Posted on 07/13/2017 6:44:08 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
A Citigroup analysis finds each box gets a $1.46 subsidy. It’s like a gift card from Uncle Sam.
In my neighborhood, I frequently walk past “shop local” signs in the windows of struggling stores. Yet I don’t feel guilty ordering most of my family’s household goods on Amazon. In a world of fair competition, there will be winners and losers.
But when a mail truck pulls up filled to the top with Amazon boxes for my neighbors and me, I do feel some guilt. Like many close observers of the shipping business, I know a secret about the federal government’s relationship with Amazon: The U.S. Postal Service delivers the company’s boxes well below its own costs. Like an accelerant added to a fire, this subsidy is speeding up the collapse of traditional retailers in the U.S. and providing an unfair advantage for Amazon.
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(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
“Amazon ships an average of 608 million packages each year, which equates to (an estimated) 1,600,000 packages a day. That’s a lot of cardboard boxes, even when we consider some of the packaging used may be padded envelopes.”
https://www.quora.com/How-many-boxes-does-Amazon-ship-every-day
It’s good business to have liberal friends where gov’t has spent money building an infrastructure.
The liberals make certain that other liberals prosper.
$2.33M dollars a day subsidy
If I had a customer that shipped 1.6 million packages per day, I’d give them a discount too.
A nightmare for the rural mail carriers.
Not as good of a gig as it used to be.
I am an Amazon.Com customer and I DO NOT APPRECIATE Amazon now sending my purchases via the USPS vice UPS!!!!!!!!!!
Used to be Amazon used UPS and my stuff was promptly and quicly delivered to my door with NO HASSLES!
NOW Amazon is in cahoots w/USPS and I have to trek a block up the street and hump my stuff (sometimes bulky/heavy stuff) back home, rain or hotshine!
Why—aside from the $— would a sharp outfit like Amazon want to throw in with the No.1 world-class inept outfit??????????
It’s like obama back in the saddle again—the closest comparison I can come up with @ the moment!
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I use Amazon Prime so all my orders are shipped UPS where I live. Didn’t realize Amazon made such huge use of the postal service, which has been very reliable from what I’ve noticed on packages I receive via USPS.
So when Amazon starts shipping by drone the US postal system may finally go out of business.
Enough of a discount to bring the price to less than what it costs you? Lose a little on every item and make up for it with volume?
“NOW Amazon is in cahoots w/USPS and I have to trek a block up the street and hump my stuff (sometimes bulky/heavy stuff) back home, rain or hotshine!”
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What are you talking about?
The USPS delivers Amazon packages directly to the home.
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I guess UPS couldn’t swing the same sweet kickback deal, as USPS could... with OUR tax dollars!!!
This is an outrage. Bezos - of ALL people - doesn’t need a subsidy.
We have a designated Amazon USPS delivery person, in addition to the regular delivery USPS person, on our route.
So, get your orders in now....?
Much depends on where you live, many of our Amazon orders are delivered by a private company not USPS or UPS.
I frequently receive same day delivery brought by the USPS.
I don’t care how it’s shipped just keep it cheap.
It is kind of nifty to get stuff delivered on Sunday.
“We have a designated Amazon USPS delivery person, in addition to the regular delivery USPS person, on our route.
Very interesting.
I don’t know if we have that because I’m in an apartment building and all packages are delivered to a mail room———always many from Amazon in there,including mine.:-)
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During the Christmas season, I noticed a USPS van in our condo development one Sunday as I went out to church. I was surprised they were delivering on Sunday and asked the driver about it. He said they had a contract with amazon.
Personally, I don’t care how my stuff gets here (to the door, by the way), as long as it gets here. If the USPS took the deal with amazon, if it costs them more to deliver than they’re being paid, that’s on them and their business planners, not me.
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