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Societal breakdown of basic services….

Discussion in 'General' started by Rebel635, Feb 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM.

  1. TurboBlew

    TurboBlew EeVee range testor and subsidy recipient

    Sorry about that. Im pretty sure every logistic company is hurting for bodies.
     
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  2. dtalbott

    dtalbott Driving somewhere, hauling something.

    Inside, yes.
     
  3. nigel smith

    nigel smith Well-Known Member

    I'm going to need you to Google that for me and report back.
     
  4. Boman Forklift

    Boman Forklift Well-Known Member

    I'm going with they tried to leave you a message, but you don't have it setup.
     
  5. groundhogday

    groundhogday Well-Known Member

    Every few months UPS drops packages that aren't addressed to me. They're for an address that doesn't actually exist. Seems to be a scam. It's always car seat covers. No company name, just "Returns Department". I flag down UPS drivers, give them the package, explain that it's a non-existent address, and definitely not mine. They keep dropping them off.
     
  6. motion

    motion Nihilistic Member

    The local post office routinely throws my packages and letters in the garbage, instead of putting them in my box. They claim the addressing isn't correct, and of course they are wrong. Then they go on FB and tell everyone they're overworked and under staffed.
     
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  7. tony 340

    tony 340 Well-Known Member

    That's the beauty of government

    You can pay more , but still get the same service
     
  8. pickled egg

    pickled egg Well-Known Member

    4 hours over two days, I don’t think they got that lucky.

    Especially given the rest of the horseshit I had to endure to get a simple fucking answer.
     
  9. dtalbott

    dtalbott Driving somewhere, hauling something.

    From my son's experience, they are overworked and understaffed.

    14 hour days for 21 straight days wears a body down.
     
  10. In Your Corner

    In Your Corner Dungeonesque Crab AI Version

    The Post Office needs to be privatized and run like a business.
     
  11. PatricksDad

    PatricksDad Won’t die a blob

    I've been kicking around the edges of the USPS for 30+ years and that would be nigh on impossible, not to mention corralling the squirrels on capitol hill to amend the constitution.
     
  12. motion

    motion Nihilistic Member

    They should just abolish the damn PO and everyone goes digital. Its just a matter of time, anyway. Let the private couriers handle the packages.
     
  13. Venom51

    Venom51 John Deere Equipment Expert - Not really

    Life will kill you. Smoking is just an accelerant.
     
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  14. motoboy

    motoboy Well-Known Member

    Read "Going Postal" by Terry Pratchett.
     
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  15. motoboy

    motoboy Well-Known Member

    Like in "Blazing Saddles"

    "A man drink like that and doesn't eat is going to die."

    "When?"
     
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  16. Venom51

    Venom51 John Deere Equipment Expert - Not really

    Don't get me started about not having a mailbox in front of the house and having to traverse across the neighborhood to the shares mail center they insist all new developments build for them. But I can also regale you with stories of FedExcriment just tossing shit out in the street at the gates because they couldn't be bothered to enter their gate code.

    But I also understand why in some cases. When the demand goes up but your pay never seems to go up with it then what incentive do you have beyond pride to do a decent job?

    The only one that does a decent job up here in our area is UPS. Our regular driver Steven is a solid worker. We make sure he always has something to eat and drink when he leaves our place and we supply him with dog treats for the meatheads..
     
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  17. dtalbott

    dtalbott Driving somewhere, hauling something.

    They'd have to pay a hell of a lot more to get people to deliver.
     
  18. LukeLucky

    LukeLucky Well-Known Member

    I'd just like to add in here that the people I interact with daily at the shop are all good people that put in real effort and do a good job. UPS, USPS, FedEx, & DHL all have solid final handlers for us here. Amazon deliveries are prob the only exception with most of them looking like they're 18 and just want to get through the delivery process as quickly as possible sometimes making eye contact and just setting the little box down inside the edge of the door and leaving.

    I have experienced more background logistics issues with USPS though. We had a package come from Italy that bounced around to 6 different local offices (including our local one), just to get pushed to another wrong office. That package was in LA and had passed customs and was "in transit" for almost 3 weeks locally before they could figure out how to read the address. It was written clearly on the package as "2013 Lincoln Blvd." Someone at USPS entered it into their system as "Lincoln 2013 BL U D" and no one could figure that out. The "v" had a very distinct and obvious point to it making me wonder if it was the first time that worker had seen boulevard abbreviated... while working at USPS...
     
  19. motion

    motion Nihilistic Member

    Probably a Ruskie
     
  20. nigel smith

    nigel smith Well-Known Member

    The USPS spent $100 million to build a regional hub in Charlotte NC with a state of the art system capable of identifying any motorcycle parts that I order and inserting them into the Hadron super collider, where they circle indefinitely.
     

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