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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?