Losing Amazon completely

[BluesClues]

Was told our office is losing Amazon completely Sept. 21 anyone else know anything about this? Last I knew Amazon and the PO had another contract with 1/3 less volume for us. Now we’re told no more Amazon at all by the end of September… is this local or nationwide?

 

[Worve]

It’s been happening all over the country. All offices around us lost Amazon recently. We still get full drop off twice a day here. It may cone back in full for you or as supplemental Amazon.

 

[Wilco183]

Was told our office is losing Amazon completely Sept. 21 anyone else know anything about this? Last I knew Amazon and the PO had another contract with 1/3 less volume for us. Now we’re told no more Amazon at all by the end of September… is this local or nationwide?

You're probably being affected by this ongoing Amazon initiative.

Amazon’s Expansion Into Rural America

What Does Amazon’s Expansion Into Rural America Mean for the USPS?By Dan MooneyNAPS North Central Area…

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[hockey94]

Was told our office is losing Amazon completely Sept. 21 anyone else know anything about this? Last I knew Amazon and the PO had another contract with 1/3 less volume for us. Now we’re told no more Amazon at all by the end of September… is this local or nationwide?

We would hear cr&p about, no more ups, or whatever new “idea” for US to implement, MOST of the time nothing changed. Believe it when you see no more Amazon, especially, with holidays around the corner.

 

[TheMailman302]

Yea, that happened here, we still get plenty. UPS was gonna stop too, member that? I member

 

[jaymacgthree]

I heard that rumor locally yesterday. I say bring it on but as with most USPS rumors nothing ever materializes. Amazon's own delivery service already struggles, if they want to keep their customers and grow the business they will continue to depend on USPS to deliver for them.

 

[DB.Cooper]

I heard that rumor locally yesterday. I say bring it on but as with most USPS rumors nothing ever materializes. Amazon's own delivery service already struggles, if they want to keep their customers and grow the business they will continue to depend on USPS to deliver for them.

I sometimes wondered why USPS never tried taking over moving parcels from Amazon warehouses to the PO's.... I mean Amazon gets the parcels to the PO for day of delivery last mile deliveries.... why has USPS not tried to expand their role on Amazon deliveries...

 

[really]

Make no mistake nobody delivers it for cheaper than the post office. I see 2 amazon delivery vans and also people delivering out of their cars. I still have a lot of amazon every day.
We too were told amazon was going to deliver they own stuff but it never happened

 

[DownFall]

I stopped and talked to a woman on my route and she told me that she just turned her house into an Amazon hub. It's a small business now. The bigger truck/van drops off large square bags full of Amazon parcels/spurs and she can hire employees to deliver them from her home. She said she can go up to 9 miles radius. There is another one a few blocks from her home and another one a few miles away. That's three hubs on my route. The other rural route has had a very dramatic drop in Amazon packages but my route still gets too many, imo. This seems to be the future. It's similar to DoorDash, or Uber drivers where you work from an app on your phone and use your personal vehicle. I often see two people in the cars as well. Seems like a good gig for many needing work in the rural areas.

 

[Superdaveh100]

I stopped and talked to a woman on my route and she told me that she just turned her house into an Amazon hub. It's a small business now. The bigger truck/van drops off large square bags full of Amazon parcels/spurs and she can hire employees to deliver them from her home. She said she can go up to 9 miles radius. There is another one a few blocks from her home and another one a few miles away. That's three hubs on my route. The other rural route has had a very dramatic drop in Amazon packages but my route still gets too many, imo. This seems to be the future. It's similar to DoorDash, or Uber drivers where you work from an app on your phone and use your personal vehicle. I often see two people in the cars as well. Seems like a good gig for many needing work in the rural areas.

Amazon Flex is what they call it. Carriers come to the hub and then do their thing.

 

[Boomer62]

Was told our office is losing Amazon completely Sept. 21 anyone else know anything about this? Last I knew Amazon and the PO had another contract with 1/3 less volume for us. Now we’re told no more Amazon at all by the end of September… is this local or nationwide?

We were told we were losing it Seotember 16th.

 

[Worve]

Even if you all do lose it, it usually doesn’t stay gone. Most the offices near us have lost it in the last 3-6 months. Most of the same offices have since gained a portion of it back. Much of the subcontractors who do Amazon quickly find out it doesn’t pay. They pick and choose what area they keep and refuse the no profit margin areas.

 

[DB.Cooper]

LOL... Yeah, I guess Bezos may always be willing to give USPS the no profit margin areas... I remember UPS always gave me the humongous parcels that had to go to a 3rd floor apartment, or the ones with the long crappy driveways, or mean dogs, etc.... USPS is always good for stuff nobody else wants.. and stuff that's money losers...

