Well yes and no, since we have USPS (for now). I sell quite a bit online and the prices for anything below a certain size and weight are below UPS and FEDEX prices. With the caveat that the the backend hauling for USPS is generally contacted out to various companies including XPO and UPS.
Anything above the size and weight of a package will get shipped freight through any manner of independent carriers that take jobs from a dispatcher.
Well yes and no, since we have USPS (for now). I sell quite a bit online and the prices for anything below a certain size and weight are below UPS and FEDEX prices. With the caveat that the the backend hauling for USPS is generally contacted out to various companies including XPO and UPS.
Anything above the size and weight of a package will get shipped freight through any manner of independent carriers that take jobs from a dispatcher.
Thanks for the contribution. You are of course correct that there are (some) alternatives. I was mainly addressing the implication that unions are ‘bad’ because they are market distorting. Economies of scale mean the market for consumer package delivery tends toward oligopoly and is already distorted on the employer side.
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FedEx and UPS operate as an oligopoly in the US. Damn right workers need a strong union.
Well yes and no, since we have USPS (for now). I sell quite a bit online and the prices for anything below a certain size and weight are below UPS and FEDEX prices. With the caveat that the the backend hauling for USPS is generally contacted out to various companies including XPO and UPS.
Anything above the size and weight of a package will get shipped freight through any manner of independent carriers that take jobs from a dispatcher.
Well yes and no, since we have USPS (for now). I sell quite a bit online and the prices for anything below a certain size and weight are below UPS and FEDEX prices. With the caveat that the the backend hauling for USPS is generally contacted out to various companies including XPO and UPS.
Anything above the size and weight of a package will get shipped freight through any manner of independent carriers that take jobs from a dispatcher.
Thanks for the contribution. You are of course correct that there are (some) alternatives. I was mainly addressing the implication that unions are ‘bad’ because they are market distorting. Economies of scale mean the market for consumer package delivery tends toward oligopoly and is already distorted on the employer side.