Posted on 04/25/2020 4:56:55 AM PDT by SanchoP
“A private company would run lean and mean.”
Yes, they would hire Indians or illegals.
Amazon and its customers
As they should
Most of them work their butts off.
Getting rid of Saturday delivery and post offices open Saturday mornings could save some dough.
Absolutely NO BAILOUTS or LOANS for GOVEY ENTITIES!! Outrageous!
Correct. And if a politician is calling for that he should make that quite clear.
I think UPS is handling all the air delivery for the USPS then dropping them off at the respective postal depots....
Did we ever do anything about China getting “developing nation” shipping to the US cheaper than domestic rates?
Fed,state or local
Probably not relevant. Amazon uses dirt cheap subcontractors for delivery in cities and suburbs. Then they let the Post Office deliver out in the sticks where nobody can make money.
A private company also has the right to inspect your mail. The post office does not unless they have a warrant. I really don’t want a private company reading my mail but maybe I’m one of the few that cares about privacy.
It would be a whole new ballgame. All their business with Amazon and the other companies would go to UPS, Fed Ex, Amazon's own delivery service, and other delivery services leaving the Post Office with nothing except certain elimination.
With all the businesses going under because of Amazon, one wonders why the feds haven’t gone after Amazon as a monopoly.
Don’t want to insult Amazon, or are afraid Amazon will just replicate the PO package services way more efficiently?
What would happen at this point if Amazon took their packages out of the USPS system? Could what’s left be delivered without losing money, or how much money would be lost if that happened?
How much could prices go up without UPS and/or FedEx simply taking the business for their betterment?
And though the USPS is constitutionally mandated, how much outsourcing to other providers (e.g., UPS/FedEx) could or should be done most efficiently while staying within the Constitution?
The real issue is unionization. Everyone sees the slow as molasses workers at the post office. And that’s what’s out front in view.
Sam’s question seems to be how much would the boondocks rates have to go up to attract other providers.
Not necessarily if that’s what it takes to keep Amazon’s larger business.
Work for 25-30 years, retire with full pay($35/hr) and benefits and live for another 40 years. Same problem with other Unions. That’s why Mexicans make American car components, so overpaid union people in this country can snap together components made elsewhere.
And that’s why taxpayers have to bail them out.
Guess that means that We The People are enabling Amazon their profits $$$ by them using USPS trucks for delivery...
Pretty well nails it.
Only Amazon packages ever lost were those with the USPS as final delivery carrier. They just leave packages in a common publically-accessable area where the mailboxes are.
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