Archived material Access restricted Article
Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Wed 04/30/2025 View Tue 04/29/2025 View Mon 04/28/2025 View Sun 04/27/2025 View Sat 04/26/2025 View Fri 04/25/2025 View Thu 04/24/2025
1
2025-04-30 Economy
UPS cutting 20K jobs due to fewer Amazon shipments
Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.
Posted by Skidmark 2025-04-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [225 views ]  Top

#1 As regional facilities increase, Amazon is running their own delivery service. Why would they need UPS? Can you say vertical monopoly boys and girls?
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-04-30 07:04||   2025-04-30 07:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Job losses based on tariffs? Did anybody tell Schumer or AOC?
Posted by Bobby 2025-04-30 08:46||   2025-04-30 08:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Apparently, UPS announced it decision to cut business with Amazon in January (before tariffs).
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-04-30 09:26||   2025-04-30 09:26|| Front Page Top

#4 
Let me give you another example

FEDX vs UPS vs. Amazon 2 day express shipping rates for a envelope with 2 pieces of paper in it, from Atlanta to Detroit.

FEDEX 2 day $12.60
UPS 2 Day $25.00++
Amazon $9.99 per order (depending on Item location)
Posted by NN2N1 2025-04-30 09:49||   2025-04-30 09:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Most of the “Business News” or stock market news is anti Trump. Just like the rest of the media.
Posted by Ebbuger Whuque4103 2025-04-30 11:13||   2025-04-30 11:13|| Front Page Top

#6 China Caves to Trump on Tariffs Again
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-04-30 11:51||   2025-04-30 11:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Amazon has been working towards this for some years now. In addition to "last mile" facilities they have some fairly sketchy drivers making local deliveries in personal vehicles.

At one point they were buying UPS trucks and repainting them in Amazon colors, but those seem to have been replaced by electric vehicles.

The drones will be more widely used as soon as they can convince the FAA and local authorities to okay them.
Posted by EMS Artifact 2025-04-30 12:17||   2025-04-30 12:17|| Front Page Top

#8 It seems like every time I go into a store and try to find something a sales clerk tells me I have to order it online. Well, that means I have to wait for it sometimes for weeks and also that I will have to pay for shipping. Wouldn't it be nice if there were stores where you could actually find stuff, buy it right then and there and take it home?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-04-30 13:25||   2025-04-30 13:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Try Bison Mercantile or Spotts lumber in Ashland.
Posted by Bman 2025-04-30 14:01||   2025-04-30 14:01|| Front Page Top

23:59 Kojo Unease1371
22:45 trailing wife
21:30 magpie
19:22 badanov
18:54 trailing wife
18:50 Pancho Poodle8452
18:29 trailing wife
18:14 trailing wife
17:47 Pancho Poodle8452
16:39 Procopius2k
16:37 Procopius2k
16:36 magpie
16:35 Procopius2k
15:56 Silentbrick
15:51 Pancho Poodle8452
15:34 Skidmark
15:33 Beavis
15:29 Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435
15:28 Skidmark
15:22 Thing From Snowy Mountain
14:44 Besoeker
14:01 Bman
13:56 Mullah Richard
13:52 Besoeker









Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com