Podcast - Consultant Dean Maciuba analyses recent UPS, FedEx, USPS, Amazon developments

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