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I used to order some specialty seed for my fields from a big seed company 180 miles away.
About 6 ... 50 lb.... bags of a certain kind of seed.
It got delivered to my farm by whatever carrier was the cheapest.
A few years back the seed company said they would be sending my order via a freight company and it would be on a pallet in their warehouse 35 miles away ready for me to pick up.
He stated the reason the other carriers would not accept 50 lb sacks anymore is drivers were reporting injured backs ( especially from women who were hired) and thus 30 lbs would be the limit.
When a company (UPS, USPC, FED EX. SPEEDY ) has to deal with Workman Comp claims, they find a solution to lower the frequency of those claims.
I don't blame them at all !
I do blame them, the postal service in this thread if they are promising door to door deliver however. The postal service should never accept anything that the company recommends a team to lift. Its carriers are always alone and face the same hazards as that company's warehouse workers and they are not equipped with mechanical aids to help in that effort. There are other services for those heavy items since a union shop can not enforce a continued testing and assessment of its workforce to prove that they are still physically capable to do more that the shipper recommends.
The point which I was so obviously trying to make is that if you pay for a service that is what you should get.
I never said it was a woman but while we are on that subject, when my mail carrier was a guy I didn't have the problem.
"Equal work for equal pay" remember that? Well, if a woman cannot lift the packages she is paid to deliver how is that equal work for equal pay? Isn't that really equal pay for less work?
Anyway not my issue, I don't mean to be cold hearted but this is business. If I pay a company to do a job and the employee of that company cannot handle it, find someone who can, don't take the job or refund my money. If the postal service cannot ship packages over a certain weight then don't accept the package. Make sense?
Yes, they filed a false report saying they tried to deliver but could not. But I was home and they filed the report before they even delivered our regular mail so it was too obvious.
Too many people out of work, so lets stop this pandering to those who cannot do the job and get someone who can. The postage rates keep rising so there seems to be no problem with taking my money, only getting what I paid for.
The postage rates keep rising so there seems to be no problem with taking my money, only getting what I paid for.
But you paid someone else to set up the shipping right? So you really have no idea just what sort of arrangements they made? I think you need to complain to the seller and let them know you aren't satisfied with their shipping method, and suggest they use a different carrier.
But you paid someone else to set up the shipping right? So you really have no idea just what sort of arrangements they made? I think you need to complain to the seller and let them know you aren't satisfied with their shipping method, and suggest they use a different carrier.
I tried that with Amazon. I complained because my postal carrier frequently delivers my packages to the wrong address and tried to get out of delivering 20 pound bags of dog food (he scans them as "business closed" when I live in a single-family-home in a subdivisdion). Amazon said they cant use FedEx or UPS because USPS is cheaper. And, of course the post office doesnt care.
I order online all the time, especially my cat food, and I've never had a problem because everything comes either by UPS or FedEx. I order my cat food from www.chewy.com, and FedEx delivers the heavy (30lb-50lb) boxes right to my door within two days.
I tried that with Amazon. I complained because my postal carrier frequently delivers my packages to the wrong address and tried to get out of delivering 20 pound bags of dog food (he scans them as "business closed" when I live in a single-family-home in a subdivisdion). Amazon said they cant use FedEx or UPS because USPS is cheaper. And, of course the post office doesn't care.
I get the "business closed" message usually from Fedex when the driver is running late thus he still has packages on his truck at 6pm and I'm in a private residence also. My USPS delivers Amazon packages 7 days a week and I'm in the far out rural part of the county. I have no problem with USPS delivering my 30lb bags of dog food (even with those small jeep-like trucks they use).
Amazon itself doesn't make the decision of how it ships. That is the choice of the shipping warehouse. Personally I think the decision is left up to some kid throwing darts at the wall as I'll have the dog food arrive via USPS and a DVD arrive via UPS.
...Amazon itself doesn't make the decision of how it ships. That is the choice of the shipping warehouse. Personally I think the decision is left up to some kid throwing darts at the wall as I'll have the dog food arrive via USPS and a DVD arrive via UPS.
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Originally Posted by Pruzhany
Try Jet.com. They use also use Fedex and for some reason their packages arrive the next business day.
Yes, Amazon's cusftomer service dept said the same thing about how the shipping warehouse determines the shipping method. And thanks for the info about jet.com. I'll try them.
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