Thu, Jun 11, 2009
Says Ground-Based Service Wants To Limit Competition
United Parcel Service – the
100-year-old company parcel-delivery company, is seeking a
Congressional bailout that critics say is designed to limit
competition for overnight deliveries. According to the website
"BrownBailout.com”, and a campaign launched recently by
overnight delivery competitor, FedEx Express, that would leaving
Americans with less reliable next-day delivery network for critical
goods like medicines and essential inventory, according
to
The focus of the campaign is the 230-word bailout for UPS
written into the voluminous FAA Reauthorization Act of 2009
currently before Congress that would force FedEx Express,
UPS’ primary competitor for next-day deliveries, to operate
under a law not designed for airlines and express companies.
“In 1997 UPS experienced a system-wide strike that
crippled business and commerce across America. Now it wants
Congress to expose FedEx Express to that risk,” said Maury
Lane, FedEx Express spokesperson. “America relies too much on
the reliability and dependability of the FedEx Express
overnight-delivery network, and we can’t allow this bailout
to pass only because UPS wants to harm its main
competitor.”
"BrownBailout.com" says UPS and
FedEx Express are fundamentally different companies. UPS, which has
made substantial donations to many congressional campaigns, is a
trucking company, shipping 85 percent of its parcels on the ground.
FedEx Express is an airline, flying 85 percent of its packages in
the air.
“The operations of an overnight airline and that of a
traditional trucking company are radically different. You
can’t shoehorn an airline into trucking company’s rules
and still expect critical packages to arrive within hours on the
other side of the country,” Lane said.
“UPS is making a problem where one doesn’t exist.
This is a bailout, plain and simple, and the American people
won’t stand for it.”
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