“And Brian, on your point on rev per piece, look, we continue to see strong base rate improvement in rev per piece. We expect the fourth quarter to be a little bit above 6%.”

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“w you think rev per piece will track into the fourth quarter and sort of exit the year? There's a lot going on with the mix dynamics, some of the product service changes, but clearly, it looks like there's still some base rate momentum and also a bit of a help from fuel. So if you can give us a little bit more thoughts on those 3 parts of that trend would be helpful. Carol Tomé: On the Ground Saver product, density is -- continues to be a challenge. We just can't seem to get more packages per stop on these residential deliveries. And this is one reason why we're so very excited about our renewed relationship with USPS. We estimate that the cost drag in the third quarter was about $100 million... Brian Dykes: Which is another cost that we overcame as we came down to drive margin expansion. And Brian, on your point on rev per piece, look, we continue to see strong base rate improvement in rev per piece. We expect the fourth quarter to be a little bit above 6%. And if you look at that with where we set out originally at the full year to be 6%, we're coming in higher than that. And so we expect that to come through both in base rate, slightly less mix improvement in the third quarter as we start to lap some of the Chinese e-commerce shipper actions that we took last year and then holiday demand -- strong holiday demand surcharge. Operator: Our next question is coming from Ravi Shanker from Morgan Stanley. Ravi Shanker: So you obviously had a lot of traction with headcount reduction in both the building side and the driver side. The union is saying that kind of you guys have committed to net job increases through the course of the contract. So how do you see that playing out in the remaining 2.5 years of the contract? And would you have to start h”