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.
I have an Amazon pet peeve, I want to be able to choose what company delivers my stuff. USPS and UPS are great, Fedex is fucking nightmare, Fedex has atrocious customer service. A couple months back I ordered a $1000 laptop (by far the most expensive laptop I ever bought but it was the power to run all the bulky programs I like well). It was supposed to be 2 business days (I would be home) but unexpectedly shifts to 4 (which is saturday so I'm okay with that), the next day the driver calls me at work to tell me he tried to deliver. I ask if he can redeliver tomorrow and he says no problem.
On Saturday the status of my package changes to Monday so I call Fedex, and the rep says "oh we don't deliver on weekends, on between 9-5" (meanwhile I'm staring at the Fedex site which has a graphic saying that they even deliver Sundays) so I ask if I can have it held at the Fedex store near my work (I need to be home to sign for the package but I work so I'm not going to be home on a weekday during 9-5).
The rep says she can't do that because I'm not the shipper and only the shipper can change the destination. So she makes me call the supplier and they reroute the package. Thoroughly annoyed with Fedex, about half an hour later the Fedex driver roles up with my package like he said he would, I give him props.