Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Who was president? Who profited due to the strike? Who is RPS?

During the time of the strike the president of the union of Ron Carey. The strike had caused alot of caos but at the same time many companies profited off of the strike. US Postal, Airborne Express, Federal Express, RPS all benifitted off of UPS's strike due to business that UPS had being split between all of those companies.

Daily Parcel Service (Pre-strike totals)-
  1. UPS deliveres 12 million
  2. FedEx deliveres2.8 million
  3. U.S Postal Service deliveres 3 million
  4. Airborne Express deliveres 1.3 million

RPS - is the countries second largest small package ground carrier, since the strike it has increased to 1.5 million packages a day, a 20 percent increase over volume.