{"id":482,"date":"2010-03-25T09:40:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T23:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=482"},"modified":"2010-03-25T09:40:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T23:40:45","slug":"how-companies-go-broke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2010\/03\/how-companies-go-broke\/","title":{"rendered":"How Companies Go Broke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, I ordered several t-shirts from the online store at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkgeek.com\/\">ThinkGeek<\/a>.  They have great stuff for the average nerd &#8211; like myself &#8211; and it&#8217;s all good quality.<\/p>\n<p>At checkout time, I selected UPS for delivery, as it was a little cheaper than the DHL option.  No big deal &#8211; only a few dollars difference, but hey, a few dollars is a few dollars.  Since the order, I&#8217;ve kept an intermittent eye on their shipment tracking page, just to see where my shirts were at.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Now, here&#8217;s my question.  The package arrives in Ascot Vale (Melbourne) at 10:12am yesterday morning.  By 1:00pm, it is listed as &#8220;IN TRANSIT FOR DELIVERY&#8221;.  Then all of a sudden, come 4:11pm, it&#8217;s been accepted at Mascot (Sydney) &#8211; which is about 900 kilometres from Ascot Vale!  Why?<\/p>\n<p>And of course, at 6:09am this morning, it has completed its round trip back to Ascot Vale &#8211; (and another 900 kilometres), before hitting the road at 6:35am for actual delivery at 9:44am.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the cost of my one single individual parcel travelling via air to Sydney and back is probably only a couple of dollars to UPS, but does this happen to every single parcel?  It only has to be a shipment of a few hundred packages every single day, and these &#8220;couple of dollars&#8221; for each parcel adds up!<\/p>\n<p>Surely it&#8217;s better for their bottom line to be a little better organised?  Just seems a waste of time, money, and effort to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, I ordered several t-shirts from the online store at ThinkGeek. They have great stuff for the average nerd &#8211; like myself &#8211; and it&#8217;s all good quality. At checkout time, I selected UPS for delivery, as it was a little cheaper than the DHL option. No big deal &#8211; only a few dollars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[565,577],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-ups","tag-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}