I do not believe a final decision has been reached on BPM but I suspect it will be gone.
I am not sure about what to think is going to happen to Amazon and USPS.
The January USPS rate increase is narrowing the difference between Retail Rates and Commercial Rates, and I suspect USPS is planning for a big increase in what Amazon pays them.
I am shipping smaller media and using less media mail. At 1/2 lb I use media mail primary for zone 8. And frankly, I am not that thrilled with Zone 8 customers who are probably buying from me because my fixed rate shipping price is losing a little bit.
The Ebay policy is often You can return anything if you claim it is ITEM NOT AS DESCRIBED. Contrary to popular beiief, Ebay buyers are not simple-minded.
Iām guessing those were bundles of 25 like I get from Uline. If they couldnāt fit them in the Corolla I suspect they are spacially ( spatially) challenged. It would be a tight fit but it could be done. I would have to remeber to take her walker out of the trunk though!
I noticed that as well. I was shocked when I saw that but maybe I should not have been. It seems like the post office wants one-price-fits-all method where everyone pays the same price. I wonder how that might affect revenues and volume.
The post office has to realize their prices can only go so high before people move away from them. I suspect they either donāt care or are thinking that the higher price point may be higher than we would like to think.
I would revisit MCF if it werenāt so dang expensive.
Move to where? FEDEX and UPS have their own problems.
I doubt if GoFo could handle much volume.
If you are not aware of GoFo it is a service in the US which is used by Chinese sellers to fulfill and deliver orders.
I was present when they delivered an Ebay order to me. The delivery was made by a well dressed driver in a late model BMW. A huge contrast to the drivers who are delivering Walmartās orders in our area.
Been seeing more and more packages from them in the deliveries to my building. Today their deliveries outnumbered the Amazon packages which were delivered in the morning delivery.
We are still using MCF but itās nearing a breaking-point with all the price hikes. I think itās about doubled since it was introduced, not so long agoā¦
Well, it appears Amazon Trucks have arrived here after all. My wife says she has seen several. I still have not seen any but yesterday (sunday) an order arrived on my doorstep the label was not USPS, UPS or Fed-Ex and had a TBA tracking number. Going to the PO this morning, I noticed the switchbacks down my road all torn up from serious tire spinning. (only me or guests on my roadā¦ I pick up USPS and UPS packages in town)
A friend of mine is a driver for the USPS, and he has commented several times about the āamazon driversā and the chaos they create which impacts HIS schedule, as he must take time out of his very tight schedule to āclean up after themā, simply to use the loading dock.
The black surface is a ramp that is used to roll large bins (they look like laundry carts) of mail down from the truck bed to the loading dock, and when the way is not clear, the bins cannot make the turn at the end of the blkac ramp.
The pallet-wrapping skills at Amazon seem non-existent, and they have yet to discover āstrappingā for pallets, it seems. But this kind of avalanche is what the Amazon drivers leave, and they run away before anyone can tell them to clean up their mess and move their pallets aside.
So, THIS is what happens to orders going to customers between Amazon and the USPS. You can see how the USPS is justified in expecting a āpartnerā who does more than dump a pile and leave.
One should not forget the ability and know how when it comes to a pallet jack. If one can not control a pallet jack, the shrink wrap has little chance of surviving.
Iām so out of date, is āspendā a noun? I have to say that the concept of Amazon deliberately āincreasing their spendā on anything automatically sounds suspicious to me.
Unfortunately (@ least to my way of thinking), the Oxford & Cambridge Dons, some years back, did indeed sign off on using the verb āspendā in this fashion.
As has been seen many times before in Recorded History, a bastardization of language constructs proceeds apace with a growing disdain for even so little an effort as actuallylearning - and retaining that knowledge via exercising its usage @ least semi-regularly - EXACTLY what said constructs are.
I am not opposed to using shortcuts, should they not undermine societal cohesion - but Iād submit that the willy-nilly rush to promote the Minority Opinion over the Majority Consensus with which Western Society has been subject over the last Ā½-century & more begins with folks failing to understand why roots lay where they doā¦
Subject to a vote by the Postal Board every time they ask for an increase. The balancing act is like watching a bad magician since the TOTAL increase can only be so much. That makes some rates go way up while others may not budge much.
Think of playing Jenga with sticks of lit dynamiteā¦
