FedEx Messed Up Big Time... 

FedEx, DHL, and others seem to be in the stone age. I think if you want to get an AirTag to North Korea you're gonna want to send First Class Mail through USPS. We actually have real sorting machines unlike some others I could mention...

In the middle on corporate restructuring merging Fedex Ground network (US and canada only) with the Fedex Express network eg 1 truck per address instead of 2

Coming from an Express worker. Y’all don’t know the half of it

How can a barcode come out bad from a printer to specifically only redirect to wrong country

I work at a FedEx office. The number of times packages get returned to our location because someone uncovers a covered barcode is *hilarious*

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@@Ok-lu8gxI like your username

I think the shipping industry is more like trillions of dollars, not billions. Maersk revenues are ~$30b/yr and that's only one company.

And we all here for it.

They sent a hit man to silence him but he went to the wrong address.

Indeed!

@@MegaLag I have been following you from the start of this channel will you ever get your AirTag back?

im still stuck in 1 island in my entire life, the furthest i go was like 2 km offshore

uhmm akshually🤓 "An average person walks approx. 104,426 km (64,887 mi) in their life"

@@mr.2minutes161 lmao i've travelled by plane over 250,000 miles and im 15

I had further issues getting a parcel while in lived in Finland from abroad. It took 11 weeks to get a parcel the size of my hand, and at one point was going to cost me €185. After that I never got anyone to post me anything too much hassle 🤣

Sounds like a business opportunity to me.

or when its home delivery and they want to put it in my postbox but 'apparently' the postbox is full so they take it to a delivery point 20 km away xD

Interesting! Out of all the Nordic countries my companies delivered to (and we did ship thousands of parcels), I've found Finland to be the least problem-prone. Once the parcel was with Posti, it was quick, efficient and customers picked up their deliveries without delay or reporting errors. PostNord in Denmark and especially Sweden had generated far more complaints regarding their choice of pick-up points, which we received and had to resolve with them as the customers were dealing with us. That said, PostNord overall have been providing an exceptional service standard and been very helpful and prompt in resolving any issues. I cannot say that of DHL Germany, who seem to be constantly baffled by the parcels they receive. Once in a winter peak (not the Christmas one but one resulting more a peculiar alignment of bank holidays across origin and destination countries) they left out entire containerloads of parcels in the snow when they couldn't process them on the same day in Hamburg, and later seemed to forget about those, discovering them after a week. We only learned of that through an insider. They are also absolutely unable to sort out any domestic, pardon the pun, sorting issues. If the parcel ends up hitting the snag, they tend to send it back all the way rather than redirect to the proper DC or try to resolve the issue on location.

Finland is the country where you have to go to a kiosk to receive packages? This system is so absurd. The whole point of mail is to be door-to-door. People can have disabilities, making this trip very difficult.

What is networking, if not shipping tiny parcels of light?

data packets don't come with tags saying where they've been, but parcels do, so they should make a rule like if a parcel goes back to the same location 3 times, it gets pulled out and a human has to review it.

@@thewhitefalcon8539 Don't data packets have source and destinations fields in both layer 2 and layer 3? That does tell a network host where the packet was one hop ago, so maybe you mean that data packets don't maintain a lengthy history of where they've been, which would indeed be true.

@@Slavolko From a layer 2 perspective it's a whole new packet every time it goes through a router (and it came from that router). From a layer 3 perspective that only tells you the original source and the final destination.

@@thewhitefalcon8539 I forgot that the layer 3 source remains the same and that layer 2 doesn't directly know the layer 3 destination address. Besides that, I get the idea that there's no tracking history for data packets.

Whole postal industry is quiet quitting lol

@@thekrustychub5038 FACTS!

My father worked for the USPS for a short time back in the late 60s. He said that even then he thought it was on the way down, as they were doing stuff by hand which a machine could've done. Things haven't gotten much better, I'm told.

NK also has bought a couple of subway carts from Germany. Was really surprised when I saw a documentary about NK and it just looked too familiar.

My bet is they (NK logistics) are taking advantage of free resources provided by DHL. Why bother getting an unmarked van or get new clothes for your employees when you can just ask your business partner to provide them. I don't think NK people know what DHL is and if they did, it's not like it's some evil propaganda. From DHL's perspective this costs them pennies and they get their brand shown around. They could remove the branding, but that would be a pain and it's clearly unnecessary. NK logistics clearly doesn't care and that's fine.

I could imagine. Thanks for sharing your insights!

Thanks for the kind words, Cats. Always happy to hear that people are enjoying the content :)

Or my delay in making videos 🤣

@@MegaLag lol

They work like a charm! Glad my content has been helpful :)

Haha thanks bro! They should definitely hire me as a consultant 🤣

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can you please fly me to india for free

@@MegaLag Try sending Royal Mail another email asking them to contact China Post directly

Whistleblowers get sent to prison, not offered a job. Unfortunately.

Thanks man! More content coming!

Exactly, well stated.

And the package was from thailand where they still ship packages with handwritten labels...

For now

@@BrassPlayr it updates every video

@@OKayD3N Ah I see

@@OKayD3N I noticed that this video, I think it’s a cool Easter egg to be able to retrospectively see the growth of the channel. I know Socialblade exists but this is just cool without having to go through that extra effort.

ha ha

they already do team up were running ups boxes at my fedex location constantly

Nice joke but if you want to be realistic The US Department of justice will block it on anti trust ground like the EU did to UPS when they tried to buy TNT Express and fedex was allowed to

Interesting! Thanks for sharing :)

So... send an air tag?

Really? I get an error for North Korea on PostNL

Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video! You’re right, it’s for archival, but they also collect historic stamps and do other stuff too. It feels like a waste of money in my opinion. Letter volumes have been declining since 2000. Feels like a stupid tradition. They need major investment / revamping in their tooling used by national postal operators around the world. I looked into some of their systems, and they look like they haven’t been touched since the early 2000’s.That's where they should invest their money.

@@MegaLag sounds like this is where the stamp collector AI horror story came from, if not it does show how easy it is to end up in that scenario

@@RomitHeerani "Something something corporations are just a lesser form of AGI."

Imagine it eventually does 😂

Glad you enjoyed!

Purple promise

Well there is a reason... to save money

Right?

Thanks mate, glad you’re enjoying the content

Thanks Lakwat :)

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Thanks!

Unions definitely hold back the industry to a degree. It's also rather stupid given the insane churn of sorting workers. People hate the job.

hmm, unions are definitely not a factor in this case... express carriers are free to vary the amount of manpower they use, and how they use them... As you say, it is possible to implement strict rules and procedures to completely eliminate misrouting.... however, it would be unacceptably expensive for customers, and customers would also be turned off by the lack of flexibility... A contributing factor is legacy computer systems, that are processing billions of records per day, that need to be integrated and upgraded, which is a significant investment and even more so a daunting worldwide management challenge...

@@nickyl8980 ikr bruh my mom's crazy 💀

🤣 thanks!

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Sure! Google Studio plus some after effects

@@MegaLag Thanks!