Another view of Amazon - and why it is failing

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? | Amazon | The Guardian

Bezos bailed for a reason. Fun read, if noting else./

 

,,,,,, so who do we root for here?

US Postal Service Mail Carrier Shot By Amazon Driver | ZeroHedge

 

i dont get shit from amazon. someone else can pay for bezos next set of rubber tits to play with.

 

pure socialist drivel. free market capitalism never existed on amazon. socialist and crony capitalism
always fails. free market capitalism produces abundance and competition. to bad it no longer exists.

from story
“What do you expect? Capitalism always produces crises of production. Enshittification is just a sweary euphemism for capitalism.”

 

When brick and mortar don't carry it and won't get it, Amazon to the rescue. I spend a ton at the local hardware store over Lowes and Home Depot, buy parts at the locally owned auto parts store instead of a big chain, and it costs me more money. There are things they don't have, especially for my ham radio habit, and amazon becomes the only reasonable answer. We all made Amazon and it won't go away soon.

 

This, I TRY and TRY to buy from brick and mortar stores but a LOT of the time, I have to resort to Amazon. After driving around, wasting time and gas looking for something, I can go home, log on and in most cases, get it the next day.

 

Amazon it just like any other 'Big Box' store. It destroys the 'big box' store (Walmart, Meijers, Target) that destroyed your local/regional mom&pops or 3 county retail empires. Some items I'll pay more for like tools from the local hardware that seem to be better made anyway. Some items aren't available locally (well at least until Walmart came to town), but there are some items where I have to make a 6 hour drive round trip to the big city to get ... yeah, I'm ordering it on Amazon.
Same goes for commodity items like paper products, pet supplies, bulk stuff .. save 30 percent and I don't have to expend fuel nor time to obtain it. Yeah, why wouldn't I use Amazon?

 

some dumbazz street thug tries to kill someone - How is there a decision to be made?

think a resident wouldn't have been eventually shot? - the thug was out there most likely illegally armed as a standing criminal with priors back to his childhood - that USPS had to be cleaner just by the virtue of a FED job ......

 

I do 99% of my shopping online and Amazon is who I hit first. Why? Because they got it and it's almost always at the best price that you can find so why waste time searching other sites. Plus, there is no hassle about returning items and it's super easy.

Their business model is solid as is their client base and, frankly, I don't see them going anyplace but into other markets, like prescription medicines. As far as the brick-and-mortar stores, it is what it is, times change, and customers cannot afford the extra cost to maintain those stores, nor do you get as great a selection of products.

 

the thug was a amazon driver, can usps restrict competing delivery's, no good side here.

 

"USPS workers don’t let people in the area when they have the mailboxes open. The Amazon driver didn’t particularly like that,"

if you read the story the amazon thug was mad at the usps dickhead telling him he had to wait till he is done.
my point remains. can the guv tell private industry to shut up and wait? again,,,, no good guy in this.
the usps is wholly corrupt and unsalvageable,,,, didnt they get like 5 million rounds of ammo and rifles, pistols?
maybe that was hhs.

 

if the amazon driver had keys to access the same mail boxs then it was hubris on both sides. they both had offramps to avoid this. im not defending amazon,,,, or usps. i guess i have just seen what the power of gubermint does to ego.

 

Most USPS mail carriers just want to make it through their day. Never seen one in my decades on this planet with a 'I'm a government man' chit on their shoulder. If you have than maybe ya pissed him off.
Otherwise, they are just over worked and under paid like the rest of us hoping to make it to their pension.

 

I ship USPS exclusively but pretty much order everything I buy that isn't perishable or hardware from Amazon.

I do the HEB or Michoacana markets for food and herbal meds. In a rare emergency, I go to Dollar General. Sunday morning after church is the normal time for that run.

 

im not siding with either. they both suck. the poor hardworking mail man at 60 to 90k a year is still driving a 6.2 billion deficit. who pays that,,, hint, its us. 15 billion in debt,,,the 18.8 billion they made last quarter is not covering the 22 billion they spent. our postmaster makes 180k in a town of 3,000. im glad you have not had a po clerk say ha ha fuck your pkg we are sending it back. funny i can get a notice in my po box they are returning my pkg,, but not one to pick it up while its there.
fuck you with a smile. i hope they finally fail and get privatized so they have to compete for our business instead of the union protected monopoly they enjoy now. in my humble opinion.
maybe i pissed them off by expecting my pkg be delivered.

 

Are you sure about that?
They are not supported by tax payer dollars but by postage, boxes and fees for their service. There isn't a line item in the US budget that says xxx billion for the USPS for facilities, vehicles and employees, etc.
They are in debt but are able to make their debt payment. Kind like folks that owe 25k on their credit card but only make the minimum payment. Yep, they are in debt but just struggling along.
They will not fail as since the beginning of the country, they have a mandate to deliver mail to every address regardless if it's profitable or not. So, If you live 75 miles out in the bush and ya get a letter .. they are going to get a plane, fly it in and deliver that there letter from a lawyer telling you to cease and desist.. Never mind that the USPS only got paid 5 bucks for it and it will probably cost the service 400 dollars .. the mail will get through eventually.



Also, I believe that our grandparents were glad for the postal service so they could get letters to their loved ones overseas fighting the nazis and nips (or pick your favorite overseas-enemy name)