Fucking hate all of this. With payments online getting easier I’m finding it more convenient to order from small websites again and stop using Amazon. But when it comes to shipping, things are really not getting any faster or easier. While Amazon is always a day behind their promises, they are usually much faster than anyone else.
They quit putting packages on planes. They even have Hawaii going by boat now. I see retail rates over $20 to ship ground within the usa. They are claiming shipping will start to take two weeks soon. Yes, be prepared for this. This fucking president and the assholes that voted for them need to be held accountable for this.
Everything about this country is down the shitter and in the pipes. It’s insane how calculated the installation of apathy into Americans was/is though. Built up over decades through the actions of dark money and wackos. It permeates even the oldest generations.
Logistics are incredibly difficult. The reason Amazon is faster is the same reason they’re bigger, vertical integration. Owning the whole shipping process has huge benefits when shipping speed matter s
Yeah. A naive response would be “isn’t UPS big too?” But the shipping is only part of retail logistics. When you also control the warehousing distribution, and can back-feed logistical availability data all the way to the retail interface to affect what people buy in the first place… you have power that no fleet of trucks alone can overcome.
Can agree with this more they also have warehouses near or in major cities to help cut down travel time where small businesses might ship themselves or use a 3PL with one or two fulfilment points.
Rates are so variable too especially when weights exceed a threshold (usually a pound)
Fucking hate all of this. With payments online getting easier I’m finding it more convenient to order from small websites again and stop using Amazon. But when it comes to shipping, things are really not getting any faster or easier. While Amazon is always a day behind their promises, they are usually much faster than anyone else.
They quit putting packages on planes. They even have Hawaii going by boat now. I see retail rates over $20 to ship ground within the usa. They are claiming shipping will start to take two weeks soon. Yes, be prepared for this. This fucking president and the assholes that voted for them need to be held accountable for this.
Everything about this country is down the shitter and in the pipes. It’s insane how calculated the installation of apathy into Americans was/is though. Built up over decades through the actions of dark money and wackos. It permeates even the oldest generations.
Logistics are incredibly difficult. The reason Amazon is faster is the same reason they’re bigger, vertical integration. Owning the whole shipping process has huge benefits when shipping speed matter s
Yeah. A naive response would be “isn’t UPS big too?” But the shipping is only part of retail logistics. When you also control the warehousing distribution, and can back-feed logistical availability data all the way to the retail interface to affect what people buy in the first place… you have power that no fleet of trucks alone can overcome.
Can agree with this more they also have warehouses near or in major cities to help cut down travel time where small businesses might ship themselves or use a 3PL with one or two fulfilment points.
Rates are so variable too especially when weights exceed a threshold (usually a pound)
It might be time to accept again that an order can take a few days to arrive.
Yeah a few days is nothing. But two weeks is disturbingly common. And lack of any predictability is rampant.