Machines should work. Humans should THINK.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRg_1j-iWFU
Posted on 11/12/2013 3:13:48 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
What a dilemma.
I think I’m gonna cry < /s>
So, Amazon is making the USPS profitable, and this clown has a problem with that?
Amazon had a nice programmable one for about $40, including MA tax (new as of November) and zero shipping (due to Prime membership).
But I nevertheless shopped around, Amazon having recently caved to the MA DOR over the sales tax thing. Best I could do (no sales tax, but shipping extra) was only a few pennies less than Amazon Prime, so I gave the sale to Bezos, having learned that Prime shipping delivers as expected.
Just one report from the field. YMMV.
Cool — delivery on Sunday! Me likes!
It’s a good thing. I’d think most people who ordered an item the week before would much rather have it delivered on Sunday, when they’re home, than having it sit in a warehouse over the weekend.
Machines should work. Humans should THINK.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRg_1j-iWFU
He’s obviously envious that the private sector can innovate, execute and serve its customers......
>>> So, Amazon is making the USPS profitable, and this clown has a problem with that?
NO.
This clown is crying because USPS (and thus ‘gubmint’ as extension) needs a private sector bailout.
And if the adventure actually makes USPS ‘profitable’ (or as long as self-sustaining),
THEN this clown’s head is really going to explode.
Pretty funny Amazon carries Brad Stone’s book referenced in the article as: “In Brad Stone’s recent book on Amazon, he makes it abundantly clear that, by and large, working for Amazon sucks.”
So even though he wrote a book that supposedly slams Amazon or his experience working there, Amazon is making money off his sales! *laughing*
Long story, short: for 15 or 16 years, my life's been tied to Amazon in a sort of, humorous and ironic faux death-match....I know more about them than Stone does, that's for certain.
And it's also for certain that he's full of sh!t.
I was in a position to know about Bezos' decision to move from selling books to selling "everything on line" before it was publicly announced.
In fact - in what will probably amount to the most epic "miss" of my life - I chuckled a little and scoffed at the idea.
Now, Amazon's moved into the neighborhood I've lived in since 91, and taken over everything. My building's home to scores of Amazon programmers and engineers. I'm an IT Director who started in programming so, talking shop with these guy's has been pretty sweet.
I haven't heard any of them say so much as one thing negative about their jobs: they resprect Bezos and "by and large" enjoy where they work and what they do.
Microsoft employees, on the other hand...
I agree with that part of it. There are a few people (some in this thread) who buy out of need. Others buy out of desire or envy or boredom. I can't proclaim innocence since I am typing this post on my 2012 macbook air instead of some old beater laptop. I also have Amazon prime.
But the strength of our economy will not come from consumption but from savings. Those buying parts for repair or long lasting needed items are not part of my critique. But Sunday delivery in big cities is probably going to be a new and unnecessary iphone.
“I don’t think this is what Ben Franklin had in mind.”
Well I think it’s exactly what he had in mind.
Could this Brezos’ foot in the door — eventually negotiate and redo the USPS workers’ pension mess, sell off extra inventory, downsize workforce and then morph into another “private” competitor of FedEx?
Bump!
Imagine that ! The privatization of the USPS ? Better buy your Amazon stock now !!
For every one of those programmers there are ten people moving merchandise in a warehouse that are given impossible standards of performance, managed by managers that think they are lords of the realm and making sure that full time regular employees are filtered out of the system when they hit the top tier of wages.
This really is the way the mind of the liberal rolls.
“a functional government”
There is no incentive for “functionality” in government.
The incentive is for empire building and increased budgets.
This is why the “government” should be limited to it’s Constitutionally authorized functions.
>>You could be lying in bed, listening to this and get interrupted by a knock on the door from your U.S. Postal Service Amazon sub-contractor. <<
I order a lot from Amazon, and never once has the package been delivered with a knock at the door, never once has it been an interruption.
If the package is small enough, the mail carrier puts it in the mail box, if not, they leave it on the front porch.
So, no, I don’t share this hyperventilating twits assessment of the situation.
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