We do consider The UPS Store the premier retail channel for our business. And to quote Mr. Eskew, we are 'laser focused' on helping store owners grow their business.

We just kept our heads up. We were like, 'We got them this time,'.

We sent out thousands of software packages, and we've received a significant number of telephone calls [from unhappy users]. It's an inconvenience to customers, but we can walk them through a fix on the telephone.

Certainly other delivery companies are beginning to realize the value of home delivery. But you couldn't get a whole lot more fierce than you already were, ... Even if you look at it and say it's not as profitable as b-to-b deliveries, it's still contributing to our fixed costs. The more volume you can win, you can create density to make it more an more profitable.

We have made extensive efforts to reach out to eBay users.

When the software is installed, if [a user] doesn't have the latest version of [Microsoft's] Internet Explorer 5.5, it will automatically upgrade his browser and put up the UPS home page as his home page. The software doesn't give you a choice of whether or not you want to upgrade. Our software developers understood that if it was upgraded, [a customer's] browser had to go to our home page.

Buy.com provides us the customer information, [which] we then provide back to them in the form of a shipping label.

Our intention was to make it easier to access and use the tools UPS.com offers. This issue never came up when we piloted this software. No customer ever brought it up.

The effect on the kids will actually not be great at all.