Things damaged during shipping.

[chrisrosenb]

I have always wondered how thing get damaged during shipping.

Thursday I ordered some items from Amazon.com. Since we belong to their Amazon Prime club,  we get free 2 day on everything we order, so I never look at tracking.
Since it is raining this morning, I decided to look at the tracking of the order & was surprised at the route it took.
The order was shipped from a  warehouse in Whitestown, IN north of Indy & shipped by Fed Ex for delivery today. The warehouse is about 100 miles from my home.
Below is the tracking of the package. It has taken quite a journey to be delivered 100 miles from where it started. It still has another transfer to be made before it is delivered today.
I can now better understand how things get damaged during shipping. I do not believe it should happen. I just understand why it dose.

August 21, 2010   08:05:00 AM   Richmond IN US   Arrival Scan
August 21, 2010 06:34:00 AM Vandalia OH US Arrival Scan
August 21, 2010 04:30:00 AM Memphis TN US Departure Scan
August 20, 2010 10:40:00 AM Memphis TN US Arrival Scan
August 20, 2010 02:18:00 AM Indianapolis IN US Departure Scan
August 19, 2010 08:53:00 PM Indianapolis IN US Arrival Scan
August 19, 2010 08:20:00 PM Whitestown IN US Departure Scan
August 19, 2010 07:30:00 PM Indianapolis IN US Shipment received by carrier
August 19, 2010 09:08:56 PM --- Shipment has left seller facility and is in transit

 

[jmbfestool]

We have Cameras all round the house.  Well one of them is zoomed in and gets oncoming cars and peoples face coming to are house and another is at a distance.  Its a narrow private road so trucks often reverse all the way down because its difficult to turn around so when they open the shutters we can see straight in with both cameras.    

Well I ordered a 150 litre compressor months ago and when I got home it was on our drive delivered because no one was in.  It was on a pallet with like a H frame around it I was like a fork lift must of dropped it their and thought best not of damaged any of the cars.

So I went and looked at the camera history and watched it.      It was a really FAT guy lol He opened the shutter and he jumped on the lift and it went up he walked to this large box on a pallet.  I then realised it was my package and I couldnt believe it it had fallen over!!!! He just picked it up and put it back.  

I watched him and their was many other packages infront of the pallet he just simply picked them up and threw them over the other side of my package.  Large packages he just kicked out of the way.

I couldnt believe one man moved my package but he did dragged it and dragged it and stopped for a bit and dragged somemore till he got it to my house lol Funny to watch hims struggle so much.

I can see why things get damage with delivery s because they dont organize the van properly and strap things in place.

I watched him leave and I could see their was a pyramid of boxes which you and me know would fall off round the first corner but he just shut the shutters and drove off.

I checked my compressor ALL over every little bit! IT was fine luckily!

JMB

 

[Rob-GB]

I once did some work for a police officer who was working "plain clothes" investigating missing/stolen/damaged deliveries to a shopping centre in Buckinghamshire, he witnessed large screen tv's being dropped off the back of the truck onto the road because the driver could not be bothered to use the pallet truck and hydraulic tail lift!
He would not disclose the shop or transport company, but said it was fairly pandemic among delivery companies and shops being delivered to.

As I have said before, I do not believe people leave school with the ambition of being a 'parcel delivery operative' , the rare few that find it appealing end up running their own company and employing more of those who have no ambition. Viscious circle continues!

Me!... Bitter? .....No! Just twisted  ;D With few illusions.
Rob.

 

[Brice Burrell]

Chris, years ago Fed Ex that used to ship every package to its one and only central distribution center in Atlanta Memphis.  So if your package was only going across town it went to Atlanta Memphis first.  Not inefficient if you lived in Atlanta Memphis. [big grin]

 

[chrisrosenb]

I guess they have studied this are doing what works best, but it seems that there is a lot of things shipped a lot of unnecessary miles.
I have thought about this for years. My daughter went to college in southern Indiana. The campus overlooked the Ohio River.
It amazed me how many times we would see barges of coal heading east passing barges of coal heading west.

 

[Alaska Ranger]

Chris, reading your post reminds me of every time I drive down to the lesser-48 ------

---- and see all those swarms of cars on the road, going North AND South, or East AND West, all at the same time.

The poor Alaskan mind boggles...... [wink]