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I couldn't read this. Company he founded to save the world--literally? Largest transportation network ever built, what? And like his image drawn in to make h
by daniel-cussen 5y ago
I couldn't read this. Company he founded to save the world--literally? Largest transportation network ever built, what?
And like his image drawn in to make him look 43 but with white hair, and a bunch of airplane tails?
Fellatory news article.
> In March 2020, at age 75, Fred Smith should have been winding down his legendary career as CEO of FedEx. Then Covid-19 hit, everyone’s life turned upside down, and the company he founded had to save the world—“literally,” he says, with no small amount of passion.
Like what? Is he a hero? A Roman Law hero?
> “We, and UPS, and to a lesser degree the Postal Service and a company called DHL, literally kept the world operating,” Mr. Smith declares. “I don’t think that what our people did is understood or appreciated nearly to the extent it should be.”
A lot of those communications went digital, in fact, that's the con going on here. Digital communications took over to a huge degree, so his company is doing worse, so that's why he's paying for a fellatory article on the wall street journal blog, he wants to create buzz around his company.
560,000 employees in 220 countries? I thought it was 190 countries, what the fuck? He doesn't have 560,000 employees either.
- brianwawok 5y agoI don’t think package handling business is down? First class mail is down which is bad for USPS, but e-commerce is up every year which is good for UPS and Fedex (though Amazon e-commerce is mostly using their own network so not really part of the equation )
- briffle 5y agoAnd USPS still handles more in a day that either of those two do in a year.
- brianwawok 5y agoVolume yes, though UPS and Fedex (based on a google search) both did a bit more in revenue. Something like 77B vs 84B vs 92B
- tristor 5y ago> And USPS still handles more in a day that either of those two do in a year. Volume-wise, yes. But also most of the volume handled by USPS is bulk mailers that nobody wants to receive in the first place.
- daniel-cussen 5y agoI have to stop you right there, I have received spam in the mail and I am somebody and I did like receiving some of it. The California magazines...good paper, sure they're marketed to women, but get this no rapey cookie "consent" contract, like those are just disgusting I hate getting asked for consent it means I'm about to get fucked. Every single time you get asked for consent it's because you're about to get fucked. That's fine for a once-in-a-lifetime thing like a marriage contract, OK then I understand giving consent to getting fucked, by my future wife, perfectly understandable and good that there's a contract. But for clicking on a link in a forum? So that's why I liked those magazines, yeah they were trying to distort your sense of a good price by showing prices inflated by two orders of magnitude but at least they didn't target accurately. That's good, I don't want accurate targeting on advertisement aimed at me any more than I want accurate targeting on pistols aimed at me.
- daniel-cussen 5y agoOh you're right about that, ecommerce picked up a lot. I was thinking about documents. Well I'm wrong sometimes, I accept that. Ecommerce, didn't think of that.