UPS vs. FEDEX: Ultimate Whiteboard Remix

Starting with MSNBC, Reason has started airing commercials on cable
news channels with the goal of bringing a new audience to Reason.com
and Reason magazine

For our first TV spot, we chose a slimmed-down version of our popular
and acclaimed 2009 video, "UPS vs. FEDEX (Ultimate Whiteboard Remix)",
which was nominated for a digital National Magazine Award and explores
the way in which federal labor classifications lead firms to jockey
for political favors rather than customer satisfaction.

You may have heard the UPS is in quite the political fight with FEDEX.
Though both are package-delivery companies, they're governed by
totally different federal labor rules. As a result, UPS's workforce is
much more heavily unionized than FEDEX's—and more than twice as
expensive.

So now UPS is trying to get FEDEX reclassified under federal law as a
way of screwing a competitor. That's horrendous, but it also makes a
sick kind of business sense. And it also reveals the real villain: A
government that is big enough to absolutely, positively guarantee it
can screw any business. Overnight.

"UPS Vs. FEDEX" was produced by Meredith Bragg and Nick Gillespie (who
also hosts).

Approximately 1.5 minute long.

This video is based on "Using Unions as Weapons," by Mercatus Center
economist Veronique de Rugy, which appeared in the October 2009 print
edition of Reason. Read that article at
http://reason.com/archives/2009/09/28/using-unions-as-weapons

For downloadable version of this and all other Reason.tv videos go to
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[gunforme]

@dmana3172 I have the opposite experience. UPS gets my packages to me sooner than Fedex and in better shape. The Fedex drivers in my area are abusive with the packages and can't seem to keep a delivery schedule. However, this may just depend on the area also. Maybe Fedex is more efficient in your area, but in my area their getting worse than the USPS and I didn't think that was possible.

[gunforme]

All else aside, I personally prefer UPS since they have been MUCH faster in my area compared to Fedex. I can't stand getting a package by Fedex. They are not only slower, but the drivers are rough with the packages, and delivery dates change all the time even with the weather is not a problem. If there is inclement, I can understand. But even in great weather their website gives me an expected date and then changes it 2 days later to another delivery day. They are not very effecient.

[fatspec]

@dmana3172 the reason you get your residential packages late is because UPS delivers commercial packages first, than does scheduled pickups and finally deliver to the residential on their route, 1 UPS driver does the job of three FedEx drivers.

[blowupuate13]

@erin

[erincliff75]

Do you realize that FexEx employees receive ZERO health benefits from the company they help make a profit? Ohhhh,yeah, baby! Gimme some cheaper labor and kill those unions. UPS pays its workers well and still profits billions. Why is that a bad thing? Do you have any idea how hard the work is?

[MrCards13]

Wow they would be blaming unions. UPS workers get more benefits and higher wages because if unions.

[mkesw1]

This is why more and more jobs are being outsourced to China. Unions are parasites and they are killing the USA. Hopefully the government defaults as soon as possible so we can get out of paying all the promised union pensions that can never be paid. My kids don't have a future with the weight of them having to pay for all the debt that the unions created. We need the government to go away and give us businesses freedom to compete in a worldwide market

[rob8910]

Amazing none of you dolts realize that UPS workers make double what Fed Ex workers make thanks to that union....while UPS still manages to have higher revenues and gross profits.

But instead of seeing Fed Ex unionize so their employees can earn a better wage, you ideological freaks would rather see UPS de-unionize.....which of course would just result in lower wages for everyone and more money in the pockets of the CEO's! Oh yeah!!! Sounds like a plan!!!

[rob8910]

Amazing none of you dolts realize that UPS workers make double what Fed Ex workers make thanks to that union....while UPS still manages to have higher revenues and gross profits.

But instead of seeing Fed Ex unionize so their employees can earn a better wage, you ideological freaks would rather see UPS de-unionize.....which of course would just result in lower wages for everyone and more money in the pockets of the CEO's! Oh yeah!!! Sounds like a plan!!!

LOL, freaks...

[rob8910]

Amazing none of you dolts realize that UPS workers make double what Fed Ex workers make thanks to that union....while UPS still manages to have higher revenues and gross profits.

But instead of seeing Fed Ex unionize so their employees can earn a better wage, you ideological freaks would rather see UPS de-unionize.....which of course would just result in lower wages for everyone and more money in the pockets of the CEO's! Oh yeah!!! Sounds like a plan!!!

LOL, freaks...