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My Time is Yours |
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 God, Family, Country. | ||
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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. "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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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. Lover of the US Constitution Wile E. Coyote School of DIY Disaster | |||
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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” | |||
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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. -c1steve | |||
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My Time is Yours |
I've not had delivery issues yet, but their couriers are not as "professional" as the standards. God, Family, Country. | |||
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Don't Shop. Adopt. |
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. ______________________________________________ "Saving one dog will not change the world, but surely for that one dog, the world will change forever." - Karen Davison "Man can measure the values of his own soul in the look of the eyes of an animal he's helped" - Author Unkown | |||
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stupid beyond all belief |
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. What man is a man that does not make the world better. -Balian of Ibelin Only boring people get bored. - Ruth Burke | |||
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Peripheral Visionary |
Been on a road trip this week. Saw Amazon semi trailers on the road and piggy-backed on train cars. | |||
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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. P229 | |||
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Same here, saw one on I45 in the Huntsville area a couple weeks ago. The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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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. -------------------------- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H L Mencken I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is. -- JALLEN 10/18/18 | |||
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7.62mm Crusader |
There are a lot of Prime Air jets in the sky. They have new hubs in Columbus and Cincinnati. | |||
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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. | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
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. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
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." הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Happily Retired |
Hmm. Never seen an Amazon delivery vehicle. Guess I live too far out in the sticks. .....never marry a woman who is mean to your waitress. | |||
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stupid beyond all belief |
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. What man is a man that does not make the world better. -Balian of Ibelin Only boring people get bored. - Ruth Burke | |||
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As Extraordinary as Everyone Else |
It's called Vertical Integration...pretty soon we'll all be bowing to King Jeff ------------------ Eddie Our Founding Fathers were men who understood that the right thing is not necessarily the written thing. -kkina | |||
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As Extraordinary as Everyone Else |
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. ------------------ Eddie Our Founding Fathers were men who understood that the right thing is not necessarily the written thing. -kkina | |||
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