The only thing saving them is the fact that they got the Amazon deliveries contract. And they do a crappy job of it, too.
I find if I order my Amazon Prime items on Friday evening, the USPS actually has to deliver them to me on Sunday. HaHa.
They also have a contract with tv giant QVC. Delivery now takes twice as long, and orders get lost, or misdirected frequently.
My Netflix used to have a two day turn around: Out on Monday, they get it on Tuesday, then I get replacement on Wednesday. Now it takes a week, if I am lucky. Also, more and more movies they are just not getting back, and I have to report missing after 2 weeks. That used to happen rarely, but now it happens a lot. I use a locked multi family mailbox to send and receive. That is the only thing I use the mail for. Soon, I predict Netflix will have a streaming service for DVDs. Why they don’t have it now, IDK.
“The only thing saving them is the fact that they got the Amazon deliveries contract.”
Our regular postman said the same as you noted. He has about 20% of his daily stops being Amazon, Jet, Cabelas and other online merchants.
Then, on the weekend, the UPS uses its trucks and laid off workers to sort/prepare and deliver the weekend Amazon Prime orders deliveries.. The drivers get paid for 6 hours per day.
My last Amazon delivery was delivered by Amazon.
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