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Old 12-10-2015, 02:07 PM   #22
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You know, it didn't even occur to me that books might be carried by train. I was using the railroad freight industry as another example of economy of scale. I totally missed the tree for the forest.

And hey, trees can carried by train too!
UPS is one of the users of the railroad. They literally put their truck trailers on flatbed rail cars. So your package from Amazon could literally take a train, a plane and a truck before it reaches your house.
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