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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The only reason I know for going USPS is if delivery is to a PO box. UPS can't do that, so must hand off.
Other than that, were I Amazon, I'd just use UPS and not get the PO in the mix.
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Yeah, you'd think, right? See my note, above. They're perfectly happy with this subcontracting crap, because it's cheaper. |
That was my assumption.
Amazon is the world's largest catalog retailer. They are working in territory pioneered by Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward. Sears grew huge by being the retailer to rural America, in the days when far more of the US
was rural. If your general store didn't carry it, you were looking as a long trip to the nearest large town or city to get it. But Sears carried everything, put it in a catalog, and you could order from the catalog and they'd deliver. Amazon moved the catalog online and dropped the brick and mortar stores, but still delivered.
But delivery is expensive, and Amazon wants to cut costs. I heard they were actually losing money on a fair bit of Prime stuff because of delivery costs. So if they can hand off to UPS, and UPS can in turn subcontract to USPS, and it's cheaper to do it that way, Amazon will.
Bad for the customer? Hey. Amazon
owns you. What can you do
instead? Chances are you can't, really, and must suck it up and deal.
I buy next to nothing from Amazon. We get the odd British edition of something from Amazon UK, but that's about it. Of course, I live in NYC, where anything I'm likely to buy through Amazon is probably available from a brick and mortar outfit in walking distance, and wht get it shipped when I can simply carry it home?
So I can breathe a sigh of relief that I
don't have to deal with Amazon.
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Dennis