Posted on 02/01/2017 9:32:02 AM PST by Cronos
I wrote a supply chain paper on food distribution to schools in India. It was working with poor districts throughout the country and setting up kitchens to create meals and then using a logistics system to get meals to the schools every day.
So this would be my suggestion. All those left wing chefs who knock evil republicans because they make too much money can split the cost between them, since they don’t really need to live in penthouses and villas with $25,000 cooking appliances. They can set up cooking facilities and working with wealthy donors provide the food.
Then based on areas throughout the country that need this type of service, the USPS can outsource to third party vendors who in addition to delivering food will also pick up day to day mail delivery. The other facilities they can sell off to FedEx and UPS.
Cost to taxpayers, zero.
Food insecure and food deserts. Leftist BS talk for more welfare. Food deserts is code for stores won’t stay in business in neighborhoods where they are robbed and shot at constantly. Free money for groceries isn’t enough, now they want it delivered to them too.
What a bunch of ma1arkey! 1 out of 7 people I know IS NOT FOOD DEPRIVED and we are a very rural. Your just plain stupid if you are starving in city and I don’t care how poor you are.
The grocery chain HEB in uber lib Austin, TX so very concerned with food deserts that they’re going to build a store in the middle of one. Of course, it’ll take a year or so before the store will open so they’re working with farmers markets, donations and such so HEB can set up tents with food. Cue the choir with “Kumbayah” and keep Austin weird.
Excuse me, but HEB is the only game in town where we live so they’re screwing us every which way they can. In Austin, they have nice stores, clean, bright lights, a large variety of items and brands, decent meats and produce. Here? Ha! We get “fresh” bread that’s frozen, old nasty produce that other stores refuse and very few brand choices. The meat dept. is c r a p. Aside from ground beef, there may be 5 ft. of space for beef so the cuts are limited. On top of that, they will only put out 4 packages of each cut which means the person ahead of you just bought it out. Most of the time, there’s no milk or you’ll have someone begging you to give them one of your two gallons. You take your VERY basic grocery list and come home with a fourth of what you went for. Half the items in the weekly circular are never ordered and they don’t accept coupons.
But, hey, instead of giving their regular customers decent produce, they’re getting fresh from the farm produce for “food deserts” in tents. There are food deserts because of theft. Tents. Theft. Hmm, what could possibly go wrong? And they’ll be sure to pass the losses to me.
Clean up in the 400 block of Elm and nearby Peach St.
USPS always complain they’re going broke but they have plenty of money to donate to the Olympics.
That’s what I noticed. A half a mile. I’m just shaking my head.
Email has killed USPS, but Amazon (and other) deliveries are saving it I believe.
And Amazon will probably be moving into grocery delivery. There is no doubt a market for having your basic predictable grocery staples delivered weekly to your door, you then only go to the market for the odds and ends.
That’s assuming it can be done at a reasonable price. If delivery was done by USPS, that would probably put them back on the road to being profitable. I do believe USPS should be privatized, though. Hence, my remark that maybe Amazon should just buy them.
Call it a tax and it'll sail right through.
You're depressing me!
Regards,
MREs, but not fresh food. We don’t want the post office to deliver wilted produce.
Second, USPS service stinks. My lazy incompetent mailman always puts my mail in the mailbox of my neighbor, leaving it for her, who is not paid to sort the mail, to remove my mail from the pile in her mailbox and put it into mine. Last week, it was raining like a monsoon and my magazine got completely ruined from being in my neighbor's leaky plastic junk mailbox instead of my steel lockable waterproof mailbox. I called (once again) to complain. If you used USPS to deliver food, it would moulder and rot before it reached its recipients, and attract vermin to mailboxes.
Good observation, and well stated FRiend.
Good lord.
“NEWMAN!”
Private groups already have a well developed system of food distribution in urban areas. In my area it is called Harvesters. They have tractor trailers to pick up donated food and move it around. They also solicit trucking companies to donate spare space on their loads.
From their hub in town, churches, food pantries, etc can pick up the food. Its already a well developed system, without getting the post office involved. They also deliver once a week to schools, to give the kids a backpack of food for the weekend...because they get free school food during the week but can’t depend on their craptastic parents to provide food over the weekend. Its thousands of backpacks a week.
Admittedly the local county government does make a block grant to this group every year, but its a lot more privatized than the post office would be.
The nearest store was across from Madison Park on Division Street, a goodly hike. Looking back on this I wish I could have heard her story.
I've only spent a little time in NYC, but I am assuming these "food deserts" exist there, right? How could they, with a freaking 'bodega' on every corner? I'll never understand the nutty left.
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