I was speaking to my fedex buddy and he told me his volume is down 30% because of Amazon's on delivery system. Same with my UPS driver!

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/1...-holiday-season.html

I think I've seen personal cars used when AMZ is listed as the carrier in tracking. I'm not sure but I think this is the case at least some times.

The carriers I'm familiar with:
1) UPS, Fedex, USPS: they have 'company' vehicles
2) AMZ: not sure -- personal cars at times?
3) OnTrac: not sure


Off topic: one of my biggest pet peeves is that it's increasingly challenging to buy something I want where the seller is actually Amazon. I'm okay if the seller is some other known, reputable firm with a local presence somewhere.

What I don't like and am seeing increasingly is the third party no name vendors with limited reviews and especially with a noticeable amount of negative reviews. I hate that. I may start using Prime less if this becomes worse.

My experience with Amazon is that fulfillment and shipping times, as well as third-party sellers vetting by Amazon, if any, has decreased for some time now.

Amazon logistics delivered my last order to some other address.

It took 2 hours of calls to Amazon and Amazon Logistics to reach a resolution.

Amazon did make it good by resending the order. I don’t need the BS.

USPS has always worked fine at my address. I may not renew my Prime if I do not have a
Way to “opt out” of any Amazon Logistics delivery.

Google any variation of “amazon logistics complaints 2017”

This is good news. UPS jacked their rates way up due to the heavy demand. Perhaps UPS will start charging a more reasonable amount now.

I've not had delivery issues yet, but their couriers are not as "professional" as the standards.

I was at my local grocery market yesterday and they have one the Amazon delivery lockers. The lady loading it up wasn't from the big 3 shippers. I thought that was odd, didn't know that Amazon's own delivery service was up and running.

We still get our Prime packages delivered by UPS and USPS. And, their delivery times are getting pretty stretched out. Not happy about that.

Only a matter of time before the new world eats the old world.

Amazon has gotten everyone hooked on ordering from them. It only makes sense to now have their own shipping company.

Been on a road trip this week. Saw Amazon semi trailers on the road and piggy-backed on train cars.

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Originally posted by Deqlyn:
Only a matter of time before the new world eats the old world.

Amazon has gotten everyone hooked on ordering from them. It only makes sense to now have their own shipping company.

I've heard that Amazon essentially contracts delivery much like an Uber car. They batch all the packages for a given area and then put out the requests to drivers - who's interested in delivering 48 packages today to 95841 before 5 pm?

I'm not sure it works like this everywhere, but at least in major metropolitan areas.

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Originally posted by tigereye313:
Been on a road trip this week. Saw Amazon semi trailers on the road and piggy-backed on train cars.

Same here, saw one on I45 in the Huntsville area a couple weeks ago.

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Originally posted by Russ59:
I've heard that Amazon essentially contracts delivery much like an Uber car. They batch all the packages for a given area and then put out the requests to drivers - who's interested in delivering 48 packages today to 95841 before 5 pm?

Wanna get rich? come up with an app that will map a delivery route for these private drivers. Not just Point-A-to-Point-B, but the most efficient way to get from A-to-B-to-C-to-etcetera.

There are a lot of Prime Air jets in the sky. They have new hubs in Columbus and Cincinnati.

I had Sunday delivery with Amazon Prime the other week. It ended up being a U.S Mail truck midday Sunday. I didn't want to ask to much, he seemed to say he was out only for Amazon on Sunday.

Couple weeks ago there was a panel van with the Amazon logo making deliveries in my neighborhood.

I had to swerve to avoid being hit. The driver was looking at her phone.

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Originally posted by newtoSig765:
Wanna get rich? come up with an app that will map a delivery route for these private drivers. Not just Point-A-to-Point-B, but the most efficient way to get from A-to-B-to-C-to-etcetera.

Back in the early 1960s I got started in computer programming while working at Bell Labs. The OR (Operations Research) guys were working on this. It was called "The Traveling Salesman Program."

Hmm. Never seen an Amazon delivery vehicle. Guess I live too far out in the sticks.

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Originally posted by Russ59:

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Originally posted by Deqlyn:
Only a matter of time before the new world eats the old world.

Amazon has gotten everyone hooked on ordering from them. It only makes sense to now have their own shipping company.

I've heard that Amazon essentially contracts delivery much like an Uber car. They batch all the packages for a given area and then put out the requests to drivers - who's interested in delivering 48 packages today to 95841 before 5 pm?

I'm not sure it works like this everywhere, but at least in major metropolitan areas.

If I worked at UPS or FedEx and was more than 5 years from retirement I would be learning new skills and making a career shift.

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Originally posted by Deqlyn:
Only a matter of time before the new world eats the old world.

Amazon has gotten everyone hooked on ordering from them. It only makes sense to now have their own shipping company.

It's called Vertical Integration...pretty soon we'll all be bowing to King Jeff

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Originally posted by newtoSig765:

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Originally posted by Russ59:
I've heard that Amazon essentially contracts delivery much like an Uber car. They batch all the packages for a given area and then put out the requests to drivers - who's interested in delivering 48 packages today to 95841 before 5 pm?

Wanna get rich? come up with an app that will map a delivery route for these private drivers. Not just Point-A-to-Point-B, but the most efficient way to get from A-to-B-to-C-to-etcetera.

I saw a piece on 60 Minutes couple of years ago that UPS already is doing this. Basically they try to route their trucks in a clockwise route thereby minimizing the amount of left hand turns across traffic..They said the savings was significant.