Interesting logistics problem, I wonder how good Amazon is about re-routing deliveries from other warehouses if a local one goes down? This is bad time of the year to be losing a distribution center.
To answer your question though, unless the item someone ordered is unique and only stored in that warehouse, they will probably just mark the warehouse as down and the system will simply route around it and increase delivery estimates for the people who were served by that warehouse. They will probably redeploy the surviving trucks to nearby warehouses to handle the load.
Asking seriously. I want those complete strangers to not be in situations where they could die, and I want no one to die the same way in the future because someone did an engineering and made it safer. But they are people I don't/didn't know. Anything I could think of to say would feel as useless as "thoughts and prayers."
I don't know why I need to provide a token "thoughts and prayers" just because my question is related to some tragedy. Everything has become so absolutely performative these days.
Yes, I am sorry this happened to some people. But I guess I'm an asshole because I didn't write some meaningless consolatory words in a comment on a tech forum before having the audacity to ask a legitimate logistics question.
Thanks for the answer, but please skip the condescension next time.
You could instead not post.
> But I guess I'm an asshole because I didn't write some meaningless consolatory words in a comment on a tech forum before having the audacity to ask a legitimate logistics question.
Timing is everything. There is a time to discuss those sort of things; this is not it.
As far as I can tell my question is in line with the guidelines of the site and the submission itself doesn't provide any clarity about what the discourse of this thread is supposed to be about. It is quite open-ended.
> Timing is everything. There is a time to discuss those sort of things; this is not it.
Since you seem to know what time that will be, when is it?
To show you care about the humans that died. It's not performative. It's called being part of a society. Society prefers members who show compassion to others, and it's an important part of being a social creature.
Feel free to express how upset you are, but please don't demand that we somehow express our feelings in a way that you deem sufficient.
Imagine everyone at Amazon directly involved in the operational disaster recovering effort having to preface everything they say and write with “thoughts and prays” before getting on with fixing issues.
We’re well aware people have died, and many more will have their lives impacted.
I’m an infrastructure and steel construction guy, I’m here to get shit done. If you need consoling you’ll find me quite abrasive as you’re probably in my way.
Friends, family, mental healthcare professionals, and religious practitioners are probably better at that than I.