FEDEX UPS Follow-up

I received 2 responses from my previous entry on the FedEx UPS fiasco. Interestingly, a blogger using the name Cager & Maris (as it appears in my responses sections) states the following:

"FedEx predominatly does business using aircraft. UPS predominatly does business using trucks. That's the difference in why FedEx is under one set of laws and UPS is under another set of laws."

My original argument still stands. If FedEx just went away, would the shipping world cease to do business. The original intention of the RLA was because railroads were a lifeblood of this country. If the railroads stopped working, no automobiles would be delivered to dealerships anywhere. If the Air Traffic Controllers stopped working, ALL airports would shut down. FedEx and UPS both would be shut down. If FedEx Pilots stopped working, what would happen. The world would run to UPS, or the USPS or elsewhere. Cager & Maris did not convince me that simply because a majority of their business is done by plane, that they qualify for some seriously restrictive labor laws.

I'm further bothered by the "bailout" term they use. The've even gone so far as to register the websites UPSBAILOUT.COM and BROWNBAILOUT.COM. When I first heard of these sites, I thought UPS was in trouble and looking for the kind of help that the banks and auto companies were looking for. I was wrong. It was FedEx looking to make UPS look bad. UPS doesn't have a website called FedExMonopoly.com or some other silly name. If you want their side of it, you go to UPS.COM and then to their NEWSROOM page.

I'm no fan of the bailouts that the Feds handed out like door prizes, but this isn't, in my opinion, a bailout. This is an attempt to level the playing field. Again, the RLA was for companies and jobs that, if they went away by strike or mass walkout, would stop the flow of goods and services in the United States. With the exception of the ATC and the railroads, I don't see very many others who would qualify.

I encourage all to read the 2 responses in the previous UPS FedEx post