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Comparing Shipping Giants: FedEx vs. UPS

So FDX low balled it's initial guidance for the quarter and then revised it upwards. It did pretty much the same thing last quarter. Such shenanigans still don't account for the irrational rise in the stock. I suspect "pump and dump" at work here.

Why Investors Should Sell FedEx

FDX continues to take market share away from Brown at a record pace.................

That's a bunch of hooie! L L Bean the largest catalog shipper and one of Fedex's largest accounts quit Fedex and went to Brown earlier this year.

Are FedEx and UPS Being Diminished Digitally?

Your article may be relevant to FEDEX, I have no idea what their mix is in products offered. However, I do know that UPS is not nearly as dependent on document and printed matter as you state. Long ago when FEDEX thought logistics was a losing proposition UPS embraced it with gusto. It is those hard items that can't be transported by electronics that is UPS's forte. UPS has been in the business of transporting goods since 1908. They got into the document express business in the late eighties. I think you will see this expressed in the numbers they put up today for their fourth quarter of 2008.