Hot Topic: How’d the potential strike affect how much you ship with UPS?

Shippers diverted an estimated 1 million parcels a day away from UPS to competitors like USPS and FedEx in advance of a possible strike by the Teamsters on August 1. Now that the strike has been averted, the question is when and if that business will return to UPS.

You tell us: How did the potential strike play out concerning your business and personal shipping? Cast your vote here.

Circling back: Last time, we also asked you about a topic related to UPS, namely that its shipping insurance division was introducing a “predictive analytics solution” called DeliveryDefense. It determines how likely a package is to be stolen at a given address, and if it’s likely senders can opt to deliver it somewhere other than the address, like a nearby UPS Store.

So we asked you if you agreed with the basic structure of the tool, namely whether retailers should send products somewhere besides a customer’s home if they determine it’s apt to be stolen there. And 70.9% of you said yes, if the data suggests that the package is more likely to be stolen at a customer’s address, the retailer should ship it somewhere else to be picked up. Another 20% said no, even if the data suggests the package is more likely to be stolen at a customer’s address, the retailer should not inconvenience only some customers by making them pick up packages, while 9.1% of you didn’t know or weren’t sure.