Re:A rural post office was told to prioritize Amazon package...
by hyperman1 on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @05:23AM
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It can be done better than today. If I order 3 packages on bol.com,I tend to see 3 delivery vans on the same day,sometimes literally parked behind each other. Or they spread out to 3 consequent days. Or the neighbour gets a delivery van half an hour later. They're mostly from the same company (bpost)
I'd like to tell them: Pick a day next week, and deliver everything together at the same time. Make it a bit more expensive to let the customer choose, and market forces will balance things out.
Re:A rural post office was told to prioritize Amazon package...
by Symbiote on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @05:28AM
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It could done behind the scenes, although I don't know how much space a typical post office has for storing mail for an extra day or five.
They could hold off delivering to a group of addresses (a street or an apartment building) until they either have a priority letter, for which a premium has been charged, or a non-priority letter is reaching the deadline, which here is 5 days. At that point they deliver everything that's waiting.
In a magical world post offices would have some sort of mechanism like just texting people that a package might arrive on a certain date, and maybe you can hit a button to request earlier delivery. Unfortunately the existence of that button requires restraint from the general population to be of any utility (and charging for the button press is a bit gnarly).
Perhaps in rural populations, people would be more reasonable though (especially if downstream of this system you actually had deliveries happen _when they are predicted to_)