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The expected response from UPS and Fedex is "if you don't use us for the cities, we'll refuse to take your harder deliveries. You need to be all or nothing."
by martincmartin 10y ago
The expected response from UPS and Fedex is "if you don't use us for the cities, we'll refuse to take your harder deliveries. You need to be all or nothing."
Or the equivalent: "we see the writing on the wall, so we're going to charge you an arm and a leg for each harder delivery, to make the most money before you handle those deliveries on your own too."
- swalsh 10y agoall or nothing, or.... you know, just raise the price.
- bduerst 10y agoPretty much. This move decreases Amazon's buying power with them so they can just raise rates accordingly.
- sangnoir 10y agoConsidering that FedEx & UPS handover their "hard deliveries" to the USPS, I don't think Amazon is too worried. The USPS already handles Sunday deliveries for Amazon, they will probably expand that program if FedEx or UPS start getting too greedy.
- snowwrestler 10y agoI wonder if they can make that response. I know Fedex has argued at least once in court that they are a common carrier, and to my understanding, common carriers have some limits on how they can discriminate price or service based on who the customer is.