Packages are taking 20% longer to deliver than last year

[cheryl]

Packages are taking 20% longer to deliver than last year - Marketwatch

More free shipping, more packages per order this holiday season

Attention online shoppers: Don’t wait until the last minute to do your holiday shopping this year.

It took an average of nearly seven days, or 20% longer than last year, for orders placed Cyber Monday to arrive, according to a study by retail consultancy Kurt Salmon. And more packages are being shipped — an estimated 2.6 per order.

 

[rod]

grease up fellas----the big boom is still coming.

 

[oldngray]

Retailers offering free shipping are tending to choose slower and cheaper methods of shipping, contributing to the longer shipping times, said Steve Osburn, who advises retailers on supply chain issues for Kurt Salmon.

Of course that wouldn't be a good clickbait headline.

Plus it didn't even address the time it took retailers to ship packages which is beyond the control of carriers. I have noticed Amazon takes a lot longer to get orders processed than they used to.

 

[Packmule]

Well we were caught up here. Now a big snow storm comes in tonight through Wednesday morning. Guess the grinch just stole Christmas!

 

[10 point]

I just delivered an Amazon shipped pkg today that the tracking info showed wasn't going to be in our center until Wednesday.

I think we're doing very well... here anyway.

Screw their negative propaganda. The media is rarely happy.

 

[Brownslave688]

I just delivered an Amazon shipped pkg today that the tracking info showed wasn't going to be in our center until Wednesday.

I think we're doing very well... here anyway.

Screw their negative propaganda. The media is rarely happy.

Yep. Maybe the 20% longer is an increase in surepost.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Yep. Maybe the 20% longer is an increase in surepost.

I delivered a package from Oregon today. It was sent out on The 14th.

 

[10 point]

I delivered a package from Oregon today. It was sent out on The 14th.

Misloaded for 6 days in a row or lib?

 

[10 point]

Yep. Maybe the 20% longer is an increase in surepost.

It's probably my walk pace they're talking about.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Misloaded for 6 days in a row or lib?

I just happened to notice the date on the package.

 

[Turdferguson]

I delivered a package from Oregon today. It was sent out on The 14th.

Ground? That would be five business days.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Ground? That would be five business days.

Seemed a bit slow,for all of the work they have been advancing


UPS is paying out some serious coim on preload.

 

[Turdferguson]

Seemed a bit slow,for all of the work they have been advancing


UPS is paying out some serious coim on preload.

Maybe you need to pick up the pace then pal.

 

[10 point]

I just happened to notice the date on the package.

Backordered.

The 20% doesn't even show if it's the back ordered volume from depleted supplies that just got shipped out to the customer thus part of the "freak out" situation.

Part of our bad press in the past was that the shipper didn't stock or arrange stock availability in time for the peak blitz.

It's always "kill the messenger". To bad DHL (Day & a Half Late) isn't around to take their medicine with us and the friend company.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Maybe you need to pick up the pace then pal.

I'm not afraid to go out and deliver. Are you?

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Backordered.

The 20% doesn't even show if it's the back ordered volume from depleted supplies that just got shipped out to the customer thus part of the "freak out" situation.

Part of our bad press in the past was that the shipper didn't stock or arrange stock availability in time for the peak blitz.

It's always "kill the messenger". To bad DHL (Day & a Half Late) isn't around to take their medicine with us and the friend company.

I've seen a few of them out and about

 

[10 point]

I've seen a few of them out and about

Still? With pkgs from 2010 Christmas?
They are no doubt lost.

 

[10 point]

I'm not afraid to go out and deliver. Are you?

In Chicago?

 

[10 point]

There's an immediate opening in Honolulu.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

In Chicago?

Anywhere