On 6/5/18 7:09 AM, dadiOH wrote:
"Wade Garrett" wrote in message
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On 6/3/18 5:42 PM, dadiOH wrote:
"Wade Garrett" wrote in message
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Midmorning yesterday, I ordered a battery operated wall clock through
Amazon. It arrived TODAY, Sunday, at about 9:30 AM.

INCREDIBLE!! Amazon has their stuff down pat. Would that others, like
Microsoft, I'm thinking especially of their latest and greatest. Does
all
sorts of stuff people don't want; forced updates that people don't
want.
Lots of stuff people don't wan't and can't stop All the
characteristics
of
a virus.

Amazon says, do it better.

Microsoft says, screw them they'll do as we say because we know better.



One wonders about a business model that thinks it's good idea to spend
the
extra money to deliver a wall clock to a retail customer the next day,
a
Sunday even...

What makes you think it cost them extra money? If the procedure is in
place
there is no reason it can't be normal.



Simple. Most carrier charge more for faster delivery and especially for
Sunday.

Not if it is your own carrier. Which it was.

Nor with anyone else depending upon how you negotiated the terms of your
contract. Your thinking is kinda constricted here, Wade



Even if you own the carrier, next-day delivery operations still cost
more that batching last-mile delivery every few days. Sunday costs more
too, if not now, then soon once you get big enough for the van drivers
to try to organize.

Contract carriers will still cost more for weekend/Sunday delivery too.
UPS, FedEx, DHL only have skeleton staffs on duty weekends and USPS on
Sunday. You could be the world's greatest negotiator but the carriers
won't give you a weekday price for Sunday delivery.

I've rarely bought from Amazon but the very last time I did, I happened
to be looking out a front window as a thuggish-looking Bozo in a
medium-sized white van with the Amazon logo on the door pulled up and
"parked" facing the wrong way in front of my house about 5-6 feet from
the curb.

Instead of coming up the walkway, he proceeded to trudge through my
wife's award-winning flower beds and decorative plantings, then straight
across my carefully-tended lawn to the base of the flight of stairs that
leads to my front door.

He then heaved a package containing a $650 precision electronic device
up the flight of stairs where it slammed against the brick wall before
thudding down onto to the concrete front door landing. I went outside
and called to him but he ignored me, got back in his van and sped off.

Email and phone complaints to Amazon got no response. Concerned about
concealed damage- and annoyed- I decided to not even open the shipping
carton and just returned seals-intact it on their dime for a full refund.

Any contract carrier driver who received a customer complaint like that
would get reprimanded or fired- though probably not a postal droid ;-)

--
Have you ever looked into the mirror and though....hell no, that cant
be right.