Originally Posted by
PurpleToolBox
Or one could say FedEx and UPS were used as scapegoats for an internet company who sold too many products and flooded their contracted shipping volumes while promising the buyers their presents would arrive before Christmas.
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As always there are two versions and in this case three versions of the "truth". Allegedly, Amazon made the "we'll deliver by Christmas" promise to their customers after being promised by managements of both cargo companies that "if they (brown/purple) can deliver by Christians so can we". Both cargo companies were already behind and knew it would be very hard, if not impossible, to fulfill this "deliver by Christmas" promise. I'd imagine all 3 companies exaggerated their abilities...