Hmm, do fears of terrorism by the religion of peace play a role?
Hmm, do fears of terrorism by the religion of peace play a role?
I had a feeling this was going to happen, so I finished my online purchases before Thanksgiving.
Somewhat. but there are other factors.
Someone dented my car in a crowded parking lot last week and just drove off. That doesn't happen when I shop at Amazon.
Cyber Monday shopping makes more sense than standing in line on Black Friday for a limited number of deal busters.
I got my UPS package the other day from a Ryder Van. Guess they are contracting out for more vehicles.
I think I’ve gotten everything I ordered (I think, I’ll know for sure when I open boxes today or tomorrow.)
I must praise LL Bean I ordered something from them on Tuesday and it arrive on Thursday. And I think their shipping is always free.
Please....it’s not just UPS/FEDEX that are overloaded during the holidays.
ALL of us in the delivery business take a beating during Thanksgiving - Christmas Rush.
I work for a soft drink company and we are SO SHORT CDL drivers that many of us are ‘working OFF the books’....
I hope DOT doesn’t read this...
There is a brand new Amazon distribution center in Windsor, CT. They just fired 200 employees 2 days ago.
Workers are sent home for lack of work regularly, b/c the automated, robotic equipment is breaking down.
UPS are using U-Hauls to deliver in our area because of demand.
Click the pic!
FWIW, We (UPS) - ARE NOT - overloaded, just busy ! fed-exx however, has been in over it’s head since day one. Little to no infrastructure. They are getting better in that area though. They just needed to understand that you have to spend a few bucks to make money. They are gonna build a new “hub” near/in Concord, NC next year I believe. It will serve them well.
MERRY CHRISTMAS !
Snoot ;o)
The article didn’t seem to address air freight delivery rates, only ground delivery rates.
For last week’s deliveries, it says FedEx fell from 97 percent last year to 95 percent this year, and UPS fell from 97 percent to 91 percent this year.
If I find a series that I want to try they rarely carry anything but the most recent book.
So I shop on-line.
While I think terrorism has to be on peoples’ minds, I think other issues (like the economy) play a large role. Here in NJ we have plenty of malls, but no economic recovery; the few times I’ve been to them over the past couple of years there are people walking around but few carrying any packages. A lot of them are foreigners, and they look around as though they are in a museum.
Also, malls are one of the few places in this very segregated state where one would encounter young ferals.
Our USPS carrier just delivers mail to our rural box. Packages come later in the day from part-timers in their own cars. We’re told there’s no room for the packages in the usual delivery vehicles.
A lot of former seasonal UPS guys are now driving for Uber.
It avoids the hassle of driving to a mall, dealing with gaggles of teens, long walks to hunt for what you want.
This would be a good signal for these companies to maybe INVEST in a more robust operation.
Unless they want to leave that open for a new competitor?
I have a package that’s a day late, but it’ll get here in plenty of time, I’m sure.
I’m getting ready to order some hand soaps from Bath and Body Works, and it doesn’t matter how long they take to get here.
One problem with the business insider blog (I call it the bi-blog) is their habitual hyperbole. I would hardly describe getting packages delivered a few days late around Christmastime due to a reasonably successful shopping season as a “disaster.”
But I guess it sells papers (or gets clicks).
Still trying to figure out how this all adds up to a “holiday disaster”.