It's always them lol
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I have a moron who works in my area, morning post. They, not even the company they work for, just them, have the shittiest track record for delivering parcels. They literally will not deliver unless it's small enough that they can damage my mailbox door, bending it open to put the parcel in. They refuse to deliver parcels, and yet the company still gives them parcels to deliver.
Every other company has a success rate of 95%+. Not this one. Thanks to a maximum of three delinquents in their employ. Last time I tallied up their success rate was 50%.
I had similar with Hermes/EVRI, they were so bad and just refused to do the most basic things. Visible doorbell? Nope! Gonna ignore it, pretend you aren't in and won't even deliver the parcel to a neighbour, just take it with them. They're making more work for themselves.
If they're leaving a door tag, it means a signature is required. There's three flavors of signature: you specifically, someone 21 or older at the same address, or anyone with a pulse standing near your door.
Making two trips to deliver a package means they made no money on that delivery.
Not always the case. I've had these assholes come up to the door to my building, leave the tag without trying the doorbell then running off before I could run down the stairs.
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You can just let the free market solve this problem for you. It doesn't happen often, but it's actually true here.
It's super fucking easy too: place the burden of delivery on the seller/shipper, and presto, suddenly paying a little more for non-shit delivery becomes worth it. Or they keep trying till they get it right.
Not when there's a hot new trend of charging extra at checkout for "shipping protection" from some shell of a company named Route, on top of paying for shipping. And checking it by default, too, so most folks probably never even notice.
"By declining package protection, $merchantname is not responsible for lost, damaged, or stolen items."
Of course they still are responsible, but some companies like this are making it clear they're not gonna deal with their own selected shippers when they fuck up
...and you're suggesting to implement that... how?
That would require making and enforcing laws.
right. which the free market is famously all about.
I mean, within set boundaries, it can work pretty well. Having it entirely free is demonstrably a bad idea for all but like 17 people.
indeed. but when using the term "free market", regulation and consumer protection is sort of the opposite of what people picture. i have no doubt it would change the dynamics since the economy tends to fill whatever space it's given, but you could not get away with calling it a free market solution.