Rant on shipping

[Dftodd]

According to Wikipedia, there's one in Nashua, N.H., but I've never received any shipments from there. The only warehouse in New England I've gotten anything from is Stoughton, Mass. Otherwise everything comes from 1000+ mi. away. :confused3:

I haven't been able to figure it out either, but that's what was explained when I did some contract work over there.

 

[Howling]

Amazon uses a series of facilities. The warehouses pull items and box up orders. Then will move through a series of sorting facilities that sort and load packages in to the totes that the delivery station will load in to vans for last mile delivery. Not sure what type of facility Nashua is.

Amazon is leasing/acquiring facilities at a rapid getting them operational at a rapid pace. My son is working maintenace at a pair of cross dock/sorting facilities (on same site) that are still in build out and have started operation.

 

[Peter 315]

Amazon uses a series of facilities. The warehouses pull items and box up orders. Then will move through a series of sorting facilities that sort and load packages in to the totes that the delivery station will load in to vans for last mile delivery. Not sure what type of facility Nashua is.

Amazon is leasing/acquiring facilities at a rapid getting them operational at a rapid pace. My son is working maintenace at a pair of cross dock/sorting facilities (on same site) that are still in build out and have started operation.

Nashua is a sorting facility....

 

[Pixguy]

Yes, the USPS is clearly overwhelmed.

 

[user.69169]

Strikes me a bit odd dat ebay can send me email widin 20 minutes of Smash de carrier jammin sumting in my mailbox out at de road and provide dang near minute by minute track of where package traveled via Pitney Bowes. Post Office Informed delivery on other hand can't get information to my email in same day.

Pretty sure Pitney Bowes ain't got nobody runnin along behind mail truck so presumption is both PB & de PO working from same scanned bar code.

Almost seems situation is PO got a Don't Care attitude. Probably something to do with Union employees too dumb to back little truck up more den 50 feet. Dey got de power to make world like der work ethic and dey gonna show you dey got it. Probably ought to consider it a miracle dey feel like deliverin as much as dey do.

Sure seems like PO did a better job back when dey walked routes in surplus Army uniforms and drove brown trucks.
Maybe dey spent too much on dat TourDeFrance bicycle guy few years back and catchin up now.

 

[user.69169]

Strikes me a bit odd dat ebay can send me email widin 20 minutes of Smash de carrier jammin sumting in my mailbox out at de road and provide dang near minute by minute track of where package traveled via Pitney Bowes. Post Office Informed delivery on other hand can't get information to my email in same day.

Pretty sure Pitney Bowes ain't got nobody runnin along behind mail truck so presumption is both PB & de PO working from same scanned bar code.

Almost seems situation is PO got a Don't Care attitude. Probably something to do with Union employees too dumb to back little truck up more den 50 feet. Dey got de power to make world like der work ethic and dey gonna show you dey got it. Probably ought to consider it a miracle dey feel like deliverin as much as dey do.

Sure seems like PO did a better job back when dey walked routes in surplus Army uniforms and drove brown trucks.
Maybe dey spent too much on dat TourDeFrance bicycle guy few years back and catchin up now.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^^
Double post, you must be stuttering.

Almost seems situation is PO got a Don't Care attitude.

This sums it up. A few years ago the postmaster general didn't get his way, so implemented measures to ensure that their service was even worse.

 

[goeduck]

It used to be internet purchases in WA were not sales taxed unless the business had a location in the state. You were supposed to track and report all purchases on your own from out of state sellers (few did). That all changed in 2018, we now pay sales tax on basically all internet purchases.

 

[ultrarunner]

Seems all have been hit by porch pirates this month...

Home next door... owner was out back and got notification of delivery... went to porch and nothing... I said a guy just left porch and sped off driving older gold Ford Explorer with no rear plate...

Most if not all pirates here have no visible plate... too bad no plate doesn't warrant a stop... but it doesn't 99% of time and budget set to redirect 50% of $290 million police budget.

Lots of media coverage about neighborhoods setting up cameras to turn over to law enforcement which is what my street did but police don't want video so only function is to time stamp.

Some have taken to posting on next door which has also caused problems of profiling...

I did not have any deliveries but have garage code for immediate neighbors and put packages inside...

One FedEx guy was watching me but I said I'm putting in garage and was OK...

 

[Dftodd]

It used to be internet purchases in WA were not sales taxed unless the business had a location in the state. You were supposed to track and report all purchases on your own from out of state sellers (few did). That all changed in 2018, we now pay sales tax on basically all internet purchases.

Thats to be expected. Here you pay personal property tax on anything with tires, if it's registered, and on mobile homes.

List includes, trailers, boats, atv's, lawn mowers, trailers, tractors, rv's, campers, mobile homes, auto's and trucks, farm equipment, and heavy equipment.

I dont know a single person that claims a lawn mower, atv, tractors, or farm equipment.

About the only ones that the state can enforce is anything registered and mobile homes since it's attached to your address.

They tried to do a tax on household items, and succeeded for a short time. A class action lawsuit shut that down.