If a website has the cheek to charge you for shipping, it should be next day delivery

Money-Saving-King

Azari wrote: »

That fact that you did clearly demonstrates that you are utterly clueless

Another typical Azari comment! Azari it must be so amazing to be you!

System

Azari wrote: »

And that allows them to sort, move around the country, and deliver 17kg packages for 37p how, exactly?



If they are offering free delivery, and they then abandon that policy and charge, then, ceteris paribus, they can reduce the price of their products.

Obviously they are not obliged to and there may well not be a one to one correlation between delivery costs and either customers or products. I don't know if this is what has been vexing you because you love to talk in generalities, accusing people of being naive, rather than putting forward a cogent argument.



Not really.

You best effort seems to be some nonsense about businesses being able to get 17kg parcels delivered for 37p a go.

I doubt anyone was foolish enough to believe that for a second.

That fact that you did clearly demonstrates that you are utterly clueless about the real world costs of running a courier service and, I would suspect, if you can believe that, you can have precious little idea about business in general.

It's actually 15kg. The 17kg was a mistake on my part.

The sorting is done by the retail company. They will sort all parcels themselves by van round and each van round will have its own bag. Therefore all the courier company has to do it collect these bags and pass them via their hub network to the right van round. It's not actually a great deal of work for the courier company to do.

You seem to have trouble understanding economies of scale.

System

Money-Saving-King wrote: »

Another typical Azari comment! Azari it must be so amazing to be you!

It's getting a bit personal the debate as always but I like him. He makes me laugh.

Money-Saving-King

goater78 wrote: »

It's getting a bit personal the debate as always but I like him. He makes me laugh.

I've always wondered though is Azari a he or she?

System

Money-Saving-King wrote: »

I've always wondered though is Azari a he or she?

I've always assumed a he but thinking about it I don't think they've ever said. I think they've said they are quite old (late 50's) but that may have been someone else. I get mixed up with the different posters.

Nilrem

goater78 wrote: »

It's actually 15kg. The 17kg was a mistake on my part.

The sorting is done by the retail company. They will sort all parcels themselves by van round and each van round will have its own bag. Therefore all the courier company has to do it collect these bags and pass them via their hub network to the right van round. It's not actually a great deal of work for the courier company to do.

You seem to have trouble understanding economies of scale.

That's not how I've ever seen it work...

For one thing the retailers don't have a clue about what van it will go on in most cases, and in many cases the courier might have multiple vans doing the same area with their exact routes changing depending on what needs to be delivered that day (or even overlapping if they do multiple delivery slots)...

Every mail order company I've seen tends to put everything on the same van, loose and it's sorted (usually largely automatically) by the delivery company once it reaches on of their central hubs.

System

Nilrem wrote: »

That's not how I've ever seen it work...

For one thing the retailers don't have a clue about what van it will go on in most cases, and in many cases the courier might have multiple vans doing the same area with their exact routes changing depending on what needs to be delivered that day (or even overlapping if they do multiple delivery slots)...

Every mail order company I've seen tends to put everything on the same van, loose and it's sorted (usually largely automatically) by the delivery company once it reaches on of their central hubs.

I don't know where you have seen it so I can only comment on the two big companies I have worked for. What happens with them is every night they receive a routing file from the courier company which has the sort level routing details for every postcode. This points it to the van round for that postcode (for that day).

The retailers systems match the postcode code of the order with this file and sort and bag accordingly.

Again it's just at the two quite big companies I have worked for so I am unsure if this standard is followed by all companies in the retail industry.