Where I work relies on a shipping container of product to be delivered every few weeks. These deliveries are typically “just in time” restocking because we don’t have the warehouse space to keep months and months of inventory. Yesterday at work, I learned from my boss that we can’t schedule a container for delivery in the month of may at all.
We have one container that just got in the country, that would usually be delivered 1-2 weeks after it clears customs. And 2 more waiting for pickup in china to be put on a boat. We can’t get anyone to schedule delivery in may at all. We can’t get anyone to schedule a pick up of the other two containers.
And they won’t even talk about June.
It’s as if the shipping companies are shutting down may first, and won’t schedule after it. And they won’t tell us why.
Is it customs or shipping issue? As I understood there are a lot of ships waiting to be unloaded in usa, maybe something to do with that?
It’s shipping. The container just cleared customs yesterday and we would normally just call and start to finalize the delivery date. But when we did they said nope. To be specific they said “We cannot scheduled delivery for the month of may.”
They didn’t say the usual “we can not guarantee delivery for the month of may, but we will begin the shipping process.”
Usually, they tell us it’ll be a few weeks, set a date for delivery, and give us updated tracking info. That has been the case for years. And rona hasn’t actually had too much of an impact so far. It’s made deliveries late, it’s made shipping slower. But they will still take the delivery.
But not this time. This time they said no. And they wont even talk about our other two containers in China.
