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What are you talking about?
Some areas (including most newly built neighborhoods) have neighborhood mailboxes.
Posted on 07/13/2017 6:44:08 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
A Citigroup analysis finds each box gets a $1.46 subsidy. It’s like a gift card from Uncle Sam.
In my neighborhood, I frequently walk past “shop local” signs in the windows of struggling stores. Yet I don’t feel guilty ordering most of my family’s household goods on Amazon. In a world of fair competition, there will be winners and losers.
But when a mail truck pulls up filled to the top with Amazon boxes for my neighbors and me, I do feel some guilt. Like many close observers of the shipping business, I know a secret about the federal government’s relationship with Amazon: The U.S. Postal Service delivers the company’s boxes well below its own costs. Like an accelerant added to a fire, this subsidy is speeding up the collapse of traditional retailers in the U.S. and providing an unfair advantage for Amazon.
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I must say that the postal system is getting better. I ordered something on Monday from NJ and got it in Illinois on Wednesday. Just plain old 3 day priority mail.
Except that it is on you and the rest of us taxpayers for stupid government institutions...
The U.S. Postal Service delivers the company’s boxes well below its own costs
No amount of volume makes up for each package shipping at a loss. The loss only gets greater. Government subsidies only distort markets. In a bad way.
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What are you talking about?
Some areas (including most newly built neighborhoods) have neighborhood mailboxes.
People are such sheep ….. They can be otherwise straight shooting American patriots , even Trump voters ….but when it comes to ordering things that THEY WANT ; there they are hitting the ORDER button on Amazon .
I used to be one of those people . Sooo convenient , so easy ….so ‘ all in one place’ …. NOW = you could not pay me to order one damn thing from Amazon.com . Or any of it’s vendors. Zero , nothing , nada . There comes a time when we MUST draw a line . No matter how it impacts our ‘convenience ‘ F ‘convenience’ !
DO THE RIGHT THING and BOYCOTT AMAZON
I’ll be darned,I forgot about those -—the one pictured could only handle packages for 4 residents.
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Really?
I’m rural and use Amazon a lot, as a Prime member. Everything comes UPS, promptly and to my door.
OTOH, I have suppliers that offer Sure Post. One extra day, UPS to my PO and then delivered to either my mailbox or, if it’s too big, to my front door by USPS.
My orders go to my accounts via UPS except for the one that will pay full freight if I ship on their account number via FedEx, because they get a discount.
I ship all retail orders via USPS. With PayPal, it’s just more convenient.
If I sell on eBay and ship via USPS, eBay gives me a discount.
Shipping varies.
Not everywhere. In some areas if you live within one mile of the local Post Office, you do not get mail delivery at home.
Uhm...Amazon does not pay for the postage, their customers do. It's the customers that should get the discount. Prime is not a discount. Items on Prime are more expensive to cover the cost of the postage.
That looks like my neighborhood mailbox set-up. I order a lot from amazon. When they ship UPS, FedEX, or OnTrac, it’s delivered to my doorstep. When they ship USPS, it’s delivered to my neighborhood’s mailbox bank (as in your photo) and I have to go a few blocks to retrieve it. Not nearly as convenient when there’s a couple feet of snow on the ground. I order less from amazon than I used to because of this, especially in the winter.
We live 30 miles from a Amazon distribution center. Amazon is doing their own delivery.
I live about 1/2 mile,if that, from the PO and get USPS Amazon home delivery.
I’m surprised to learn that there is such inconsistency.
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Never seen those before. I would hate that. Of course we have no new neighborhoods in my town.
Guess what! My local Post office is open only FOUR hours per day! Mail delivered today by truck will be sorted tomorrow. Most working people pick up their mail on Saturday.
Already shipping by drone where I live. My brand spanking new Amazon Echo was delivered by drone right to my front door. Freaking cool.
If you pay taxes, it's on you too.
From 2015:
American taxpayers give an $18 billion gift to the post office every year
Today, an Amazon delivery via USPS landed at my front door. But it was for someone six blocks away. Right number, wrong street. Good ole USPS! I drove it over to the other guy's house. USPS will claim it's delivered; they just won't make sure it's to the correct house.
It makes me glad to live in an older neighborhood with mailboxes mounted right next to the doors. USPS will put small packages in the mailbox. Everyone else will put it on the porch right along with the big USPS boxes.
If you catch the drone you get to keep it - it's against USPS regulations to keep the mailman if you catch him. :-)
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