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Yeah, I ordered a power rack from Rogue last summer, and it got here a few months ago. We live a ways down a pretty narrow private road and despite talking to
by rjbwork 6y ago
Yeah, I ordered a power rack from Rogue last summer, and it got here a few months ago. We live a ways down a pretty narrow private road and despite talking to the UPS freight manager a couple of times, they kept sending full sized 18 wheelers which would have a hell of a time coming down the road and turning around, not to mention probably damaging the road. After 3 times of them sending a full sized truck over the course of 2 weeks I just rented a UHaul and drove across the damn metro to get it.
B2C freight is a bit of a shit show.
- ghaff 6y agoI forget exactly what it was because it was ages ago but it was some furniture that wasn't too big or heavy but was apparently (at least at the time) too big or at too expensive to ship by normal delivery. I live at the end of a 500 foot dirt driveway and some big truck pulls up at the end. I'm not sure if they could have got down my driveway and actually gotten back out but they sure didn't want to. Ended up unpacking at the side of the road and I got it down my driveway somehow.
- hef19898 6y agoThere are three companies specialized at that kind of stuff in Germany (they also serve other EU countries): a DHL brancha service from Rhenus and Hermes (Otto's logistics arm, Otto is one of the oldest mail order companies in Germany and transitioned rather well to the "internet"). The latter also contracted to Amazon, but is working exclusively in-house for quite a while now. Quite an interesting business, somewhere between standard parcel and LTL.