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Amazon suspend delivery service competing with FedEx and UPS.
- Thread starter Mingoguaya
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It is something I pray we never have to see. If it happens it'll be super difficult, and eventually it'll all get sorted out.
USPS handles Sunday delivery for Amazon, plus plenty of packages during the week. They don't do all of Amazon's parcels, but they do enough that they hire people specifically for the purpose of managing the Sunday delivery volume. Assistant Rural Carriers (ARCs) exist specifically because Amazon has contracted USPS to deliver on Sundays and holidays.
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Remember that this is for Amazon Shipping. Still, normal Amazon is getting swamped with orders and it will take longer than usual for any non-essential shipments from them.
Apple uses FedEx and UPS for their shipments. We are receiving orders fairly quick from them (most of the orders ship for next day service). You'll be fine using Apple.
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Yeah, adding 1,000 daily stops to my route is a nightmare that I NEVER want to experience. š
AMZ definitely doesn't. They have GPS on drivers so you can see them on a street map that pops up on the site/app once they're within a certain distance. If your number's in the system, the courier can call you if you don't answer the door or if you live in a gated building/area.
It might not be stuff they're doing everywhere yet and I do get stuff they send via USPS every once in a blue moon, but Amazon's designs far eclipse what the postal service is ready to do.
Every package ever shipped by Amazon Logistics here has not used USPS. Amazon delivers it through their own people and that includes Sunday delivery here.
Go with Best Buy; you'll probably get it sooner than Amazon. Or of course go with Apple. I would not pick Amazon for that purchase if you want it in a timely manner.
Amazon to suspend delivery service competing with UPS, FedEx
The online retailer told customers that the service, Amazon Shipping, will be paused starting in June, according to the Wall Street Journal, which was first to report the change. Amazon is suspending the service because it needs people and capacity to handle a surge in its own customersā...finance.yahoo.com
So Amazon can't handle the surge in volume and it's not even peak season.
This is Christmas season on steroids.
So wait, does this mean they're not shipping at all or they'll be using UPS/USPS/whatever to fulfill orders?
It was clarified that it won't affect it in the way you're thinking. They'll still use Amazon Logistics which is their own courier to ship and deliver packages. This is Amazon Shipping which applies to non Amazon products and products sold on the Amazon marketplace.
Seriously. This is bigger than any peak in history, and it's happening during a time of year when retailers and supply chains historically aren't resourced to support even half their typical peak holiday capacity.
Online retailers spend literally all year preparing for Peak. This has been the Peak of all Peaks, during historically the lowest capacity months of the year, all while every link in the global supply chain has had to redesign literally every single process to comply with social distancing and other safety guidelines.
It's all absolutely insane and I'm frankly amazed more of retailābrick-and-mortar or onlineāhasn't completed imploded.
In my part of Phoenix Amazon trucks are the most common, by far, means for Amazon packages to be delivered. The Amazon trucks (blue with Amazon's label on the side) will drive in front of the house, drop a package off, take a picture and then I'll get an email/amazon notification showing me that the package has been left by my door. This happens on the regular. It may not happen in your area but the people who say it happens are correct that it does happen and it happens often.
Aha, so your one of those hardworking private company drivers? Y'all are super busy to begin with.
Interesting. Never heard of Amazon Shipping before, I guess because it doesn't exist out here.
However, seems this topic is going down the path about Amazon Logistics. Where I live, 99% of the time packages come from Amazon and not UPS or USPS.
However, seems this topic is going down the path about Amazon Logistics. Where I live, 99% of the time packages come from Amazon and not UPS or USPS.
Oddly enough, first thing I woke up to this morning is a failed delivery attempt notification from Amazon. I checked the status and it said it was from FEDEX. I did the cartoon thing where I rub my eyes with both hands and looked again. Yep, Fedex. I haven't gotten anything from Fedex through Amazon in YEARS.
Only problem is they tried to deliver SUPER EARLY in the morning when my leasing office is closed, so I had to go pick it up from a Fedex Office location. If this is the time of day they're going to be stopping at my apartments for all these deliveries that's going to be a problem.
Only problem is they tried to deliver SUPER EARLY in the morning when my leasing office is closed, so I had to go pick it up from a Fedex Office location. If this is the time of day they're going to be stopping at my apartments for all these deliveries that's going to be a problem.
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It's been just crazy. I have a rural delivery area and it's non stop. And it should be like this for the foreseeable future.
Here is Austin, almost everything that is shipped and sold by Amazon is delivered, to the door, by Amazon Logistics, not USPS.
Not nearly as far, but I sent some documents in a padded envelope from central CT to the Bronx and it was $1.40. I was prepared to pay at least $10
There's no way you can rush that out. There's too many moving pieces that need to be worked out before you can put it out there.
The Repubs gutted the surplus it had. Basically fucking it into oblivion.
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You are most welcome. I feel like people who live in these rural areas are more grateful for the job we do for them. I actually really enjoy the interaction I have with my customers on a daily basis. And in light of the recent news that apparently USPS will go down if not funded by June, I feel like the people who will suffer more will be the ones who live in these rural communities.
I don't know what's nuttier, that Amazon had this service that I wasn't even aware of, or that they've had to go into full holiday season mode in the middle of April.
That's why I pay the measly service fee when it goes on sale. You can force all packages be delivered by ups directly
