I don’t see how the delivery companies are keeping up. Parcel volume doubled in four years and I expect it has been going at that rate for a decade or more. I’m not at all surprised that they have problems. This article says that carriers shipped 2,760 parcels per second in 2018 worldwide.
https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/parcels-per-capita-revenue-e-commerce/564680/ wunder K6WRU Walter Underwood CM87wj http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Dec 25, 2019, at 2:19 PM, Nr4c <n...@widomaker.com> wrote: > > Is this “white truck” vs “brown truck” match ever going to end? There many > horror stories abound on both sides. But none really “prove” anything. Both > have their ups and downs. > > It’s Christmas, give it a break. > > Sent from my iPhone > ...nr4c. bill > > >> On Dec 25, 2019, at 2:03 PM, Tox <scott.sm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Ha! >> >> I have vivid memories of a $100k rackmount computer UPS dropped (on a >> pallet) from high enough the computer ended up 2" shorter and had to be >> scrapped by the vendor. >> >>> On Wed, Dec 25, 2019, 10:35 AM richard gilley <richgilley...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> When my Concept 2 rower was dropped off damaged; I was told by UPS that if >>> a heavy item is not shipped Freight it will be damaged. The why is, >>> regular shipping is handled by hand thus gets damaged, freight is by pallet >>> and fork lift. >>> AD1G >>> >>>>> On Dec 25, 2019, at 11:58, Mike VE3YF <m...@ve3yf.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Joe: >>>> >>>> I think all the courier services have gone downhill. They have us where >>> they want and not much we can really do. >>>> >>>> Merry Christmas Joe. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> *73 De Mike* >>>> *VE3YF >>>> >>>> _/http://www.ve3yf.com/_* >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________________________ >>>> Elecraft mailing list >>>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >>>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>>> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >>>> >>>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>>> Message delivered to richgilley...@gmail.com >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> Elecraft mailing list >>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >>> >>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>> Message delivered to scott.sm...@gmail.com >>> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to n...@widomaker.com > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to wun...@wunderwood.org ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
