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Global Express Company: And then there were three?
Plans to merge two of the world’s big four express-package firms have raised competition worries

Sep 1st 2012 | ATLANTA AND LEIPZIG | from the print edition The Economist http://www.economist.com/node/21561894

THEY work while we sleep, unloading planes and lorries, feeding packages and letters into huge sorting machines, and reloading them for rapid delivery to the four corners of the earth. Each item is coded and tracked on its dizzying journey through many hands. Four companies dominate this express-package business: FedEx and UPS, based in America, and DHL and TNT Express in Europe. They own and run airlines, and fleets of lorries and vans; they operate hubs at airports where the sorting is done.

TNT is the outsider in the group, being smaller and more competitive on price. It is the market leader in two big European countries, Britain and Italy, reckons Transport Intelligence, a research firm. FedEx and UPS are a near-duopoly in the United States. DHL has 32% of the German market, around 40% in Asia and over 50% in central Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

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The industry seems to be natural monopoly, and China may also go into that in the future, but maybe this will be a few years' time for us to see that.

In the movie Cast Away,Chuck Noland played by Tom Hanks required his workers do as quickly as possible so as to stay ahead in the Express companies.

奋斗的聪 发表于 2012-9-3 11:28
In the movie Cast Away,Chuck Noland played by Tom Hanks required his workers do as quickly as possib ...

I watched this movie before, but don't remember anything about it except Tom Hanks/

xrym 发表于 2012-9-3 12:08
I watched this movie before, but don't remember anything about it except Tom Hanks/

You can watch the beginning of the movie once more, Tom Hanks counts time during when a series of work has been done, and tells his workers something about how to increase efficiency.

well, only the large scale organization could be survived in logistics industry

small one could be a broker or any intermediate agency, but they could not run a whole solution since the capacity and resources issue.

You cannot improve your past, but you can improve your future. Once time is wasted, life is wasted.

i can not write in English.

Look not to understand English

In fact  all the 4 above is fine , which is the nearst which is OK . I mean there isnt too much differences in the eye of the customer.
I usually choose UPS and FedEX for the package mail to NY.