TooTechie
Geek in Brown
http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/16/amazon-on-my-way-same-day-for-pay/#.rsoxdd:siwd
Do it and get your auto insurance canceled if you get caught.
Do it and get your auto insurance canceled if you get caught.
Amazon will let anyone deliver
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Jack4343
FT DR Specialist
Maybe it's just me but I don't want some random stranger pulling up into my driveway and walking on my property delivering anything. When I currently order online, I know who is on my property by the way they are dressed and what they are driving. This is also why I don't want Lazership delivering to my house. For a company that is one of the biggest in the world, it just comes off as Bush league to me. I don't see this catching on.
BakerMayfield2018
Fight the power.
I delivered nda in my own vehicle for ups all the time in the 90's. The milage checks were extra beer $$ back then. We did it all the time back then.
BrownTexas
Well-Known Member
This is not a bright idea. Same way I think uber is stupid. All it takes it someone getting into an accident. Back up into my yard or something stupid and it will cost you dearly.
HEFFERNAN
Huge Member
If someone is that hard up for money, I don't want them walking around my house.
UPS, FedEx, USPS, and DHL drivers do this as a career. We have a lot to lose if we're scoping out a house.
I would be pissed if some guy I don't know walked up behind my house and was doing it to make $1.50.
I don't put food delivery drivers in that category because residents are always waiting for them and have an idea what time they will show.
UPS, FedEx, USPS, and DHL drivers do this as a career. We have a lot to lose if we're scoping out a house.
I would be pissed if some guy I don't know walked up behind my house and was doing it to make $1.50.
I don't put food delivery drivers in that category because residents are always waiting for them and have an idea what time they will show.
Browndriver5
Well-Known Member
Amazon is gonna end up screwing themselves. Give it time
BrownTexas
Well-Known Member
While I will say, über has somehow caught on and is expanding, I just don't see this as a great idea.
for PR.This is the alternative to drone delivery in densely populated areas. There certainly would be no shortage of manpower in NYC. Think about a drone in Manhattan. Where would it land? Do you have to meet it outside? If you trust some random delivery guy with your food, why not your package?
The first post is what we hear all the time, "I don't want a stranger", from feedback I receive if all is equal to the shipper or very close, they do prefer the brands. However they've found the recipient just wants a successful delivery, and unmarked contractors get the job done well enough. Strangers come up to doors all the time, to me the thought is more trying to sell fear, for my job protection.
The issue I have is what happens when the transactions doesn't finish properly, it is bound to happen, unless these randoms are better than the official delivery drivers. Right? Today we already have a difference between standard UPS/Fedex services and the Sure/Smart Posts. At the last leg if the delivery doesn't work, the shipper has to figure out where it is geographically, then find the Post Office # and call the local and talk to someone that doesn't do this type of Customer Service job routinely vs one 1-800 # to track from start to finish with your flagship services. IMO this any random person can deliver your package could be factor worse than Sure/Smart, whoever sets up this "community delivery" system they have to act like how UPS/Fedex standard services work today, they need at a singular level to handle answering and getting results to the shipper timely and not pass the buck to the delivery person, since the shipper would have no chance figuring out who that is and following up.
This is all further chipping away at good jobs vs contractor by the minute jobs. Regulated business vs non-regulated, as-if regulations were made for no good reason, they were, because if nothing happened in the past, they wouldn't have made regulated laws for it. So my long term vision on these contractor by the minute jobs is in time something heinous will happem, be national news and then America will go "Oh yeah that's right, that is why we made laws decades ago in these industries".
It seems nice an Utopian though, fellow man helping out fellow man.
The issue I have is what happens when the transactions doesn't finish properly, it is bound to happen, unless these randoms are better than the official delivery drivers. Right? Today we already have a difference between standard UPS/Fedex services and the Sure/Smart Posts. At the last leg if the delivery doesn't work, the shipper has to figure out where it is geographically, then find the Post Office # and call the local and talk to someone that doesn't do this type of Customer Service job routinely vs one 1-800 # to track from start to finish with your flagship services. IMO this any random person can deliver your package could be factor worse than Sure/Smart, whoever sets up this "community delivery" system they have to act like how UPS/Fedex standard services work today, they need at a singular level to handle answering and getting results to the shipper timely and not pass the buck to the delivery person, since the shipper would have no chance figuring out who that is and following up.
This is all further chipping away at good jobs vs contractor by the minute jobs. Regulated business vs non-regulated, as-if regulations were made for no good reason, they were, because if nothing happened in the past, they wouldn't have made regulated laws for it. So my long term vision on these contractor by the minute jobs is in time something heinous will happem, be national news and then America will go "Oh yeah that's right, that is why we made laws decades ago in these industries".
It seems nice an Utopian though, fellow man helping out fellow man.
clean hairy
Well-Known Member
The headline of the article states normal people can now deliver.
Are they saying we are not normal?
How will they screen the folks, It is a bonanza for folks with bad intentions, the Public willingly opens their door for a Stranger who claims "package delivery!"
Without diligent background checks and extensive checking, what liability will they be hit with should a Customer get robbed or beaten?
Are they saying we are not normal?
How will they screen the folks, It is a bonanza for folks with bad intentions, the Public willingly opens their door for a Stranger who claims "package delivery!"
Without diligent background checks and extensive checking, what liability will they be hit with should a Customer get robbed or beaten?
Well these are the same fears people in the cabi business say of Uber, right or wrong.
BrownTexas
Well-Known Member
clean hairy
Well-Known Member
Except Cab Drivers have to go through some process to get the permits, etc to drive a Cab, unlike uber drivers.
oldngray
nowhere special
The California labor commission found that an Uber driver is not an independent contractor but an employee—a decision that, if upheld, could reshape the so-called sharing economy.
http://fortune.com/2015/06/17/uber-drivers-are-employees-sharing-economy/
http://fortune.com/2015/06/17/uber-drivers-are-employees-sharing-economy/
browntroll
Well-Known Member
i actually had something like this happen last week. i ordered something through amazon prime so i expected 2 day shipping, the next day i had
some kid knocking at my door at 10pm asking for me, he had no uniform on no logo on his polo shirt which in my mind i was like wtf who is this then he hands
me the package and says goodbye. i walk to the curb to see him get into a regular honda civic where he was the passenger.
some kid knocking at my door at 10pm asking for me, he had no uniform on no logo on his polo shirt which in my mind i was like wtf who is this then he hands
me the package and says goodbye. i walk to the curb to see him get into a regular honda civic where he was the passenger.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
10pm? I call BS.
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