No Strike, Same Lesson

APX's demise brings to mind the lessons learned from the UPS strike: the need to spread out your ground shipments among several carriers. But since the Postal Service reinvented its Parcel Post service as Parcel Select to give shippers attractive discounts for last-mile delivery from postal destination delivery units (DDUs), few catalogers have shied away from channeling most of their ground delivery packages to either APX or SmartPost, the former Quad/Graphics-owned Parcel Direct.