and DHL to get though Antitrust Laws. Imagine FedEx and UPS. Impossible.

Impossible is a thing of the past in this industry. Money talks everything else walks. If one company were to go bankrupt and was on the verge on disappearing for good, to save thousands of job, all that anti trust law would be on the back burner. I'm sure a merger would be approved.

07-20-2013, 12:40 PM

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What industry are you talking about ? If you think this is about an airline merger, it would not be. These 2 Company's are so much more, now if you want to talk about the Express Unit and not the whole FDX Corp, maybe there some options but UPS is all or none without the separate operating Company structure that purple has. Competition is good for the each Company's health, imagine the bargaining power of working for the only game in town with no comparable s ? As Labor, as a salesman as the Customer? Would never happen in my opinion and if they tried it would not be approved either.