Prologis – 'Water is building behind the dam'
…when will it break?
Depending on where you stand, the start of the holiday shopping season has been a success or a harbinger of disaster.
The parcel carriers have avoided a meltdown coming through Black Friday and Cyber Monday, continuing their run of recent weeks, since Amazon called an early start to the 2020 peak season by placing its Prime Day mega-shopping event in mid-October.
According to ShipMatrix, UPS scored an on-time delivery rate of 96.9% in the third week of November – the most recent ...
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Truth
December 10, 2020 at 5:57 amI have to disagree if you do a simple search about the usps performance currently you will find out that they are in a potential meltdown currently, massive backups at multiple hubs dejoy has taken dejoy out of christmas time.