Do you know that DHL is the largest logistics and shipping company in the world?That’s an utterly horrible comparison. DHL failed fast and hard. Amazon is taking market share away from multiple sectors and will rival the fictional “Buy N Large” in the near future if no one stops them.
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Not here in the United States. And Airborne seemed to have a bigger footprint here before DHL bought them out. Now seeing a DHL/Airborne van is like spotting a unicorn.
You’re right about that in the US.
The vans that were delivering for Airborne in my area were literally replaced with DHL vans. Some of them remained branded as Airborne for months after the takeover. They carried a big stick to the fight and saturated tv and internet with commercials announcing their arrival. Even took a shot or two at UPS and FedEx in a couple of them. Then….POOF….they faded back to less than what Airborne had been.
Yes. I’m seeing it as well. Been with the company for almost 30 years so I’ve seen the decline you speak of. UPS is more about quantity now then quality now.
I thought that’s what you meant.
You do know what people are doing to waymo vehicles being tested in Arizona..right??
No. Jumping in front of them?
Molotov cocktails into the cab?
I said day to day in 2021. And 20 to 30 years technology time is vastly different now than it was in 2000, 1990 etc. And that bell curve is accelerating.
I agree...mostly.
While I haven’t been here as long as you have, I have been around for 26 years. I agree that the company is more focused on the bottom line than service these days. However, there are guys like this at every building. Show up an hour early for work and talk to anyone who will listen about how we will be out of business. First it was the post office that was going to put us out of business, then DHL ground, then Fed Ex ground, now Amazon. We aren’t even in the same business as Amazon. We don’t have warehouses full of Chinese crap to sell. We just deliver stuff. If one day everything in the world is sold by Amazon then yes we will be out of a job. Until then just show up and collect your paycheck until they tell you that you don’t have a job anymore.
out of Amazon's drivers (I've literally sat and watched them do it), but for our foremost competitor that's just downright sloppy.
I also wonder about this company's future with each shipper we lose. Being a cover driver, I've watched several pickup accounts on the routes I cover basically die on the vine.
And then I see what I saw this week. I had an apartment complex with a locker near the leasing office. I bring everything I can put in there and text the regular driver so she can give me the code so I can use it. I go up there and the first thing I notice is that some bozo FedEx driver just dumped everyone's packages that he had next to the lockers. Didn't even try to put them in. Just dropped it all there. I first saw them on Wednesday. Went back in yesterday, most of them are still there. Had the same route again today and, yup. Still just sitting there. This is an unsecured building that anyone can walk into.
I expect that kind of
Think it was either Ground or Home Delivery.
I believe in most of the country Home and Ground have merged. Havent seen that aggressive dog on the Home trucks in a while.
Those Rubus trailers always smell funky. Like a wet sock and band aids…any hubs actually still use them? The one in our area stopped because packages were getting destroyed
