Posted on 12/25/2015 9:58:28 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative
Millions of children across America will rush down their stairs on Christmas morning to find a pile of presents waiting for them under their trees.
But for thousands of families there will be less gifts than they planned - after FedEx admitted it did not make all of its scheduled deliveries on time for the big day.
With just hours to go until Christmas, the delivery service admitted defeat, infuriating scores of customers whose festive plans are now ruined.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“I placed an ETSY order originating in England. It made it across the pond in two days then sat in the USPS Jamaica, NY facility for EIGHT days!? Once en route from there it arrived in only two days”
USPS Customs works at the speed of a Government Employees Union...
Yep and their customer base will shrink if they keep taking 3-4 weeks to deliver ground-rate packages. Cost vs. quality of service is a balancing act every company ever founded has to deal with. More basic business there.
You nailed it but it's always easier to blame someone else...............
12/16/2015
OOps.
Indeed. I was waiting on a package that was supposed to be delivered a week ago by USPS. Came across the country from NY to SF, so I figured it was delayed in transit. Checked the tracking number, and found it arrived in SF a week ago but the latest status was "No further information". It arrived yesterday, a week late. For some reason, it sat in local storage after traveling across the nation. They were overwhelmed meeting local deliveries to homes.
What’s the cargo, tennis balls or some kind of fruit?
my gripe is when on multiple occasions they deliver to the wrong house. I’m fortunate he’s an honest man who brought them to me.
you did not have a spawn but a child that will grow up to become an upright citizen and i agree with you that extravagance for a one year old is more a show than anything
you came to this country and wanted to be a part of it and that is the American dream, you aren't part of the Free Sh!t Army ripping it apart
the spawn come from FSA and seem born with their hand out at birth
God Bless
I bake Sunday and sent Monday a few dozen oatmeal raisin cookies, via USPS. To my amazement they all arrived on Wednesday!
Actually I was born here. Parents moved to Africa for job when I was a mere grasshopper. Some of my ancestors saw the Pilgrims sail up and said ‘aw hell, boat people’.
UPS/ FedEx / USPS rent trucks from U-Haul and others EVERY year. It’s the only way they can keep up (for the most part) with the workload.
Thank you.
LOL... at least you don't take what you have for granted!
Especially for small businesses. Shopping centers of any significant size cut better deals for big national chains because they want those longer-term "safe" leases. If you are small, you not only pay a higher rate, you are now virtually always required to sign a personal guarantee to get the lease - essentially forfeiting all of your corporation's protections and allowing the landlord to go after your personal assets if you default.
You got it backwards -- FedEx has contracts to haul low-priority USPS mail, not the other way around, for about 10 years now. In fact this has brought USPS reliability and timely deliveries way up. FedEx would be insane to depend on the Post Office for delivery of FedEx packages.
DHL uses USPS which is horrifically slow. I finally just started putting on the order “Delay as long as possible”.
It comes immediately.
Seriesly, depending where you live, they have so many warehouses they have eliminated a lot of the logistical problems of deliveries.
Not sure what you mean, but see my post #116.
FedEx fills in available space on their airplanes with lower priority USPS mail, so yes the Post Office contract benefits consumers through lower FedEx rates overall. FedEx utilizes empty airplane space to ship USPS mail (allowing FedEx to offer lower, more competitive prices since their airplanes are more efficiently utilized).
On the other hand, consumers (at least the ones that pay taxes) lose out from the Post Office's loss of billions (yes, BILLIONS) of dollars in losses per quarter.
It comes immediately.
HA -- reverse psychology! Works great with kids too. And Democrats.
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