Today it seems like if your shipping drops off for a couple days it's usually lost. why pay for someplace to hold onto it when we can JIT it right onto a truck? The 5-day window is nice for the courier if they need it of course, holiday is madness in the mail business (and payments, retail, etc) from what I know, but if your throughput is significantly lower than your mail volume then you've got problems, so you need to be able to ship it through in 2-3 days on average anyway, and if you can do that. These are costs that are probably not justified for the return of "lol make customers more amicable to pay more for better shipping", the conversion there is ~0% for the most part. Even if it's sitting in a trailer somewhere, you still have to have a big lot to hold them. It may also be the shift to JIT logistics too - you have to have a big warehouse or something to hold them. I can't tell how much of that is vs me moving away from a rural home (might be more likely to attempt "batching" deliveries in rural areas due to distance) vs an actual change in behavior here. Definitely post-covid but tbh it's really been years since I've seen it. I don't see it all that much anymore though. I've seen both Fedex and UPS do it, but in some places it seemed like one or the other. Fedex said it was gonna be 5 business days? Then don't expect to see it in less than 5 business days. Back then I completely recall watching tracking for some items and they'd accept it and run it a couple hops and then. This definitely used to be a thing until like. So they're all still there, and Larry is not." They were like millions of his own precious children. Larry would do these big usability studies and demonstrate beyond any shred of doubt that nobody can understand that frigging website, but Bezos just couldn't let go of those pixels, all those millions of semantics-packed pixels on the landing page. He hired Larry Tesler, Apple's Chief Scientist and probably the very most famous and respected human-computer interaction expert in the entire world, and then ignored every goddamn thing Larry said for three years until Larry finally - wisely - left the company. He micro-manages every single pixel of Amazon's retail site. "Jeff Bezos is an infamous micro-manager. If you're not paying close attention you're likely to miss something. Instead it's consistently a textbook case of TMI. But all the more reason for Amazon to streamline it's UI and UX. It's also possible they use the same part number in some other product that doesn't require holes so this way is better for their logistics. I would have preferred pre-drilled holes since a TV is going to cover 90% of the top anyway, but it's not a huge problem. It's a veneered wood product and I guess they want you to pick the "best" side and you have to tap the holes yourself. I'm currently assembling a TV stand and so far it's been great except for the top shelf. The previous drawers were junk and got stuck or broke within a month. All of the holes were pre drilled/tapped correctly and they've vastly improved the way the mattress slats are secured.įor the drawers underneath, the joining method was much simpler than before and while I still wouldn't look forward to taking it apart if/when I move, I can at least see a viable path for disassembly and re-assembly at my future house. I did buy a different model this time around and it's been over 5 years since my last purchase, but the quality on this bed is much better. I purchased a bed previously with storage boxes underneath in the past and I was dreading the same experience again. I recently moved and needed some new furniture. Much cheaper and faster than doing a drawing, sending it out to 3-8 local shops to try to find one that is quiet enough jobwise to take on a tiny one-off project and waiting 4 weeks for it, at a high price. I do mostly prototyping and I use so much of their customizable items, like rotary shafts. So yeah, McMaster whenever possible and I'll gladly (have my employer) pay more for it. Then you have a lengthy phone or email back and forth to try and figure out what's in stock as a replacement. Then you get your quote, and some items are in stock, some others in stock "nearby" (next day delivery), others are backorder (1-X weeks). If you want prices, you have to call a salesperson, or send an email with an item list and wait a day or two to get a quote back. They have a paper catalog, without prices (if you're lucky you can get a PDF too). All local industrial suppliers are truly stuck in the 80s. I'm so glad we can order from mcmaster here in canada, even though shipping is two days and usually min 30 USD even for tiny orders. It seems most companies here are stuck in the 80s and dedicate next to zero effort to their web ordering process.
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