It’s great thing to keep in mind but you make it sound like everything else in whole supply chain proces is perfect and this is the only thing that can go wrong.
All supply chain operations have many levels of risk attached to it and you always need to manage it.
Main risk you should make sure you don’t have to is to depend on shipment arriving on time. Plane crashing, fire in a delivery center, last mile truck crashing, heavy snow blocking roads, etc, etc. And that’s just shipping - there’s also risk with insurance company getting cofnused with you prescriptions, credit card getting denied, pharma company having production issues, etc, etc.
You have risks also with your local pharmacy, even if you aren’t disabled - again roads maybe closed, they may burn down, staff can catch some serious infection that will force closure, etc, etc
If you need critical meds, you need to make sure you always have enough of a buffer, as there’s many things that can always go wrong
Items, not meds. See my other comments here. You clearly have no idea how close to the edge, financially and in many other ways, society pushes the disabled, nor how frequently. Society is not built for us, and genuine consideration - as the discussion here shows - is extremely scant.
I am very well aware that my health and safety are commonly at risk; therefore I don't find the suggestion that a firm might actually plan around an accident to be bizzare or antisocial.
Oh, trust me, I know how close to financial edge medical issues can get you.
But, there's tons of things that can go wrong with any company operations, and for some they'll have plan b to meet contract, for others they refunds, for others they have insurance, and for some of them - it's just an inherent risk of running a business, that they have to roll with.
It's unreasonable to expect any company to operate risk free, with 100% guarantee of fulfilling contract every single time - there's not a single company on earth that can do that. And as a customer, one needs to be aware of that.
But what do you want Amazon to do? Send out two (or more) packages for every order on distinct routes just in case one gets delayed?
I understand that you are advocating for a minority group, and that's noble. But the expectation that it's not okay for Amazon to miss a delivery due to a plane crash is irrational. It has nothing to do with "ableism".
All supply chain operations have many levels of risk attached to it and you always need to manage it. Main risk you should make sure you don’t have to is to depend on shipment arriving on time. Plane crashing, fire in a delivery center, last mile truck crashing, heavy snow blocking roads, etc, etc. And that’s just shipping - there’s also risk with insurance company getting cofnused with you prescriptions, credit card getting denied, pharma company having production issues, etc, etc. You have risks also with your local pharmacy, even if you aren’t disabled - again roads maybe closed, they may burn down, staff can catch some serious infection that will force closure, etc, etc
If you need critical meds, you need to make sure you always have enough of a buffer, as there’s many things that can always go wrong
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