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<blockquote data-quote="dmac1" data-source="post: 3598183" data-attributes="member: 60252"><p>You are either ignoring or ignorant of the fact that all those packages are ALREADY taking up warehouse space and Amazon is ALREADY shipping product out of that warehouse space and they are ALREADY loading into trucks, and will have to load it into trucks somewhere at the warehouse. Whether it gets loaded into 10 big trailers or 300 smaller trucks doesn't make that much difference in the space needed if done efficiently. I've worked at locations with 10 dock doors loading cargo van size loads into around 100 trucks in about two hours with trucks scheduled in a particular order. There would almost definitely need to be a schedule . Paying you to move it an extra time sort it manually, then reload it is less efficient. </p><p></p><p>If for a few hours a day they use their warehouse space it to load more trucks, they can later use it to unload incoming product. They may need to schedule incoming deliveries from 10 am to 5 am, and then use it from 6 am to 10 am to load their contracted delivery vehicles. Either way, which efficient modern sorting equipment, they can do whatever they want pretty cheaply. Amazon is in the warehousing business. They are experts at getting packages into and out of a warehouse.</p><p></p><p>And if you really think that drones serving most of the country is near, you need to start thinking more clearly. Too many issues- weather- snow, wind, rain, security, copycats using drones to deliver bombs, etc. Maybe drones could be used sometimes, withing a few blocks of the warehouse, but most of the country isn't within 1-2 miles of a warehouse. And if warehouse space is soooooo valuable, they won't be spending any money building more warehouses. You can't have it both ways. And if they think that loading trucks at their one facility is more efficient than paying you to move it again and paying you to rent warehouse space they can rent or build themselves more cheaply than you can do it, they will do that.</p><p></p><p>You are the one who thinks that you can buy trucks cheaper than fedex, and think that fedex pays ISPs because ISPs are more efficient. when the truth is that fedex ground could hire employees themselves EXCEPT that it exposes express drivers to possible unionization. Amazon doesn't have to worry about an exemption calling themselves an airline.</p><p></p><p>And if paying contractors to move packages an extra time, and paying contractors to rent their own warehouse space is cheaper, how come fedex hasn't already done that???? There may be areas that it is more efficient and cheaper for contractors to only have one truck drive a long distance to retrieve packages from an Amazon location, but rural areas won't need 40 routes anyway. I worked at another location that did receive a 53 foot trailer to distribute to about 20 routes over two days(alternating day delivery areas) and it was a 20 x 40 foot storage location. But there is ZERO efficiency in having many multiple warehouses in a condensed urban area. Amazon ends up paying for that just like fedex ends up paying for all your costs. </p><p></p><p>There is no one way that is most efficient for every possible location. I see Amazon as only wanting a few contractors at each warehouse location, meaning at most a few hundred routes out of each Amazon warehouse. For Amazon, getting a few hundred trucks in and out of a warehouse quickly will be a piece of cake.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dmac1, post: 3598183, member: 60252"] You are either ignoring or ignorant of the fact that all those packages are ALREADY taking up warehouse space and Amazon is ALREADY shipping product out of that warehouse space and they are ALREADY loading into trucks, and will have to load it into trucks somewhere at the warehouse. Whether it gets loaded into 10 big trailers or 300 smaller trucks doesn't make that much difference in the space needed if done efficiently. I've worked at locations with 10 dock doors loading cargo van size loads into around 100 trucks in about two hours with trucks scheduled in a particular order. There would almost definitely need to be a schedule . Paying you to move it an extra time sort it manually, then reload it is less efficient. If for a few hours a day they use their warehouse space it to load more trucks, they can later use it to unload incoming product. They may need to schedule incoming deliveries from 10 am to 5 am, and then use it from 6 am to 10 am to load their contracted delivery vehicles. Either way, which efficient modern sorting equipment, they can do whatever they want pretty cheaply. Amazon is in the warehousing business. They are experts at getting packages into and out of a warehouse. And if you really think that drones serving most of the country is near, you need to start thinking more clearly. Too many issues- weather- snow, wind, rain, security, copycats using drones to deliver bombs, etc. Maybe drones could be used sometimes, withing a few blocks of the warehouse, but most of the country isn't within 1-2 miles of a warehouse. And if warehouse space is soooooo valuable, they won't be spending any money building more warehouses. You can't have it both ways. And if they think that loading trucks at their one facility is more efficient than paying you to move it again and paying you to rent warehouse space they can rent or build themselves more cheaply than you can do it, they will do that. You are the one who thinks that you can buy trucks cheaper than fedex, and think that fedex pays ISPs because ISPs are more efficient. when the truth is that fedex ground could hire employees themselves EXCEPT that it exposes express drivers to possible unionization. Amazon doesn't have to worry about an exemption calling themselves an airline. And if paying contractors to move packages an extra time, and paying contractors to rent their own warehouse space is cheaper, how come fedex hasn't already done that???? There may be areas that it is more efficient and cheaper for contractors to only have one truck drive a long distance to retrieve packages from an Amazon location, but rural areas won't need 40 routes anyway. I worked at another location that did receive a 53 foot trailer to distribute to about 20 routes over two days(alternating day delivery areas) and it was a 20 x 40 foot storage location. But there is ZERO efficiency in having many multiple warehouses in a condensed urban area. Amazon ends up paying for that just like fedex ends up paying for all your costs. There is no one way that is most efficient for every possible location. I see Amazon as only wanting a few contractors at each warehouse location, meaning at most a few hundred routes out of each Amazon warehouse. For Amazon, getting a few hundred trucks in and out of a warehouse quickly will be a piece of cake. [/QUOTE]
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