Dean Maciuba, Managing Partner (USA) for Crossroads Parcel Consulting, discusses the ramifications of the UPS - Teamsters deal, FedEx's cost-cutting, USPS reform, and Amazon delivery contractors.
- Impact of UPS's deal with Teamsters
- How UPS was travelling prior to striking a deal with the union
- FedEx's efforts to reduce its operating costs
- Amalgamation of FedEx's Ground and Express networks
- FedEx's improved competitiveness with UPS
- UPS parcel volume loss
- Losing low-margin residential e-commerce business
- Potential for lay-offs at UPS
- UPS's focus on high-revenue express business
- FedEx's low-cost contractor model
- Potential for UPS-Teamsters deal to raise wages across the sector
- Earning potential of Amazon drivers
- The war for talent in the last mile
- Amazon remuneration of Delivery Service Partners
- Employee/contractor classification issue
- FedEx's experiences with mis-classification
- Dynamic pricing and surcharges in the USA
- The costs behind peak season
- Granularity of dynamic pricing
- Lack of transparency in parcel pricing
- US Postal Service reorganisation under PMG Louis DeJoy
- Volume decline at USPS
- Changes to USPS ground services
- USPS investing more in sales and communications
- Amazon's encroachment into non-metro delivery
- Rural delivery surcharges
- Peak season preparations
- The extension of peak season
