{"id":534,"date":"2023-01-05T10:41:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T17:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/05\/amazon-to-get-a-bit-more-suckier\/"},"modified":"2023-01-05T10:41:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T17:41:44","slug":"amazon-to-get-a-bit-more-suckier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/05\/amazon-to-get-a-bit-more-suckier\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon To Get A Bit More Suckier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Amazon is laying off more of their employees<\/a>. I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019ve noticed a downward spiral in that industry over the last couple years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Used to be, when I\u2019d ordered something as a Prime Member I would have the options to have it here by next week, in 3 days, or I could choose to have it shipped overnight if it was a Prime item for a very small fee. $2 or $4 I think it was. Those were the glory days and are far behind us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now when I order something, Amazon tells me it\u2019ll be here sometime between Valentine\u2019s Day and Labor Day weekend. It\u2019s not too fuckin sure. It remains in a \u201cPreparing to ship\u201d status for several days. Get this – even when the goddamn item is sitting in a warehouse, right here in El Paso. WHERE I LIVE!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wasn\u2019t Amazon building\/opening these warehouses all over our United States in order to minimize the time it takes to get from the warehouse to the doorstep? Silly of me to think that. What\u2019s happened instead is, I place an order on a Monday. Amazon thinks about it for a couple days. Tells me it will arrive sometime between next Monday through Friday. The order remains in \u201cpreparing to ship\u201d status for the entire week. Saturday I\u2019ll get notification that it has been transferred to the local carrier (USPS). The local Post Office receives it and delivers it on that next Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To make matters even better\/worse, Amazon has created their own shipping company. Instead of paying UPS or FEDEX to ship our goods to us, Amazon uses their own. You\u2019ve seen all them Amazon Freight-liners on the highway. They transport my shaving soap from Maryland to El Paso on an Amazon Prime branded truck then deposit it at the local post office for final delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This takes me to my perfect storm. Building all these warehouses along with creating your own shipping line theoretically increases your game, right? Wrong. I ordered an item that was sitting in our local Amazon warehouse right off I-10E. It should\u2019ve been handed over to the post office that day and maybe delivered the following. I was provided the tracking info. I watched it literally get on the truck in El Paso and then head out of El Paso. It was placed on an Amazon truck headed towards Dallas. Item made it to Lubbock (I think it was) before they realized the error. Gotta give them some street cred for that. They realized they fucked up. And fixed it. Amazon removed it from the truck, sent it back to me via USPS from that location and provided me with a new tracking number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So yeah, Amazon. G\u2019head and cut more people. It\u2019s got to get better? Right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quote of The Day<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cREPUBLICANS, DO NOT TURN A GREAT TRIUMPH INTO A GIANT & EMBARRASSING DEFEAT. IT\u2019S TIME TO CELEBRATE, YOU DESERVE IT. Kevin McCarthy will do a good job, and maybe even a GREAT JOB \u2013 JUST WATCH! \u201d – Said the man who should know a thing or two about a giant and embarrassing defeat.<\/p>\n\n\n

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