(06-09-2021, 07:36 PM)ChunksterK Wrote: The situation at the Keauu Post Office far predates DeJoy and the Amazon changes. The workers there have demonstrated attitudes ranging from indifference (about the best we experienced) to incompetence to outright hostility going back well beyond a decade. Frau Chunkster and I got a box in Hilo and drive twice as far just to avoid them.
Agree with this statement. I pay almost $140/year (and that goes up EVERY year, was under $80 when I started several years ago) for a box in Hilo rather than deal with the drama of a free box in Keaau. Though, I am inclined to believe that a lot of the difficulties at that location are due to the logistics of dealing with a facility that is completely inadequate for their mission. I lost any compassion for the employees there after being on the receiving end of their very vocal bad attitudes. Granted, that was several years ago, so things may have changed. The Hilo station has it's share of fumbles, but most of the employees have excellent attitudes towards the "customers".
Amazon didn't dump FedEx so much as FedEx fired Amazon as a customer. FedEx is an airline and the company operates as such. When Amazon started their own airline FedEx was done with them. Their attitude was, let the ground transportation companies deal with the "last mile" delivery. The USPS is FedEx's largest customer. A lot of those Amazon packages are still flying on FedEx jets as USPS packages. FedEx gets to move the freight as the airline they are at a profit, and let somebody else grind out the nearly-zero profit of ground delivery. It was a brilliant move, actually.