Fake news for a fake president. Sort of a double-negative thing.
Besides, even if the USPS charged more, how many of you would bet that Amazon wouldn't just simply pass the rate hike on to consumers? Any businessman worth half his salt would do that.
It may actually be a good point that the USPS should be charging Amazon more, but that common sense approach would have to apply to EVERY company and individual that ships a package via USPS.
Amazon is on track to provide its own delivery system. including the last mile.
The monopolistic ambiance of commerce regulators will allow it and USPS, UPS, and FedEx will hurt like hell, just as retail has, because of the "Amazon Effect."
We can only HOPE that Amazon does that and provides a better, faster, safer, cheaper alternative to all of the above. USPS shouldn't even exist AFAIC, UPS and FedEx and the rest need real competition and Amazon is as real as competition gets.
Fuck the USPS, what we need is a last mile solution. And how we need to get that is to [literally?] hold the telco execs' feet to the fire until they give us what we paid for. Seriously, all this snail mail is dumb. It should just be packages.
I've yet to see a country with a functional postal system. Pretty much all of them seem to deliver more junk than actual mail. That's pretty dysfunctional.
Fake News (Score:4, Interesting)
While they probably should, Trump feels this way because Jeff Bozo, who owns Amazon, also owns the NYT - or as Trump says "Fake News"...
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Fake news for a fake president. Sort of a double-negative thing.
Besides, even if the USPS charged more, how many of you would bet that Amazon wouldn't just simply pass the rate hike on to consumers? Any businessman worth half his salt would do that.
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It's worse than that.
It may actually be a good point that the USPS should be charging Amazon more, but that common sense approach would have to apply to EVERY company and individual that ships a package via USPS.
Amazon is on track to provide its own delivery system. including the last mile.
The monopolistic ambiance of commerce regulators will allow it and USPS, UPS, and FedEx will hurt like hell, just as retail has, because of the "Amazon Effect."
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We can only HOPE that Amazon does that and provides a better, faster, safer, cheaper alternative to all of the above. USPS shouldn't even exist AFAIC, UPS and FedEx and the rest need real competition and Amazon is as real as competition gets.
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Why don't you take your anarcho-capitalism and fuck off to some country where this is appreciated. Somalia maybe?
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Fuck the USPS, what we need is a last mile solution. And how we need to get that is to [literally?] hold the telco execs' feet to the fire until they give us what we paid for. Seriously, all this snail mail is dumb. It should just be packages.
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Americans have no appreciation for having a functional postal system.
Re: Fake News (Score:2)
I've yet to see a country with a functional postal system. Pretty much all of them seem to deliver more junk than actual mail. That's pretty dysfunctional.
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Americans have no appreciation for having a functional postal system.
It was awesome once. Now it's stupid. What year is it? We're still sending information back and forth on slips of paper?