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Amazon smiles as it overtakes delivery giants UPS and FedEx as the new leader in private shipping
Washington Examiner ^ | November 27, 2023 | Eden Villalovas

Posted on 11/28/2023 8:35:02 AM PST by Twotone

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To: Twotone
Because Amazon uses the USPS to deliver its packages that it cannot do profitably. Let the taxpayer bear the burden, not Amazon.

FedEx and UPS have not relied on the USPS's transformation to deliver stuff to hard-to-rech locations.

(IMHO)

21 posted on 11/28/2023 11:23:08 AM PST by imardmd1 (To learn is to live. To live is to teach another. Fiat Lux!)
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They really had no choice but to come up with their own shipping infrastructure to get the job done. The commercial carriers have gone increasingly flaky and unreliable, accelerated by the covid communism from 2020 forward.
 
 

22 posted on 11/28/2023 2:37:47 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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The further away you are from an Amazon shipping hub, the longer the delivery time and the more likely it will be sent by regular commercial carriers. Right now I'm sandwiched by two large hubs, one north one south, with what appears to be a third massive huge one being built at nearly point blank range to me. Right now with some orders I can get next day service. That big one opens up, it's liable to be same day service.
 
 

23 posted on 11/28/2023 2:43:00 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: faithhopecharity

What more can they do? For me at least they give a 2 hour window and starting at 10 stops away have a GPS map with with the truck on it and how many stops there are until it gets here.

It’s frankly amazing how well it runs.


24 posted on 11/28/2023 2:48:13 PM PST by Continuty122
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#9 I am returning an item to Staples.
The message I received is:

“We will be sending a driver to collect your items. The driver will arrive soon as the next business day from when you placed your return or up to 5 business days”

Yep, whenever.
I will wait patiently by the door.....


25 posted on 11/28/2023 2:57:04 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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Amazon won’t even pick up “free returns” merchandise .. not even from the very porch they delivered it to

they make you get a ride down to a UPS store

very very very very very very very inconvenient ... even impossible for some customers...


26 posted on 11/29/2023 10:38:29 AM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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