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ok. so please join the fuck-amazon-buy-it-from-a-human-club.
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None of them want to say it, so they're making excuses.
Sales are plunging. The poors are broke, and have stopped buying crap they don't need.
It's not going to get better anytime soon, either.
I don't know if there's less UPS shipping done by Amazon, but Amazon sales are okay.
https://www.marketplacepulse.com/stats/amazon-north-america-sales
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It sounds like it's more to do with the fact that Amazon built out its own delivery infrastructure and had been giving the less-desirable deliveries to UPS.
https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/7-words-explain-why-ups-is-cutting-amazon-loose/91145555
For Amazon and UPS, the relationship started to change during the 2013 holiday season after a meltdown of the UPS shipping network led to millions of gifts not arriving in time for Christmas. The debacle spurred Amazon to accelerate the build-out of its own delivery network to reduce its reliance on third-party shippers like UPS.
Estimates suggest that Amazon has spent well over $100 billion to build out its own network. As a result, it delivers the majority of orders itself, leaving outside carriers to deliver less profitable packages.
I will say... Using total dollars spent without adjusting for inflation means that every year/quarter will look like the best year as long as something catastrophic hasn't happened.
I’m not sure I understand. UPS delivers packages for money. They don’t want to deliver small packages for any amount of money?
How long until FedEx does the same? Amazon has never delivered to my rural address. I guess if you’re out of range you’re just SOL?
I was told we don't need USPS because corporations are better in every way and blah blah blah. Now we need USPS to get packages again?
Even usps can’t deliver to rural addresses. They deliver to line of boxes at the highway intersection which get ran over or broken into monthly.
Instead you either get a card to pick up the packages at the usps office, or you skip the broken-into mailbox and get a pobox.
Amazon.com needs to chill and get rid of their delivery services due to their anti-competitive nature.
Even usps can’t deliver to rural addresses. They deliver to line of boxes at the highway intersection which get ran over or broken into monthly.
Luxury. I live in a PO Box-only zip code. Heaven help you if the USPS gets ahold of anything addressed to your street addresses, you’ll never receive it.
Damn TIL. I've lived and worked in 25% of the (contiguous) states and did not know that was a thing. I was so annoyed when I moved to a place with a neighborhood box. There have been times when I've liked using PO boxes, like when I've lived in areas where everything got stolen all the time, but I'd hate for it to be my only option.
What sucks even more is UPS and FedEx don't want to deliver to those areas either. If you try to get a package delivered through one of them, they'll hand it off to USPS for "last mile delivery", and USPS will happily stamp it as undeliverable and return to sender / trash it.
Not asking you to dox yourself or anything but is the area your in rural, urban, suburban, exurban or any other neighborhood descriptor I missed?
Amazon will choose what is most profitable
My guess is Amazon is pouring money into it and lowering prices so much that it's not profitable for UPS. Once UPS and FedEx stop competing with them Amazon will be a monopoly and will rise praises to whatever it wants.
Amazon has become a competitor to UPS since they started their own delivery services. This lead to UPS cutting ties with Amazon. I guess Amazon will have to complete the rollout of their own delivery services to your area and others like yours.
A drone hovers over your remote country home. Is it Amazon delivering a package? Is it an enthusiastic hobbyist with a voyeurism fetish? Is it a particularly modern version of religious hawkers? Is it the New York Times seeking subscriptions? Is it ICE?
Could be anything.
I just thought about how these drones will be full of cameras and controlled by Jeff Bezos, who probably ate dinner with Trump last night, and who also owns Ring, a company that shares your camera footage with the government. Imagine if Flock partners with them too and they have drones flying everywhere recording 24/7 with facial recognition and license plate readers with everything feeding to our facist leader.
Imagine if Flock partners with them too
Dude....I hate to tell you... straight from Flock themselves
"With Amazon DTS (drone time-sharing), it could be all the above! Using the same logic as AWS, we realized that there were savings to be had in making hardware shared at scale!"
Well what ever it is I'm goanna launch a rock at it with a slingshot!
It's not that UPS doesn'twant to deliver small packages, it's that the Amazon deliveries are extremely small profit for them. Both because Amazon doesn't pay that much for delivery, and because Amazon deliberately offloads the most expensive deliveries (like rural addresses) to rival companies.
You're not SoL yet as the USPS is mandated to deliver to every address in the country; you may be SoL if they ever finally manage to privatize the Post Office.
USPS actually does not deliver to all addresses, there are places that are PO Box only!
You expect profitable deliveries to subsidize your rural living choice.
I'm sure Amazon has some locker delivery that you can also choose.
depends if the item is too large it can be a problem.
Honestly they don’t. Used to be a rite aid but they went out of business.