Amazon to the post office?

[MC0493]

Not sure if this is happening elsewhere or not. Everytime i ask someone i get a different answer. Basically all the amazon volume in my hub has gone to the post offices. We're way down on routes, people going home. Sups say it's an experiment, other guys say its bs since negotiations start next month. Anyone else have any changes?

 

[35years]

Don't you remember? We lost Amazon 3 years ago. The sky is still falling.

 

[MC0493]

I do not, only been around since 2015. Idgaf, just kind of wondering.

 

[35years]

Amazon comes and goes.
Did they open a large facility near you with their own drivers?
P.O. usually messes up too much, and they come back.
Within 2 months there will be too much Amazon for every delivery company.

 

[MC0493]

No facilities that i'm aware of. Post offices i've visited are complaining about it since they can't handle it. Meanwhile now we've got 5-10 drivers going home. Pretty sure most were casuals anyway.

 

[iowa boy]

Around here, Amazon is drop shipping their smaller package volume via pallets to our mail distribution center and the distribution center is hauling these pallets to a couple of local PO's for final mile delivery, cutting us out of the equation.

 

[Ghost in the Darkness]

I'm starting to see Fedex deliver amazon again... not as much as we do but more than i had noticed in the past couple years. Post office can't take the large stuff in volume because they don't have the capacity... so no I don't think they are getting it but I honestly could care less if they do. I would love to see big brown scramble to make up some of that volume should we lose it, all those customers they ticked off with the constant late air problems.

 

[35years]

You understand management will post we are loosing volume over and over again during contract negotiations. The sky is falling...

How many drivers feel they are UNDERdispatched?
14 hour days are just around the corner.

 

[Staydryitsraining]

Although 14 hour days aren't happening normal start times here are 930 and 945 with average rtb times around 930. We have had around 20 rentals all year because we don't have enough trucks.

You understand management will post we are loosing volume over and over again during contract negotiations. The sky is falling...

How many drivers feel they are UNDERdispatched?
14 hour days are just around the corner.

 

[Wally]

Put in sales lead.

 

[Brownslave688]

You understand management will post we are loosing volume over and over again during contract negotiations. The sky is falling...

How many drivers feel they are UNDERdispatched?
14 hour days are just around the corner.

Bitches about the company's sky is falling attitude.


Every post made has a sky is falling attitude.

 

[Wally]

Bitches about the company's sky is falling attitude.


Every post made has a sky is falling attitude.

Has a foggy perspective?

 

[Dr.Brownz]

Bitches about the company's sky is falling attitude.


Every post made has a sky is falling attitude.

The companies propaganda must be working.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

We lost 40% of our Amazon back in May but it has been trickling back. Still not at the levels we had back then though.

 

[Wally]

We lost 40% of our Amazon back in May but it has been trickling back. Still not at the levels we had back then though.

We should tie up a year round contract. No deal, no peak service.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

We should tie up a year round contract. No deal, no peak service.

Their discounts are based on volume shipped.

 

[Wally]

Time for hard ball. Peak is our ace in the hole.

 

[Shift Inhibit]

We lost 40% of our Amazon back in May but it has been trickling back. Still not at the levels we had back then though.

Management has been telling employees volume has been down since 1907..

 

[MC0493]

Around here, Amazon is drop shipping their smaller package volume via pallets to our mail distribution center and the distribution center is hauling these pallets to a couple of local PO's for final mile delivery, cutting us out of the equation.

Sounds like what's going on here. Very few amazon packages in the trucks anymore, very low volume for us overall. They're also saying the hurricane is affecting things but i'm calling bs on that. Now bid routes are starting to get cut.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

Management has been telling employees volume has been down since 1907..

Most drivers seemed to notice we weren't screwing around when the preload was wrapped everyday for a few weeks.