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Post by ericn on Oct 17, 2021 16:10:40 GMT -6
OK so I have a new neighbor moving in across the hall, seams he is ordering everything new from Amazon, well in the last 3 days and about 25 boxes a third of the boxes are either crushed or the tape is breaking. So be warned!!
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Post by Ward on Oct 18, 2021 18:01:24 GMT -6
Never once had an issue. I was beginning to wonder if I just had great luck or if they were really that good.
Now I know.
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Post by johneppstein on Oct 19, 2021 13:05:26 GMT -6
OK so I have a new neighbor moving in across the hall, seams he is ordering everything new from Amazon, well in the last 3 days and about 25 boxes a third of the boxes are either crushed or the tape is breaking. So be warned!! Sounds to me like a problem with the local delivery people. I order a fair amount of stuff from them and have never had a shipping problem. |
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Post by ericn on Oct 19, 2021 13:53:52 GMT -6
OK so I have a new neighbor moving in across the hall, seams he is ordering everything new from Amazon, well in the last 3 days and about 25 boxes a third of the boxes are either crushed or the tape is breaking. So be warned!! Sounds to me like a problem with the local delivery people. I order a fair amount of stuff from them and have never had a shipping problem. John, if I had not spent all that time in a warehouse, I would agree with you, but boxes collapsing means not enough packing materials, and just looking at the boxes this is causing shifting of what ever is in the boxes, slamming items against the side walls. This is then ripping the little bit of tape they use. Being the geek I am I also checked to see if all these boxes were originally shipped from the same place, nope. I also think they use shipping tape that is rated for the exact load, no safety margin and nobody is treating the load like it’s dynamic. |
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Post by gwlee7 on Oct 21, 2021 5:19:31 GMT -6
Probably kinda hard to worry about the intricacies of load dynamics or which packing tape to use when your boss could give every single employee in the company a $100,000 bonus and still have over $60 billion left over. You don’t even get to take a pee break while your boss
literally flies William Shatner into space on a whim.
Ok, jaded rant over.
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Post by johneppstein on Oct 21, 2021 23:13:01 GMT -6
Sounds to me like a problem with the local delivery people. I order a fair amount of stuff from them and have never had a shipping problem. John, if I had not spent all that time in a warehouse, I would agree with you, but boxes collapsing means not enough packing materials, and just looking at the boxes this is causing shifting of what ever is in the boxes, slamming items against the side walls. This is then ripping the little bit of tape they use. Being the geek I am I also checked to see if all these boxes were originally shipped from the same place, nope. I also think they use shipping tape that is rated for the exact load, no safety margin and nobody is treating the load like it’s dynamic. Amateurs! The bosses, if not the workers themselves. |
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Post by cyrano on Oct 22, 2021 13:32:55 GMT -6
In the last few weeks, I received a Yamaha Stagepas speaker, sent via DPD, well packaged, totally crushed. The only way I can imagine crushing such a speaker, is if something really heavy fell on it from considerable height.
A tape recorder (DPD again) totally ruined.
The next shipment (some rack panels via Mondial Relay) arrived OK, but the packaging had received a beating.
It's just the last few months or so. Never had that kind of trouble in the past. Maybe lost two packages in the last five years or so. Don't know why, but I've changed to pick up for valuable shipments, if at all possible.
These aren't Amazon shipments, but second hand stuff.
Maybe couriers are getting very tired from the surge in online ordering, due to COVID?
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Post by johneppstein on Oct 27, 2021 14:21:24 GMT -6
In the last few weeks, I received a Yamaha Stagepas speaker, sent via DPD, well packaged, totally crushed. The only way I can imagine crushing such a speaker, is if something really heavy fell on it from considerable height. A tape recorder (DPD again) totally ruined. The next shipment (some rack panels via Mondial Relay) arrived OK, but the packaging had received a beating. It's just the last few months or so. Never had that kind of trouble in the past. Maybe lost two packages in the last five years or so. Don't know why, but I've changed to pick up for valuable shipments, if at all possible. These aren't Amazon shipments, but second hand stuff. Maybe couriers are getting very tired from the surge in online ordering, due to COVID? Substandard labor. Many of the exprienced people quit, so now they've got monkeys. Not you, XX! |
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Post by cyrano on Oct 30, 2021 16:50:15 GMT -6
That's a bit harsh, John.
Do you have any idea of the working conditions vs pay in courier services?
Other circumstances too. In late januari of this year, the roof of a large DPD sorting center in the Netherlands caved in due to snow. Effects were still around in March.
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