Amazon packages reportedly overwhelm small post offices, delaying other mail
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So don’t accept them. Force Amazon to full create their own full-fledged shipping company, like UPS or FedEx. I’m not talking last mile delivery but full fledged end-to-end delivery. They’re the second richest retailer behind Walmart, the can afford it and will most likely trickle down the cost to buyers.
Considering how hard the mail service has been nailed in modern times I'd rather they just took what they could get.
USPS is doing just fine in terms of volume. They absolutely do not need Amazon's business to remain in the black. The bad things you hear are mostly far right anti-USPS propaganda, they've been doing their best to weaken it for many years
Lemmy: The world is literally burning from fossil fuel and manufacturing!
Yep.
Also lemmy: Amazon's rich so they should just create a gigantic shipping fleet.
LOL wut?
Most of my Amazon deliveries come via the USPS, and that guy is coming by my house every day, no matter what.
If only there were two different people that have those opinions huh, instead we have just one hypocrite
Is that not what Amazon Logistics is? Or is that last mile only?
Tldr usps is underfunded and can't handle their existing contracts?
TLDR Amazon is making taxpayers fund their business model by dumping their work on USPS and pocketing the payment.
Which is the same thing every other retailer does.
None of those other retailers are as big as Amazon. So the resources required to do this for Amazon are so much more than other retailers that it isn’t feasible, as the article shows.
At the same time, no other retailers profit off the situation as much as Amazon. So Amazon can afford to fix the problem they caused and other retailers aren't even causing this problem.
Lololol business goes under due to too many customers 👌
Sounds like USPS should get its shit together.
USPS isn’t a business it’s a service
Then maybe the service, shouldn't promise things it can't deliver.
Or we could just fund it to the extent needed to serve the people it's meant to serve.
I'm pretty sure I'm ordering the packages.
How do you know what was promised? Can you share a copy of the contract?
More like Amazon dumping their unrealistic loads on USPS since they have no infrastructure to handle them. The original contract was for 2 big US cities, but now Amazon wants to expand it to small cities without providing the same support they were required to do for those 2 big cities.
Usps accepted the contract
You mean the federal government that can be easily bought? And the contract is secret, so nobody knows what it entails.
Let me remind you that the current Postmaster General is Louis DeJoy who used to be a CEO of a for-profit shipping company and has no experience in the public sector. And he's known to take bribes.
Just keep moving those goal posts.
Two things can be true at the same time. Nobody is disputing the contract existing or it being profitable for USPS, they got 1,9 billion from Amazon in 2019 from that contract which covered 2 big cities. The issue is it expanding to small cities that don't have the same requirements the original contract had for the 2 big cities.
If you don't see the problem with a random Amazon package being given priority over time sensitive bills or paychecks, you need to reexamine your perspective.
Then maybe they shouldn't accept contracts they can't deliver on 🤷♂️
USPS offices in small city has no say in which contracts gets accepted by the Postmaster General and the board...