Posted on 12/12/2015 9:12:24 AM PST by PROCON
An unexpected surge in online purchases is putting pressure on UPS and FedEx to get packages out on time this holiday season, and that could result in extra costs for retailers.
Retailers like Target broke online-sales records on Thanksgiving Day and the following Monday this year after luring shoppers with discounts.
Broadly, online sales from the long weekend totaled $11 billion this year, according to Adobe Digital Index.
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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.
I just saw on the news this morning that UPS and FedEx are rentimg Ryder and U-Haul vans.
UPS are using U-Hauls to deliver in our area because of demand.
Click the pic!
Nah...they’re secretly outsourcing to drivers in Indian distribution centers.
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)
>>Workers are sent home for lack of work regularly, b/c the automated, robotic equipment is breaking down.
This is why I have worked in the Industrial Automation field for 25 years. Employers just keep getting more and more desperate as my generation retires and no one steps up to learn to maintain automated machinery. I’ve been a supervisor of technicians for a while now, but I keep my skills sharp because there are days when you just don’t have enough techs to go around.
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.
cute :-)
Me to, and I'm still waiting on the delivery of the package.
The work/packaging are being sent to other dist. centers in Seattle and TX, PA, VA, TN to move them along. I’m talking *fulfillment* centers....not delivery. They are losing money big time.
I understand Amazon owns the company that makes the robotic equipment. Perhaps that’s where their problem is.
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