Re:A rural post office was told to prioritize Amazon package...
by rtpg on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @05:32AM
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I guess it depends on the place, in Tokyo at least there's a dedicated pickup counter at the post office for stuff. Other delivery services it's a bit more chaotic (the sorting centers being basically glorified garages with stuff stacked all over the place).
There's a sort of comforting chaos to deliveries in the downtown area. There are loads of small centers, deliveries happen on foot for the major delivery companies in many cases (people just pushing around carts). And the missed delivery slips just have the cell phone number of the delivery person that you can call and be like "yeah whenever's good for you, I'm home again". I imagine all the fancy logistics happens right up to the delivery centers, and then it's basically YOLO mode.
I have lived in a couple of places (in Europe) where I often had to go to the sorting center to retrieve parcels, due to some customs-related issue or whatever. Staff generally weren’t happy to see me there. The sorting centers didn’t employ dedicated customer-facing staff, because there just aren’t enough customers coming in. And that means that I was either distracting someone from the tasks they are usually assigned, or I was at least shattering the peaceful environment that they normally work in.