Bye Bye for now....Amazon

[brownmonster]

If the idiots at Amazon learned to use more then one piece of scotch tape on a 40LB box, maybe so many wouldn't get damaged in our network

When it comes to damages Amazon has no one to blame but themselves. Apparently crap wages don't get you good help.

 

[SCV good to go sir.]

Truth is, we don't know the margins and we don't know the discounts so unless you'd like to become the sales rep and enlighten us; you don't really know...

Figures the one time we need that sales rep guy, he's nowhere to be found.

 

[norcalbrown]

Amazon Pantry is BEAST! Why leave the house to lug a bunch of heavy household goods YOURSELF when a nice person in a brown uniform will bring it to the front door, maybe even bring it inside. Let alone the 40 lb. bag of dog food. Thanks, UPS.

 

[retiredTxfeeder]

K-Mart put themselves out of business.

kmart is still in business. They did close a majority of their stores, however. The closest store to me is now 94 miles away. They do seem to do some business through their website as well.
http://www.kmart.com/

 

[pickup]

I picked up a feeder load at Amazon the other day. I brought an empty trailer and dropped it and hooked up the loaded trailer. Normally, there is a seal on the back of Amazon trailers, but not this time. I opened the trailer door to find two flat screen televisions teeter tottering on the top of the last pallet. They were loaded with the screens facing downward. In other words, they were loaded with total disregard to the arrows on the boxes indicating which side should be facing up.

I repositioned the packages so they would not get damaged in transit, but if there were a seal on the trailer, I wouldn't have gotten back there and those two television sets would have fallen and most likely would have resulted in some damage. It hurt my eyes just to see those two units loaded like that, how could the loaders just put those on like that when there was plenty of room in the trailer to load them correctly?

 

[Wally]

Volume in my hub has dropped dramatically and we've seen a ton of dumb being done to try and compensate.

I also heard we were losing a significant chunk of Amazon due to damages.

I wonder if Orion is causing a damage increase ?

 

[UPSGUY72]

Amazon can't drop us or any other they use they ship to much daily for the othet carriers to handle which is the reason in the first place they use multiple carriers.

 

[Number24]

Anyone else notice the lack of Amazon packages in the last week or so?

No. I've been seeing a lot of minions.

 

[DOK]

Anyone else notice the lack of Amazon packages in the last week or so?

No. But I am surprised at the vast number of amazon we deliver and that it's only a fraction of what's delivered on a daily basis. A lot go through PO and FedEx, unreal.

 

[onehandsolo]

Target and many other stores will match there prices.

 

[jerseyupser]

UPS knows what they're doing and I'm sure they are making a nice profit off amazon any way you put it or they wouldn't be doing it.

 

[working up a sweat]

Amazon is opening a new million square foot warehouse in Windsor CT. Amazon is hiring between 300 and 500 people there.

I work at the Bradley air hub 4 miles away. We are now hiring package handlers to take on the additional volume.

Lots of rumors about added volume here. But we don't know specifics on how much yet. I heard that they opening up at least one of the 2 dormant belts here. We run 6 belts on night sort of 8 belts in the hub now.

The average PTer gets 10-12 hours a week here. I expect that number to go up to 16-18 hours if we get the additional volume.

 

[Coldworld]

K-Mart put themselves out of business.

Yeah you didn't think the icees and sub sandwiches they sold would keep them afloat forever....

 

[Coldworld]

Amazon is opening a new million square foot warehouse in Windsor CT. Amazon is hiring between 300 and 500 people there.

I work at the Bradley air hub 4 miles away. We are now hiring package handlers to take on the additional volume.

Lots of rumors about added volume here. But we don't know specifics on how much yet. I heard that they opening up at least one of the 2 dormant belts here. We run 6 belts on night sort of 8 belts in the hub now.

The average PTer gets 10-12 hours a week here. I expect that number to go up to 16-18 hours if we get the additional volume.

10-12 hours a week...that's ridiculous..I was at 20 to 25 a week when working in the hub..does 10 hours even allow for health care benefits??

 

[TooTechie]

Our business agent said Amazon told ups their overall volume is down 8% right now.

 

[iruhnman630]

Still seeing plenty of minions on the shelves

 

[TooTechie]

Same

 

[bleedinbrown58]

Amazon is opening a new million square foot warehouse in Windsor CT. Amazon is hiring between 300 and 500 people there.

I work at the Bradley air hub 4 miles away. We are now hiring package handlers to take on the additional volume.

Lots of rumors about added volume here. But we don't know specifics on how much yet. I heard that they opening up at least one of the 2 dormant belts here. We run 6 belts on night sort of 8 belts in the hub now.

The average PTer gets 10-12 hours a week here. I expect that number to go up to 16-18 hours if we get the additional volume.

PTers get 10-12 hours a week? What about their guarantee?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

PTers get 10-12 hours a week? What about their guarantee?

Most of the new kids can't wait to get out of there and couldn't care less about their guarantee.

 

[Fragile]

You guys have to remember one thing about Amazon packages... stop density. You deliver more of these packages in a denser area (often several pieces per stop) so while our rates may be severely discounted, it's still profitable.