• Semisimian@startrek.website
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    3 days ago

    "14,000 roles primarily in management, alongside around 34,000 cuts within its operational workforce”

    This should bode well going into the package shipping season. But hey, at least the stock price went up after the announcement.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    Is this one “due to AI”, too, like the one at Amazon?

    This, just before Christmas, is not a good sign. Consumers have run out of “disposable income”, whatever that is. Car payment delinquencies are up, too. Remember, the stock market is not the economy.

  • Hellinabucket@lemmy.world
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    I worked for ups for about 3 months before they laid off our entire shift. I already knew it was coming, more than half of what I did was unload trucks in Ohio that had been loaded in Texas and reload them for either Georgia or Kentucky. They eventually just started routing them all to the station in Kentucky, where they were already driving within 25 miles of to get to me in Ohio.

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      Amazon is its own thing. It’s not really a shipping company. And they’ve had their own layoff issues. Consumers spending less affects everyone.

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    According to their last earnings, domestic margins were down due to decreased spending. International margins were up due to increased spending. They might be seeing further decrease in domestic spending coming into the holiday season.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    Wait until they start running other services as if they’re businesses. You can talk about the days when some roads weren’t toll roads.

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      This is UPS, a private business, not USPS, a weird Frankenstein creation that’s kind of a business and kind of a government service.