Maggie’s Is it me or have package delivery taken a crap..

I think everyone is using this COVID bullshit to be lazy. My shipments are averaging a day and a half longer before receiving them. It’s all a bunch of bullshit.

Some of the problem is today’s work force. So many younger people don’t have the work ethic that generations in the past have had. So many people just don’t care anymore. I’m not trying to bash young people, but we see it every day. I’m sorry if I just pissed of some of the younger SH community, but it’s true. I’ve been in logistics for a long time, and it’s the worst we’ve ever seen. Many of us just shake our heads. At this point we are just trying to hang on until retirement.

I will also add that we are running more volume right now than we do at Christmas. We usually run 95k packages through our building in a five hour shift during this time of year. We run 150k at Christmas. Right now we are running 170k, and have added another entire part time shift to get the stuff moved.

It's a shit show getting things here also. USPS is by far the worst. Packages will sit in Denver for up to a week sometimes. I

Fed ex blows too

I agree it has a lot to do with the lazy ass people that work these jobs.

I bought something from Hong Kong in early September. It flew into SFO and cleared Customs at 6:00 PM PDT on September 23rd. Zero issues with the transport from Hong Kong to SFO.

I just received it today. 9 business days to get from SFO to the 'burbs of Seattle via USPS.......

I guess I'm the odd man out. I've been lucky. All of my packages in the past couple months have arrived on the scheduled day while couple packages have even arrived a day early.

I do have really late package stories from years ago though.

I was told by my distributor that UPS will no longer guarantee expedited delivery, overnight, 2nd Day Air, etc, even if you pay for it.

I ran over an amazon envelope package because they put it in front of my garage door and I back in... The door was like 15 feet away.

I had a packaged returned to Midway because the UPS driver claimed he couldn't find the correct address, said the address was wrong. I called their insufferable help line, finally someone in the US returned my call, kept up the ruse about misdirected/mislabeled because the address was wrong. I said will you please check another tracking number for me, she says it shows delivered, I asked what day? She replied Tuesday 29 Sep, I asked how that was possible if the address is wrong? Silence! The majority are incompetent asshats at best, and it doesn't matter which shipper it is.

I hate to develop a conspiracy theory, but I think in addition to lazy ass or incompetent people there are also a significant number of people who are more than happy to "Monkey Wrench" shipments, for whatever reason suits their personal agenda. just like people who will lift an obvious firearms case off a luggage system in the airlines, (It happens), there are some of the same types who look for recognizable shipments in the package delivery industry, and either steal them or send them in the wrong direction. Just my opinion, I could be wrong.

You are rivht. They have been thieving the shit out of cell phones. Apple will drop a new i pbone, and the part timers will steal them like crazy. Not unusual to see the po po at the guard shack with our people cuffed.

I was off this last Friday and was pulling into my gate and there is a Fed Ex van backed into the OPEN gate, I am sitting there waiting for him to get out so he can hand me the package. I shit you not I see a box come flying out of the truck and hit the ground, then a second one. I stepped around the truck and he just looked at me like what’s wrong, we had a come to Jesus meeting and I told him if the gate is open that he better drive up to the house and place the packages on the porch and if I caught him throwing them out of his truck again that he would not like it. I am thinking I am going to start having problems getting anything from Fed Ex

I wouldn't also be surprised if when things were slow on the delivery front, a lot of carriers made really crazy deals with Amazon and others to offer them shipping at insanely low rates, mostly to fill up volume, thinking they'd of course make it up by all the higher rates they were charging their "regular customers", then things took off and now they are shipping huge boxes of air for next to nothing, taking up all their capacity and then some, but not really having enough extra income from it to get the decent work staff they need...

Also just as a note, if you run a business, try offering free cold bottled water, snacks and coffee to all the delivery drivers, package or no package for you.
You might be surprised at how much better your delivery service gets...

I was shocked a few minutes ago. ~50lbs. of cast pills left Mt. on Thursday. My wife just texted asking me to let her know when I was expecting something heavy. Lol. USPS got one right. That's one in a row.

In SoCal- orders seems to arrive mainly on time

Delivery trucks are now clogging the streets- everyone is ordering online
Dinner - Uber delivers
Grocery store
Costco
Amazon
Fed ex
Ups

even the USPS delivers on Sundays after 6 pm

lots of sloppy deliveries

I have had 4 items dropped off that are for neighbors up and down the street or a street over
Some of the labels are in 8 point fo

( when you ship- use 16 font)

The post office lost a package for me. It was placed in a wrong spot inside the post office. Fortunately the tracking info showed delivered so they knew they could not say it had not arrived so they looked for the item.

I agree the main problem is the people they are hiring, but think it has more to do with their woke hiring practice than it does the age of the new hires.