 

[BillyBoi]

I stopped and talked to a woman on my route and she told me that she just turned her house into an Amazon hub. It's a small business now. The bigger truck/van drops off large square bags full of Amazon parcels/spurs and she can hire employees to deliver them from her home. She said she can go up to 9 miles radius. There is another one a few blocks from her home and another one a few miles away. That's three hubs on my route. The other rural route has had a very dramatic drop in Amazon packages but my route still gets too many, imo. This seems to be the future. It's similar to DoorDash, or Uber drivers where you work from an app on your phone and use your personal vehicle. I often see two people in the cars as well. Seems like a good gig for many needing work in the rural areas.

This will be all the rage for a while. Then people will start to have issues with their insurance and will find it isn't worth the trouble of taking on the responsibility of a small business owner with none of the perks. Then amazon will cut costs as it's currently trying to sweeten the deal to attract new suckers to take on their responsibility and liability for them. More people will leave and it will just become those willing to work for nothing or those on govt support working at a loss because they come out ahead with the support anyway. So essentially the government will end up subsidizing amazon rather than just drop less cash supporting USPS every few years than we send out to one country in aid in a single year.

Feels good to be born in the good ol corporate captured age of the USA.

Rant aside, we 'lost' amazon for a while. Now here lately I've seen 1.2x to 1.5x what we had been getting most of the year. I imagine we will also see a ramp up going into peak but maybe they'll sucker in enough people to run their holiday parcels for them that we will be free of them. In total for all parcels, I was averaging about 100ish parcels most days to seeing a slight bump to 120 average lately with the increase.

 

[BluesClues]

This will be all the rage for a while. Then people will start to have issues with their insurance and will find it isn't worth the trouble of taking on the responsibility of a small business owner with none of the perks. Then amazon will cut costs as it's currently trying to sweeten the deal to attract new suckers to take on their responsibility and liability for them. More people will leave and it will just become those willing to work for nothing or those on govt support working at a loss because they come out ahead with the support anyway. So essentially the government will end up subsidizing amazon rather than just drop less cash supporting USPS every few years than we send out to one country in aid in a single year.

Feels good to be born in the good ol corporate captured age of the USA.

Rant aside, we 'lost' amazon for a while. Now here lately I've seen 1.2x to 1.5x what we had been getting most of the year. I imagine we will also see a ramp up going into peak but maybe they'll sucker in enough people to run their holiday parcels for them that we will be free of them. In total for all parcels, I was averaging about 100ish parcels most days to seeing a slight bump to 120 average lately with the increase.

Hit the nail on the head.

 

[BluesClues]

Even if you all do lose it, it usually doesn’t stay gone. Most the offices near us have lost it in the last 3-6 months. Most of the same offices have since gained a portion of it back. Much of the subcontractors who do Amazon quickly find out it doesn’t pay. They pick and choose what area they keep and refuse the no profit margin areas.

Our area is actually being deactivated. We “lost” Amazon a few years ago, gained some back but they are telling me that offices that get deactivated will not get anything from Amazon, not even during Christmas.

 

[WinClient5270]

Our area is actually being deactivated. We “lost” Amazon a few years ago, gained some back but they are telling me that offices that get deactivated will not get anything from Amazon, not even during Christmas.

Going through this at my office currently. We’re one of only 6 zip codes in the entire state that are being ‘deactivated’. No other offices in this area are completely losing it but us. It’ll be interesting to see in the coming months if this winds up being permanent or if we’ll wind up regaining at least some of the volume back. With how Amazon treats its employees and from what others have said, I’m betting on the latter…

 

[BluesClues]

Going through this at my office currently. We’re one of only 6 zip codes in the entire state that are being ‘deactivated’. No other offices in this area are completely losing it but us. It’ll be interesting to see in the coming months if this winds up being permanent or if we’ll wind up regaining at least some of the volume back. With how Amazon treats its employees and from what others have said, I’m betting on the latter…

You’ve got a point. I’d think they would at least like the PO to be their backup plan in worse case scenarios with their 3rd party delivery drivers.

 

[WinClient5270]

You’ve got a point. I’d think they would at least like the PO to be their backup plan in worse case scenarios with their 3rd party delivery drivers.

Yep, we’re their get out of jail free card. They can ‘deactivate’ and ‘reactivate’ zip codes at will. All it takes is for a bunch of people to get fired or quit, and they’ll come crawling back…
In my case, we have an auxiliary route to rebuild from if it hurts our routes too much, and our PM has agreed to do so if needed, so I’m not too worried about it. I’d be more concerned about the Amazon coming back full force after the adjustments are made, because we all know that’s how it’ll likely play out