I wonder what are the % of damage from Online Shopping. Online Retailing is basically moving the cost of High Rentals to shipping / delivery.
When a Bike Company Put a TV on Its Box, Shipping Damages Went Down (2017)
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#182This reminds me of a company "Atheist Shoes". That had to put just "Shoes" on their boxes because it greatly reduced delivery problems in US (no effect in europe).
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#183I've always been curious about the shipping process. I have met or know 7 people who work/worked at the shipping hub in my city. I always ask them how the packages are handled. Every one of them said that they (and all of their coworkers) handle all packages on a scale ranging from rough to purposefully damaging. One guy told me how he targets boxes marked Fragile for extra abuse when he's exhausted/angry/having a ba…
Just the other day a videotaped balcony delivery by a german Hermes driver went viral (he climbs the van throwing it from the street onto the 2nd floor balcony, successful on 3rd attempt). This has sparked the same discussions and Hermes now faces some really bad PR and is searching for the culprit.
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
> One guy gleefully told me how he targets boxes marked Fragile for extra abuse! A close friend who owns a UPS franchise warned me of this behavior and advised against placing any indication of fragility on the box. If I recall the threshold correctly, $1,000+ declared-value packages are identified and set aside in a separate group within the store. When a driver comes by to pick up daily packages, the store clerk al…
Just don't try this trick if sending things overseas. The recipient won't appreciate the customs bill (20% in the UK).
You can put any value on the parcel and it won't matter in the slightest. You can declare the value to be $1M and it has no bearing on the final customs charge paid. Chinese shops have been sending everything declared as "gift" with $1 value and customs officials don't give a shit - the parcel is opened and the official makes an assessment on the worth of the item - if it roughly matches what the shipping document says, that's what they send you an invoice for. If it doesn't, they ask for supporting documentation(receipts of what you paid for the item) and then calculate customs charge off that.
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#185I've always been curious about the shipping process. I have met or know 7 people who work/worked at the shipping hub in my city. I always ask them how the packages are handled. Every one of them said that they (and all of their coworkers) handle all packages on a scale ranging from rough to purposefully damaging. One guy told me how he targets boxes marked Fragile for extra abuse when he's exhausted/angry/having a ba…
Just the other day a videotaped balcony delivery by a german Hermes driver went viral (he climbs the van throwing it from the street onto the 2nd floor balcony, successful on 3rd attempt). This has sparked the same discussions and Hermes now faces some really bad PR and is searching for the culprit. https://youtu.be/r4adBQf7R0Q
If this had been filmed in Britain, I guarantee you that the person filming it would have given a sarcastic cheer when the parcel finally landed on the balcony. We're a strange little island.
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://247wallst.com/aerospace-defense/2014/06/03/why-a-boe... For some perspective a Boeing 747 costs $357,000,000 they have a seating capacity of 416. 416 x $200,000 is only $83,200,000 so...honestly...I could see it.
It's hard to say how much anything actually costs in aviation because no one pays list price and are outfitted per the buyers' specs (why airlines all have their own in cabin look). Discounts are usually north of 50% off "list". Economy style seats don't have a lot going on and definitely don't cost the same as a Lambo. You can even buy your own if you want to be uncomfortable in your own home: http://usedairlineseat…
> Economy style seats don't have a lot going on
Actually they do. The drive to make thinner and lighter seats means lots of exotic materials can go into them. If the seats include in-flight entertainment devices, that'll increase the cost too. Plus the seats still have to be certified to the same stringent safety standards as the first-class seats.
Of course the claim was that a row of economy seats costs about what one first-class seat does. I think that's believable.
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#187Re: When a Bike Company Put a TV on Its Box, Shipping Damages Went Down (2017)
#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn't include engines or avionics?
Engines are typically bought from the engine manufacturer. The bigger ones cost tens of millions of dollars each.
I was referring to the quoted price and asking whether that price point includes engines and/or avionics.
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#189I've often wondered about what you would discover if you were to send accelerometers through various channels, over various distances, and inside of various packages. A database of carrier/packaging/haul distance/acceleration history tuples would be a valuable B2B product for many manufacturers.
There are rumours that B&O did this with one of the boxes for their TVs. Supposedly it spiked when the box missing a slide in the Copenhagen sorting facility a feel 4 meter, hitting a concrete floor.
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#190In the early days of Apple when they first started shipping computers to Japan they were getting transported in refrigerated trucks. The transport company saw the logo and just assumed it was fruit.
I’ve lost the source for this, I believe it was in the book “Apple Confidential 2.0”