Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days agothere are a lot of companies that sell things direct to consumer, using the exact same shipping infrastructure that amazon would otherwise be using, if it doesnt already.
If you live rurally, go campaign for funding the USPS more, trump fucked that one, you can thank him for that.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
“If you don’t have access to even remotely consistent alternatives than just go solve the USPS for us” fuck off
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
thats the thing though, at that point the USPS is already going to be a problem, in literally every form of online order you make.
Amazon even uses USPS in some places from what i can remember, they mostly use their in house shit when it’s financially competitive.
And yes, the USPS is fundamental infrastructure, it is critically important to the functionality of the US as a whole. It’s the sole reason mail based communication even works. Without the USPS the federal government and most state governments lose a lot of power.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I don’t disagree with any of this but I also dont get the relevance. Amazon is what we have access to. That and Walmart.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
yeah, if you’re buying from a single retailer. There are a lot of places that sell products online, and they’re all very accessible. The only thing stopping you from using them is literally your own laziness.
Physical retailers is more of a limit, since there are only ever so many. But that’s part of the utility of something like the postal system.