[Boatanchors] Shipping damage

[Grant Youngman]

A similar curmudgeonly view … with a different bent :-)

> On Nov 25, 2018, at 5:43 PM, RAY FRIESS <rayfrijr at msn.com> wrote:
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> Yea .. I guess it is asking too much now days for a company to provide the service and care you pay for and expect.   Many companies just don't have common decency anymore.  Theyre only interested in how much money they can line their pockets with instead of actually providing a good service that the customer wants and is entitled to expect.

Maybe.  But in my experience the root of the issue goes to the sender.   To be blunt, if you pack something valuable and/or heavy in peanuts and some bubble wrap, and single wall cardboard, you get what you deserve.  And if that’s what your shipper packs it in, then you should find a packer who knows how to do it right.  A properly designed or packed container will generally survive.  And sometimes you still get the black bean … whatever.  But if it happens to things you ship consistently, then I suggest a more “inward” focus … 

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> It's not surprise to me that the Post Office continues to go deeper and deeper down the toilet, especially when it comes to letters.  Any day of the week, I would opt to send an email instead of counting on the post office actually deliver a piece of mail.  That's why they keep jacking up rates.   

That isn’t at all the entire reason, although it is true that letter mail is declining.  We don’t seem to be able to think (or even want to think it seems) in thoughts longer than 280 characters anymore — something like a 1/3 eyebrow painted by van Gogh.

> Even catalogs ..  a company can deliver a whole catalog by PDF in an email and doesnt have to pay the post office to carry it to your house, taking a week or more to get it to you.    

The reason these bits of garbage are still sent (and I think will always be sent in mass quantities) in paper form is that you (the recipient) at least have to glance at it and the headline "price buster" sale and the $20 OFF coupon before it goes in the paper recycle container.  You might even have to handle the paper more than once.  A PDF from one of these yayhoos goes directly to trash … 

> When Amazon starts its own delivery fleet, youre going to see screams of agony from the post office, UPS and FedEx because they are really going to take it in the shorts.  

Unfortunately, no one in government seems to care about anti-trust anymore.  I guess because the corporate donor class and campaign contribution $$$$ are the currency du jour in Washington and everywhere else.  Bezos can buy anyone he needs … and Washington is doing everything it can to ravage and kill the USPS so it can enrich itself further by privatizing one more public service.  Operationally, the USPS is profitable.  If you’re unaware, do some Google searches on how the USPS retirement plan is being used as a weapon to kill it.

Grant NQ5T



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