Ok so this is going to be long and I don't do TL:DR so either read this or shut the fuck up.
On Monday I got a typed flyer in my mailbox from my mailman that has been with USPS for 25 years. He explained that today was his last day of employment with the post office because of how Amazon is going to be handled.
A while back there was a bid put in to have Amazon prime shipments delivered on Sundays. Well that sounds great you say right? Always more to the story and that is what this is about.
Well when my postman started it was agreed he didn't work on Sundays which for him was great as he is religious....like super religious and such. Which to me is fine dude never pushed that on anyone or at least me. Dude is the Need Flanders of post office in PA.
The postmaster over him said he was going to be written up each time he failed to show on Sunday. Well he tried to explain his position and to me it is valid and been that way since I have known him at least.
Doesn't matter to them and for that he attempted to give his two weeks. Well his postmaster said then you will be here this Sunday or you are terminated......well obviously he won't be so today is his last day.
This is a growing problem of America and consumerism going forward people. Small ripples now will become big waves in the future I promise. We have already lost many family owned businesses here were I live and the hardware store will soon go.
Don't believe how places like Amazon are fucking the world? Go into a GameStop and look around. It doesn't have many games in it. Looks like a hottopic took a shit in there with all the garbage that isn't games litters the floor.
Maybe I am just being that old man with a cane and reading more into shit than I should, but I don't feel I really am with this.
My question for you is with you save that little bit of time to buy from Amazon and drive that knife deeper into the community you live in, or will you get out of your house and at the very least try to find it within your local area and perhaps keep that money working for you?
I know that it is impossible to boycott the USPS as it is a fixture of America.....I can limit my interactions with them and I assure you I will find the alternative way as often as I can, but Amazon?
Never again. Just never and I canceled my memebership to them and will not be renewing it.
You ever hear any of them say "I don't know" or do they say "Let me find that out for you"?
That is customer service as I was explain to e-werd. That guy you speak of is just part of the problem and it is a significant one mind you, but he isn't the only one to blame.
Chances are if he has an issue with something he will just get a replacement which for now will make him happy, but dude has no idea if it will happen again.
Let's take my recent experience with Vizio. I got a 65in led tv from Walmart on the 9th. Great tv mind you, but had a manufacturing defect. The screen behind the glass isn't properly secured within the bezel.
Makes a wavy effect appear on static or solid background images. Bugs the fuck outta me lol. Well Walmart said (still under manufacturing warranty) you had 5 days to return. Blah blah.
Ok so I called Vizio.....that was customer service. That lady was so helpful she explained how that happens and that they could fix it on sight, but she prefers a swap with a brand new tv.
She scheduled it for me and said they will have a team come out and do it for me so I don't have to do shit! That is customer service.
Walmart don't give a fuck it is get your shit and get the fuck out.