DumbTruckDriver
Allergic to cardboard.
Why so upset? Did a driver misdeliver your hippie lettuce?
Amazon to start pick up service
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Joined 1-5. Probably a seasonal who didn’t make the cut.
DumbTruckDriver
Allergic to cardboard.
"But the HR lady said I'd be driving the big brown trucks in two months TOPS!"
1000% what I was thinking
Staydryitsraining
Well-Known Member
Did that in 2015
Limper
Out For Delivery
No, no, no.
Big retailers like Target, Walmart, and Macy’s HATE Amazon and will never use a carrier that has any affiliation with them. Think about it.....Walmart saying to Amazon “Here’s the list of our valued customers, but please don’t try to steal them”.
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thisjobaintforeverybody
Guest
https://www.bizjournals.com/memphis...-answer-the-big-question-hould-fedex-and.html
Finally, a more realistic and informed article on the current situation!
Finally, a more realistic and informed article on the current situation!
purehavanne
Well-Known Member
I would actually try to get leads but my truck is already blown up every damn day.
zubenelgenubi
I'm a star
Hate or not, if using Amazon to deliver their packages is better for their bottom line, the other major retailers will use them.
Where exactly is Amazon going to find all these workers to deliver 5 billion orders? That could be 10 billion in 5 years.
CanOSup
One of them
6.7 million persons in the US are unemployed. Im sure they can find some employees. After all their standards are not that high hence the "Driveway Crapper"
oldupsman
Well-Known Member
Yes they could find people but what about buildings and equipment. People just don't realize just how
huge UPS really is. I've heard all this before with the DHL debacle.
CanOSup
One of them
Amazon has grown beyond what anyone could have predicted. If we are too believe they cannot find or purchase buildings and equipment we are delusional. Comparing Amazon to DHL is not a fair comparison for the Giant that is Amazon.
Jkloc420
Do you need an air compressor or tire gauge
there is enough volumes for everyone
zubenelgenubi
I'm a star
No idea what that has to do with what I wrote.
Well read what you wrote.
zubenelgenubi
I'm a star
Don't need to, I wrote it. But...
do I really have to explain this?
I said if it helps their bottom line, other retailers will use Amazon to deliver packages. That was strictly in response to @Limper's post I quoted saying that other retailers hate Amazon and would never use a carrier associated with them.
You extrapolated from what I wrote, and it appears that you think I was saying that other retailers would use an Amazon carrier exclusively. I never said that, never implied it. The point I was countering was that other retailers would never use Amazon.
To continue to beat a dead horse, because I'm in the mood, I said "if... it is better for their bottom line". Follow that logic out to its conclusion. In your scenario, Amazon would be unable to staff up enough (not even mentioning building the infrastructure) to handle all of the volume of other retailers. If that is the case, shipping all of their orders through Amazon would necessarily not help their bottom line, so they would not do that. The concept is so simple and obvious it should not even need to be brought up. Thus, what you wrote had no relation to my comment.
All of that is not to say that if Amazon were to be successful running a carrier service on a small scale that they couldn't expand over time. I doubt they could get to a point where they were shoulder to shoulder with FedEx or UPS any time in the next 5 years, but beyond that, it's anyone's guess.
If they begin rural delivery it will different than the way we do it.cant make Money driving 300 miles and delivering 50 stops
