Comments on: The Difference Between Integrated and Integral

By: FedEx 4 Life

FedEx 4 Life — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:51:47 +0000

Can’t argue with that! Let’s outsource the driver to the consumer and problem solved!

At least Al gave us trees.

By: chuckmuth

chuckmuth — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:04:47 +0000

It’s not “pretty simple.” It’s a stretch – of mammoth proportions. If I absolutely, positively have to have it from Las Vegas to Baltimore tomorrow morning, I’ll drive the package to the airport myself (Or I’ll call UPS).

By: FedEx 4 Life

FedEx 4 Life — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:54:30 +0000

It takes time to do what you are suggestion, thus, impacting the air express service. No timely trucks, no timely planes, no timely deliveries. It’s pretty simple.

By: chuckmuth

chuckmuth — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:41:47 +0000

Who cares, “FedEx4Life”? That’s not the point. The point is you claim that if FedEx Express unionizes and goes out on strike that there’d be no way to pick up and deliver packages to and from the airport. As the average person is now learning, that’s bull. FedEx could perform said services without even going outside the company to hire replacement drivers. Your labor strife armageddon argument just doesn’t hold up when weighed against, you know, the facts and stuff.

By: FedEx 4 Life

FedEx 4 Life — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:35:28 +0000

Really? So you’re telling me you can look up a FedEx Ground tracking number in COSMOS and you can deliver FedEx Ground packages?

By: C.S

C.S — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:50:18 +0000

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FedEx 4 Life : I would agree *if* they were the same company. FedEx Ground and FedEx Express are separate companies with different tracking systems. A FedEx Express employee cannot pick up and deliver FedEx Ground shipments and vice versa.

I beg to differ. I'm a courier at Fedex Express and we have Ground packages in our dropboxes all the time.We transport those packages to our station and a ground driver comes by our station each day at 5:30 and picks them up.So Express and Ground do work together more than you and Fred would like the public to think. Want me to take a picture and send it to you?

By: FedEx 4 Life

FedEx 4 Life — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:48:11 +0000

I would agree *if* they were the same company. FedEx Ground and FedEx Express are separate companies with different tracking systems. A FedEx Express employee cannot pick up and deliver FedEx Ground shipments and vice versa.

By: C.S

C.S — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:21:36 +0000

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FedEx 4 Life : When FedEx came along and “invented” the Air Express Carrier, it essentially provided a “blueprint” for an air operation under the RLA. When UPS decided to get into the overnight business, they chose to integrate their air operation into their ground operation. As FedEx grew, it decided to keep each opco independent. Now, UPS is claiming that they want to “level the playing field.” Why should FedEx have to pay for business decisions?? (Also, I thought Al Gore invented the tree.)

Didn't Fedex Express use some of it's profits to purchase RPS and turn it into Fedex Ground back in the 90's? The express carrier status should have been lifted immediately after that point.

By: FedEx 4 Life

FedEx 4 Life — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:21:05 +0000

When FedEx came along and “invented” the Air Express Carrier, it essentially provided a “blueprint” for an air operation under the RLA. When UPS decided to get into the overnight business, they chose to integrate their air operation into their ground operation. As FedEx grew, it decided to keep each opco independent.

Now, UPS is claiming that they want to “level the playing field.” Why should FedEx have to pay for business decisions??

(Also, I thought Al Gore invented the tree.)

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Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:26:01 +0000

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