[Cincinatus' Wife]

He wants capitalism with out capitalism.

What a dilemma.

[MNnice]

But we get packages on Sunday, so it’s all good, right? Because what the consumer wants is best, right? Because success in the current era of capitalism is fundamentally predicated on consumer bliss, right?

That's exactly right!  As Milton Friedman would remind us, the real power of free markets is consumer choice.  The consumer drives the economy by their choices of who to patronize and who not to patronize.

And can we please stop using the word "workers?"  It's a Marist term.

[Buckeye McFrog]

You get your purchase quicker, and a postal carrier gets to keep his job. Why is this not a win-win?

[yldstrk]

Amazon can also set up a website that works well

[OldMissileer]

Is there anybody at Salon who is old enough to remember when the US Mail was delivered every single day of the week? These "people" at Salon are dolts.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I’m missing something here. The Post Office has long threatened to stop Saturday delivery. If they do so, it would seem to make sense that Amazon make a deal with them for Saturday and Sunday delivery.

Sunday is actually a more cost effective delivery day, because there is less traffic. The USPS still has to do its behind the scenes transport on Sunday, anyway, so there will be mail to deliver on Monday.

I see some more potential here as well. If other companies take advantage of package delivery on Sunday, it would significantly improve volume efficiencies. That is, just delivering mail during the week would take a lot of pressure off home deliveries.

[Celtic Conservative]

What a doofus. Postal systems were a for profit arrangement in Franklins time. The job of postmaster for a given area or territory was secured at the cost of the postmaster. How efficiently and effectively the service ran decided the postmasters "salary". It was completely possible for the postmaster to lose money, and some did. But liberals apparently aren't too big on history, because they love repeating it so often.

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