Talked to clerk at local P.O. telling me local Amazon Delivery Services have stopped operating. [View all]
He told me that the Post Office parcel volume just took a multi-fold jump because the Amazon Delivery people (the tall vans) in town have stopped working due to high gas prices and unrealistic workloads. The Amazon delivery folks have to buy particular vans mandated by Amazon and have to reach Amazon delivery quotas that they can't handle.
In addition, he said Fedex is no longer handling Amazon packages and UPS is flooding the Post Office with "last mile" deliveries to cut down on their fuel costs.
And now that the Post Office have cut staff so much in the last few years, they are having trouble handling the volume, as well as getting hammered by gas prices.
So, if you're wondering why the Amazon vans and UPS deliveries are disappearing and your mail is running late(r), this might help explain the problem.
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