I love to see free markets working at their best.
The big shipping companies, recognizing that we are moving further into an entrepreneurially-based economy, are finding creative ways to attract small businesses. From the Comumbus Dispatch:
FedEx has quietly become the nation’s second-largest producer of signs and banners, and it’s about to unveil a service aimed at helping entrepreneurs get into the direct-mail-marketing industry. DHL has begun a smallbusiness magazine and is funding micro-enterprise efforts….And UPS has become one of the top providers of Small Business Administration-backed loans in the country.
A big part of their move into retail operations, FedEx with their Kinko’s acquisition and UPS with their Mailboxes, Etc. acquisition, was to position their businesses to capture the exploding small business segment in the economy.