What's the latest on Amazon?

[iruhnman630]

I'm sitting home today. Our layoff and sick lists are a mile long, and the fresh batch of newbies that UPS was so desperately trying to recruit are waiting in the wings due to missing volume.

Apparently a big chunk of expected Amazon volume hasn't materialized.

Did they finally drop the bomb on UPS?

 

[FrigidFTSup]

No.


Next question

 

[browner89]

Probably have 3x as much Amazon coming through local sort than we did 3-4 months ago. If anything it looks like we took on another delivery companies Amazon volume, though I have no idea if Fed Ex is actually seeing less.

I just know we're seeing a lot more.

 

[It will be fine]

Amazon volume is very market specific. There is no country wide answer to this question.

 

[bottomups]

Is that why I'm seeing so many drones fly overhead?

 

[Brownslave688]

I'm sitting home today. Our layoff and sick lists are a mile long, and the fresh batch of newbies that UPS was so desperately trying to recruit are waiting in the wings due to missing volume.

Apparently a big chunk of expected Amazon volume hasn't materialized.

Did they finally drop the bomb on UPS?

Maybe you were expected to get a distribution center close and didn't.

 

[barnyard]

Maybe you were expected to get a distribution center close and didn't.

A local distribution center meant a loss of volume for my center. Amazon has regionals delivering out of it.

 

[Brownslave688]

A local distribution center meant a loss of volume for my center. Amazon has regionals delivering out of it.

I figured more feeder jobs.....

 

[Scoot]

A local distribution center meant a loss of volume for my center. Amazon has regionals delivering out of it.

We just had a distribution center begin operation near us. Volume has been extremely low at our center for this time of year. We had enough guys laid off Monday to field both sides of a football team.

 

[Foamer Pyle]

We had a distribution center open here, and I can see a difference in my car. The post office and Laser ship are delivering most of the Amazon packages. Amazon can't have us delivering their packages, when they charge their customers nothing, or almost nothing for shipping.

 

[onehandsolo]

A distribution center opened near my center as well. The thing is we still get a lot of Amazon from other distribution centers.

 

[PT Car Washer]

We had a distribution center open here, and I can see a difference in my car. The post office and Laser ship are delivering most of the Amazon packages. Amazon can't have us delivering their packages, when they charge their customers nothing, or almost nothing for shipping.

And how long can a delivery service stay in business making little or no profit just to fill the trucks up with deliveries.

 

[Bottom rung]

A local distribution center meant a loss of volume for my center. Amazon has regionals delivering out of it.

So what's going to happen when the regionals can't keep up in a about five weeks...

 

[onehandsolo]

So what's going to happen when the regionals can't keep up in a about five weeks...

We get slammed

 

[Jackburton]

We get slammed

And we slam them with higher rates.

 

[AutoZone]

I work the unload/sort, and my hub has been inundated with irreg Amazon feeders.. I mean 53' after 53' feeders full of 70+ lbs huge shipments. UPS freight must be loving this! We have a distribution center close by here in Florida. These completey jam us up as our hub wasn't meant for irreg volume like this..

 

[upschuck]

And we slam them with higher rates.

Hope so.

 

[Brownslave688]

I work the unload/sort, and my hub has been inundated with irreg Amazon feeders.. I mean 53' after 53' feeders full of 70+ lbs huge shipments. UPS freight must be loving this! We have a distribution center close by here in Florida. These completey jam us up as our hub wasn't meant for irreg volume like this..

Why would freight love it?

 

[Brownslave688]

Hope so.

If I were a betting man I'd bet not.

 

[upschuck]

If I were a betting man I'd bet not.

I know, where else would they go? They have already maxed out everyone else's systems.