In India's congested cities, delivery apps are cashing in, with sales soaring from $100 million in 2020 to an estimated $6 billion in 2024. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/05/26/companies/india-cities-delivery-apps/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #india #apps #ecommerce #delivery #shopping

Canada Post should be the exclusive delivery service in Canada

https://chrisalemany.ca/2025/05/21/canada-post-should-be-the-exclusive-delivery-service-in-canada/

Amid a serious truck driver shortage, convenience store chain Seven-Eleven Japan began a trial delivery service using robots on public roads in a western Tokyo suburb on Monday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/19/japan/seven-eleven-delivery-robots/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #seveneleven #conveniencestores #delivery #robots

Canada Post should end daily door-to-door delivery, allow part-time work on weekends, report recommends

#mail #delivery #work #postoffice #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-post-small-businesses-1.7536827?cmp=rss

4-27-24 Sketch Daily: Surprise / Octopus

Police have arrested four individuals for allegedly transferring a driver account on Demaecan, a food delivery service website, to an Uzbek national who is not qualified to work in Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/16/japan/crime-legal/food-delivery-driver-account-transfer/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #demaecan #foreignworkers #delivery #japanesepolice #tokyo #mpd

I've been trying out doing double-duty delivery, Door Dash and Uber Eats, at the same time.

There are a number of problems.

1) In my small town, DD still rules, there just aren't the same number of UE. Long stretches of the night will go without a single UE order.

2) Juggling the two apps is possible, but you're left hoping that an order from DD is in the same direction as one from UE. They usually aren't.

3) Because of 2), you have to choose whether to pause or go offline, which (I think) impacts the algorithm and leads to fewer orders, or less valuable ones.

4) Customers really don't like (understandably) if they see you veering off route to another store (even when its an order on the same app!) so ratings are at even bigger risk if you don't make the timings.

5) UE seems to have far fewer tips, so overall, if it werent for the $15 "quests" of extra cash to complete an order the pay is not as good.

6) This is all more stressful.

Conclusion:

I think I'm just gonna stick to DD exclusively for now unless daily totals start going down or its a super slow night.

Johnny Express (2014) [5 min] by Kyungmin Woo | #Korea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSGZyRBpMBE

https://www.alojapan.com/1254576/japan-engine-starts-co-firing-ammonia-engine-ahead-of-october-delivery-2/ Japan Engine Starts Co-Firing Ammonia Engine Ahead of October Delivery #ammonia #CoFiring #delivery #engine #FullScale #JEngine #Japan #JapanNews #marine #news   Japan Engine Corporation reports key progress in the race among the major engine manufacturers to complete the certification and delivery of the first ammonia-fueled commercial shipping engine. The company reports it will be ready to ship the engine in October for installation in a g…

https://www.alojapan.com/1254497/japan-engine-starts-co-firing-ammonia-engine-ahead-of-october-delivery/ Japan Engine Starts Co-Firing Ammonia Engine Ahead of October Delivery #ammonia #CoFiring #delivery #engine #FullScale #JEngine #Japan #JapanNews #marine #news   Japan Engine Corporation reports key progress in the race among the major engine manufacturers to complete the certification and delivery of the first ammonia-fueled commercial shipping engine. The company reports it will be ready to ship the engine in October for installation in a g…

Dead dash. #grickledoodle #doordash #delivery #séance #horror #pizza #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

#Furniture #NewFurniture #FuritureDelivery #Delivery

#ICE director Todd Lyons: "We need to get better at treating this like a #business ,where this #mass #deportation operation is something like you would see and say, like #Amazon trying to get your Prime #delivery within 24 hours. [...] So trying to figure out how to do that with #human beings.”

#USA #Trump

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/10/world/politics/ice-deportation-amazon-prime/

Second Class Mail (1984) [4 min] by Alison Snowden | #UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iof_vDCXRjo

Delivery

The last time I bought something form guitar center’s website they gave me a delivery date, told me the package was out for delivery, and then didn’t deliver it. They did this two or three days in a row. When it finally arrived they had failed to pack the power cable and when I complained they asked why I needed it… it was a guitar amplifier… was I supposed to use it without power?

I had forgotten about all of that when, this weekend, I ordered a pedal from guitar center’s website. Today is the delivery day. It has been showing as out for delivery since 9:36am. The estimated delivery time says it should arrive between 11:30am and 2:30pm. It is now 2:47 and it has not been delivered yet.

Yeah, I should have known better. I’m never getting that (relatively) cheap little digital reverb pedal, am I. I’m an idiot. Just call me sucker.

ADDENDUM: I got an email notification saying the package was delivered. I guess all it took was me complaining about it on the internet. Heh, as if.

https://www.alojapan.com/1223697/hokkaido-trucking-industry-faces-challenges-from-overtime-cap/ Hokkaido trucking industry faces challenges from overtime cap #delivery #Freight #Hokkaido #HokkaidoTopics #jobs #LABORLAWS #Trucks #WorkStyleReform #北海道 Sapporo – A central government-mandated cap on overtime hours has come into effect for Japan’s trucking industry, leading to decreased revenue among Hokkaido transportation firms and concerns for the future on how prefectural goods, especially seafood and agricultural products, will reach co…

Crazy Day Coming

Last night Jen and I stayed at the hotel that is hosting her company’s function. I got up at 5:30, took a shower, and drove home. It’s a little wacky, but I am working from home on a day when we aren’t actually home. Does that make sense? No? So what, it’s how it is. Heh.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54379981788/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54380134715/in/datetaken/

Tomorrow I will work in the office, so I’ll be driving there from the hotel instead of from home. That’s going to be weird too. I was thinking that I would bring my camera with me and wander around the city after work tonight, but if I am going straight to work in the morning I will have my work laptop with me… so I think I will be going to the hotel after work, and it will be late enough that the sun will be down by the time I get there and put my stuff away. So maybe I won’t be wandering around the city after all. Maybe I’ll just stay in the room and watch Daredevil while I wait for Jen to come back from her post-work, work-events.

We’ll see. I did tell Jen that if I happen on a music store in my wandering and said music store had a Gibson guitar for sale for under $1,000, then I am totally buying it. I should see if I can make that promise come true. Heh heh.

Anyway, time to get ready for work. There is a contractor coming this afternoon as well as a delivery that I have to open the door for. All of that on top of having a crazy busy schedule. It’s going to be a weird one today. Big time.