About a month ago, Nate Skiver, founder of LPF Spend Management, a parcel-delivery consultancy, posed a rhetorical question on his LinkedIn page: What if shippers and retailers used regional delivery carriers and last-mile providers to meet their primary e-commerce delivery needs and used UPS Inc. (NYSE:UPS) and FedEx Corp. (NYSE:FDX) to fill in the blanks as backups?
Skiver’s musings received about 10,000 page views, striking a chord in an industry experiencing profound changes in how its...
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