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To: Alberta's Child
the Postal Service doesn’t actually lose money on its Amazon business.

If I try shipping the same package with the same weight through the Postal Service it costs me a lot more money.

They don't lose $10,000 delivering the 200 packages in the bundle for Amazon. They lose it shipping my package at a "bargain basement" rate that is subsidized by Amazon.

7 posted on 04/25/2020 5:03:53 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

If I have a delivery business that costs $100,000 per year to operate and I deliver 10,000 packages, then the average cost is $10 per package. But if 80% of my cost is from operating a building and buying delivery vehicles and 20% of the cost is from paying staff and fueling the vehicles for delivery, then I can still make money by delivering a bunch of packages for $5. That’s because the cost of the building and buying the vehicles is a FIXED cost that I have already paid regardless of how many packages I deliver.


12 posted on 04/25/2020 5:14:51 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And somewhere in the darkness ... the gambler, he broke even.")
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