We cut our part time wages in half a few years back. Went from premium pay, pick your employees wisely, to we will hire anyone, even work release people.

'they' just announced here today that Winnipeg is going to be a/the central hub for Amazon. Should make things sorta interesting.

The large amount of squirrel related deliveries to Washington State recently may have slowed things down???

Same shit here in Australia, I've had parcels sit in the mail destitution centre for up to a week before it makes it's next leg of the journey with Australia Post, and there are many stories of people watching the online tracking of their parcels and it going on a round the country trip when it was just going from 1 city to the next.

502Chevelle said:

Some of the problem is today’s work force. So many younger people don’t have the work ethic that generations in the past have had. So many people just don’t care anymore. I’m not trying to bash young people, but we see it every day. I’m sorry if I just pissed of some of the younger SH community, but it’s true. I’ve been in logistics for a long time, and it’s the worst we’ve ever seen. Many of us just shake our heads. At this point we are just trying to hang on until retirement.

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While I understand your point, my counter would be that technology evolves everyday and the older generations that are still in these fields have a hard time adapting.

If you have employees that don’t perform to the standard, that’s on the supervisor. If you have a bunch of new employees that can’t perform, then that’s on the hiring team. Both of those elements are predominantly staffed by the older generations. If the company is only getting shit applicants, then they need to look inward at what they are offering to attract potential qualified (and capable) applicants.

All that said, there are a lot of logistical problems stemming from this COVID bullshit. Doesn’t help that we are approaching the worst time of the year.

Negative. I see it daily.

It looks and sounds like, the standards are being lowered to meet the Level of effort the new hires are willing to put forth. imho.

502Chevelle said:

Negative. I see it daily.

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As do I.

Winningdog said:

It looks and sounds like, the standards are being lowered to meet the Level of effort the new hires are willing to put forth. imho.

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Sounds like the company isn’t doing the right things in order to attract the most qualified.

If you don’t proactively attempt to attract the most qualified applicants, you can’t get upset when you have a team of shit.

There are weak and worthless people in every generation. It just seems more common because you have the world in your pocket.

The political mailings are adding to the overload.

Ordered a Berger manual twice, first one said delivered but never showed. Fortunately my order was credited, expect the first one to show up in a month or so.

I am still waiting on a scope I ordered from Euro Optics 2 weeks ago. It was shipped 3 Day Priority Mail. I am now looking to buy another one.

Updated: The scope has finally made it to Texas, might be another week before I see it.

On a better note, I will be receiving a new Razor 1-6 tomorrow. After some shopping around I found a better price. Also, Received two packages delivered by FedEx that I ordered on Tuesday. They weren't schedule to be delivered until tomorrow.

Haven't had any bad package issues, but getting people to answer their fucking phones and/or email is rediculous now.

You'll get a automated response (which proves to me you're retarded) right away about how they are 'trying to keep up' with emails during coronavirus and there can be some astronomically moronic time frame before we can get back to you. This also means there's a 90% chance that:

- You'll never get an email reply, ever.

- You'll get some bullshit reply that didn't actually answer your question and then basically go back into the queue when you respond about how that didn't answer a fucking thing

Lazy fucking people have literally figured out how to turn work email into an indian phone queue.

At the beginning I chalked it up to having to cope with all the bullshit. You've had enough time to fucking figure it out. If you're having people answering emails 24/7, you have enough product/service demand to fucking staff people. Otherwise you're just fucking lazy and making excuses, because you don't have so many orderes and inquiries to where you cant answer the phone or respond to emails within 24 hours. Stop lying about it; noone believes you.

Just like not having real time website inventory; if I get a 'we ll try and respond within 10 business days' bullshit from you, I instantly move on and never come back.

Looking at you Ashbury Precision.

USPS has lost 3 packages of mine this year and one that showed up opened a month after it was reported as delivered to my post office box. I only get mail at my box and they lose a lot of it. I don’t think they’re lazy. More like overworked which is equivalent to under paid. I wouldn’t give a shit either.

Has anyone had their mail fall into the Pitney Bowes black hole? I hadn't heard of them before, but I've had some USPS items go to a Pitney Bowes mailing service, never to be seen again.

Years ago it was Lazer Ship (LazerShit) that was this carrier from hell. When and if they showed up, it would be some free candy looking murder van from southside Baltimore. How do these companies pop up and get contracts.

Package delivery problems are just another indicator of people no longer taking pride in doing a good job. People used to be embarrassed when they were caught doing a poor job, but society has changed and with very few exceptions, most businesses no longer care whether they do agood job, as long as they get paid. In some other countries (like Japan) people still care about doing a good job, and are embarrassed if their service, work, or business is not up to par.