Hope Can You Believe This Change!! Federal Express stock in Freefall

Fox Business ^ | 3/06/09 | Vanity

[library user]

[muawiyah]

Well, the government subsidized mail service came to an end way back in 1973. It's in all the history books.

Since I've read all of them I'll clue you in ~ Congress usually approved a temporary rate increase for the duration of the economic dislocation.

[Snickering Hound]

FedEx has never been able to find my house and I’ve had to go to their warehouse to pick up my packages.

UPS has never had that problem.

Let’em crash.

[ejonesie22]

Fed ex was my favorite for a while, much better than UPS. But like all things they have slipped into the morass of mediocrity we seem to be suffering from...

[jarofants]

Fed-X and UPS should merge and become Fed-Up!!!

[Shelayne]

I just jokingly told my mom that I’m going to print out flyers that say exactly that and put them on the windshields or every car that *still* has an Obama sticker on it. I think I’d add a little “Thanks alot, Doofus” on there as well, for good measure.

I doubt I’d waste the ink, but there would be some slight satisfation in that.

[ejonesie22]

Not handy...

I guess I could “Fed ex” it to you, but I doubt you would get it now;-)

[tcrlaf]

This whole Hopey! Changey! thing isn’t working out to well for ANYONE outside of government....

[muawiyah]

Alas, USPS does not have unlimited cash. I doubt Congress will let it go out of business, but they’ll take some heavy duty paycuts (just like they did back in the Great Depression when their predecessor agency was known as Post Office Department).

[umgud]

Nationalize them and let the US Postal Service take them over. /s

[Lou Budvis]

Very Funny

[muawiyah]

Few of them will understand the long words.

Then there those who can read and use knives ~ they'll cut you boy.

[BenLurkin]

[beaversmom]

On the radio propaganda bi-hourly segment—good news is that 200,000 more government jobs have been created—woo hoo!

[hatfieldmccoy]

Brokers read my post-— came in to pick over the bones—weak end of day recovery now it’s just tanked 17% in the last 48 hours

[Lucky9teen]

Will they merge with UPS and become

[Sloth]

Tom Hanks is going to be pissed when he gets back from that island and finds out what happened to his company stock options.

[muawiyah]

Only if you fire all the managers at USPS first. In my experience the UPS managers are a cut above most of the rest in the mail, baggage and express business.

Fed-Ex has a bunch of "passed over for promotion" types from the "other mail, baggage and express" companies.

BTW, part of my plan to privatize USPS included a leveraged buyout of UPS.

[allmost]

If you say so...
FTC Report: U.S. Postal Service Needs More Freedom and Less Protection Budget & Tax News > June 2008

[Paladin2]

Thanks, but my browser doesn’t do yahoo at the lower level computers in the house. Some issue with cookies or active x or something (no viri or other computer takeover issues to date though.)