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Holiday disaster looms as UPS, FedEx overloaded after online shopping soars
businessinsider.com ^ | Dec. 11, 2015 | Hayley Peterson

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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KEYWORDS: christmasshopping; etail; fedex; ups
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Atlanta, south and central Florida area malls have been - well, not “empty” but a very, very long way from being “filled up”. That was true on Black Friday, Monday, Wednesday, and the past weekend.


41 posted on 12/12/2015 10:22:19 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: PROCON

It avoids the hassle of driving to a mall, dealing with gaggles of teens, long walks to hunt for what you want.


42 posted on 12/12/2015 10:37:16 AM PST by tbw2
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To: PROCON

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?


43 posted on 12/12/2015 10:44:50 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: PROCON

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.


44 posted on 12/12/2015 10:46:54 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ("A real conservative will bear the scars...will have been in the trenches fighting."--- Ted Cruz)
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To: PROCON

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).


45 posted on 12/12/2015 10:50:00 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido
Hyperbole, huh?



46 posted on 12/12/2015 11:00:06 AM PST by PROCON (It's not islamophobia, it's islamonausea)
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To: PROCON

Fried fish is not a disaster. :-)


47 posted on 12/12/2015 11:09:51 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: PROCON

Still trying to figure out how this all adds up to a “holiday disaster”.


48 posted on 12/12/2015 11:24:06 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: Wolfie

Some vendors guarantee delivery by a certain date, like ‘zon Prime.

If Amazon misses a delivery deadline ...they have to endure a penalty. Since they are working a small margin, to begin with,...it is costly to their bottom line.


49 posted on 12/12/2015 11:28:06 AM PST by Daffynition (*Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty* W.LaPierre)
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To: PROCON
No complaints on my end, my wife and I have purchased 100% online so far.

Traffic, Parking, Crowds, Time...

Lot more options, more items, quick searches online.

50 posted on 12/12/2015 11:47:28 AM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: Willie From Austin
I work for a soft drink company and we are SO SHORT CDL drivers that many of us are ‘working OFF the books’....

Hopefully your company is compensating you appropriately for putting your CDL on the line for them.

51 posted on 12/12/2015 11:50:03 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Obama = ISIS Fanboy)
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To: snooter55
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.

That's not what the discussions are saying on browncafe.com

52 posted on 12/12/2015 11:51:54 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Obama = ISIS Fanboy)
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To: Mears
What has Brown done for you lately?


53 posted on 12/12/2015 11:53:57 AM PST by Daffynition (*Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty* W.LaPierre)
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To: real saxophonist; Bruce Kurtz
I just saw on the news this morning that UPS and FedEx are rentimg Ryder and U-Haul vans.

They do this every year.

54 posted on 12/12/2015 12:51:26 PM PST by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: VeniVidiVici

I’ll look into that. THX for the heads-up !

Snoot ;o)


55 posted on 12/12/2015 12:52:15 PM PST by snooter55 (People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do)
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To: IM2MAD

Wow! You certainly have had some bad weather.

Here in MA we have had delightful weather.(fingers crossed)

.


56 posted on 12/12/2015 12:54:10 PM PST by Mears
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To: kearnyirish2

Yes, we are in NJ too. Hubby is always telling me “it’s one day from X”.

Last year in MD my daughter had some problems with stuff she ordered, but knowing her she may well have ordered at the very last minute.


57 posted on 12/12/2015 1:34:30 PM PST by jocon307
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To: kearnyirish2

Paternal Mineral and I have remarked about the lack of any kind of “holiday” crowd at the local WalMart this year. The store is very “decked out”, but there seems to be no more customers than usual. Maybe everyone is going when we’re not there.


58 posted on 12/12/2015 1:42:55 PM PST by AceMineral (One day men will beg for chains.)
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To: jocon307

I ordered a item from Amazon on Decemember 5th, and was told I would get it by the tenth. Nothing on the tenth, nothing on the eleventh. I got it today via the Postal Service. The “handoff” between Federal Express and the Postal Service was not very fast.


59 posted on 12/12/2015 1:46:08 PM PST by AceMineral (One day men will beg for chains.)
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To: real saxophonist

I’ve been noticing UPS and FedEx using rental vans in December for five years or more. Sometimes they slap a magnetic company logo placard on the driver’s door, but not always. Makes sense to take on the expanded fleet only when needed. I guess they hire seasonal delivery drivers, too.


60 posted on 12/12/2015 2:56:17 PM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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