Amazon package hurlers..not even a gate here

[Kraniac]

RAMd®d wrote:
Back when Amazon routinely did a great job packing, tossing packages wasn't a bit deal.

And AMZ packages delivered by UPS seemed to be a little worse for way in my personal experience.

A light toss over a tall fence would bother me a bit. Throwing them to save a few steps and a couple of seconds is routine, but unacceptable.

I hope people posting video are also tweeting it.

It should be the absolute last option...there are plenty of 'things' that can't survive a throw even with decent packaging..these folks need to be taught that you never really know what's in the damn box..

[ka jowct]

Amazon’s packaging can be pretty bad. The box is frequently too big for the item(s), and they never use enough packing inside to keep items from sliding around. I have gotten boxes that were starting to come open due to not enough tape being used. In one case, the box contained something heavy (bag of bird seed, I think) and a couple of smaller items. The bag slid back and forth in the box, until gaps opened along the seams where the top meets the sides, and the CD in that order must have fallen out in transit. There is no way that I could discover to report one item missing from a shipment of several, BTW.

[Kraniac]

...Damn~ ~ ~salad for lunch... AGAIN..spun....not tossed...

[vision63]

Looks like an Amazon Flex vehicle. It's essentially a delivery service on par with an Uber driver. Gig economy work. Amazon burns them out by requiring the drivers to handle many more packages than are reasonable. They can also use their own vehicles. YouTube is filled with what that work is like.

[Kraniac]

vision63 wrote:
Looks like an Amazon Flex vehicle. It's essentially a delivery service on par with an Uber driver. Gig economy work. Amazon burns them out by requiring the drivers to handle many more packages than are reasonable. They can also use their own vehicles. YouTube is filled with what that work is like.

That is all I see in my area..they're all just folks using their personal cars with the whole car stacked to the roof with boxes..back seat, front..

Still..it doesn't take a helluva lot, to not, throw peoples shit around.


EDIT://FUCK Amazon..I've been reading about them/Bezos all evening..Im not using them any more for anything..

[vision63]

Kraniac wrote:
[quote=vision63]
Looks like an Amazon Flex vehicle. It's essentially a delivery service on par with an Uber driver. Gig economy work. Amazon burns them out by requiring the drivers to handle many more packages than are reasonable. They can also use their own vehicles. YouTube is filled with what that work is like.

That is all I see in my area..they're all just folks using their personal cars with the whole car stacked to the roof with boxes..back seat, front..

Still..it doesn't take a helluva lot, to not, throw peoples shit around.


EDIT://FUCK Amazon..I've been reading about them/Bezos all evening..Im not using them any more for anything..
You're right. It's a job for professionals. It's a way for people to make money though. But it's not really sustainable for them. We're supposed to be trying to transition people into doing meaningful work in a crazy economy.

[RAMd®d]

It should be the absolute last option...

No argument, though I prefer somebody drop a package over the fence than leave it on the porch. There are far too many incidents of people driving up after a carrier of any company drops off packages, and scooping them up. And far too few arrests.


there are plenty of 'things' that can't survive a throw even with decent packaging..

Then the packaging is insufficient for the purpose or they shouldn't be sent via mass delivery. Throwing packages is no doubt SOP for any carrier, and they'll get bounced around at one or more points of delivery. That's just the way it is... Handle with Care does not scale well. Sad but true.


I've had three incidents with AMZ that I can recall:

Two screwdrivers I ordered shipped in a bubble wrap envelope that arrived empty. (Third-party seller)

An iMac was fulfilled by AMZ, shipped via UPS in the retail box and a larger single-wall cardboard box with a few of the puffy air bags. The boxed shipped flat, with the iMac on it's back or face, I'm sure, and the outside box was extensively damaged. I should have refused it. It didn't get much use at the time, but then quickly developed problems. Apple basically rebuilt it, thanks to Apple Care. (AMZ/UPS)

I re-ordered the two screwdrivers and got to child's coloring books, but from AMZ, not the third-party seller. (AMZ)

So their record isn't spotless with me, but they make things right without a quibble.