No wonder the U.S. Postal Service has been going bankrupt and perpetually overspending - because Amazon Inc is taking ADVANTAGE of them while paying next to zip in effective taxes. This needs to be remedied immediately. The taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize a private company in this manner except by vote of public referendum or elected representatives.
Im ok with corp taxes to fund military. No personal income tax. Income tax is a cost of legal liability protection. Corporations, in the past were temporary to complete dangerous projects like transcontinental railroads, to protect the owners from losing everything over an employee death or injury. The executives have no personal responsibility which leads to shotty products
It’s not just amazon. It’s e-commerce and really all package rates in general. In the post office every package is massively cheaper than FedEx. On Mercari I can ship a package via USPS for $4.99 that costs $9.99 on UPS.
USPS is just stupid signing all these low price rate deals, and having stupid low pricing.
There is a reason UPS doesn’t compete on rate. Because it’s impossible to do so while maintaining a profitable business!
It is because they are subsidized by the government. Waste of money. Liberals would try to smugly say "Achtually the government doesn't subsidize the USPS." They basically do in a roundabout way. The USPS gets loans from the government, yet they report a loss every single year. How the fuck are you going to pay pack a loan when you aren't making any money? Government giving money to an organization without them paying it back sounds like subsidization to me.
No wonder the U.S. Postal Service has been going bankrupt and perpetually overspending - because Amazon Inc is taking ADVANTAGE of them while paying next to zip in effective taxes. This needs to be remedied immediately. The taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize a private company in this manner except by vote of public referendum or elected representatives.
We also subsidize mail coming in from China.
Cancel ePacket completely. It's sometimes cheaper to get something from China than across the US.
In a perfect world, we shut China off like North Korea is.
In a perfect world, we stop trade with China. and make more stuff over here
Oh god yes
This right here is what is totally fucked. I can get a package from China cheaper than if my neighbor mailed me a package.
Because some poor slave in China is working with no pay, that's why. And the left is praising these corporations..
OP is referring to just the cost of shipping.
For non-letter packages under a pound it's almost always cheaper to get something via ePacket from China than it is to ship cross country via USPS.
Thought he ended this a while back ago? I swear I heard about this and libs complaining international mail would become super costly
It's crazy to think it's cheaper to mail a package from Beijing to Memphis than it is to mail a package from Philadelphia to Memphis.
taxation is theft tho
Taxation is extortion because we pay under duress.
Im ok with corp taxes to fund military. No personal income tax. Income tax is a cost of legal liability protection. Corporations, in the past were temporary to complete dangerous projects like transcontinental railroads, to protect the owners from losing everything over an employee death or injury. The executives have no personal responsibility which leads to shotty products
Tariffs on foreign trade funded our government for roughly half it's life. Why we'd instead subsidize foreign trade is certainly odd.
The other half has involved us policing the world and trying to drag certain groups into the modern age.
It’s not just amazon. It’s e-commerce and really all package rates in general. In the post office every package is massively cheaper than FedEx. On Mercari I can ship a package via USPS for $4.99 that costs $9.99 on UPS.
USPS is just stupid signing all these low price rate deals, and having stupid low pricing.
There is a reason UPS doesn’t compete on rate. Because it’s impossible to do so while maintaining a profitable business!
It is because they are subsidized by the government. Waste of money. Liberals would try to smugly say "Achtually the government doesn't subsidize the USPS." They basically do in a roundabout way. The USPS gets loans from the government, yet they report a loss every single year. How the fuck are you going to pay pack a loan when you aren't making any money? Government giving money to an organization without them paying it back sounds like subsidization to me.
Yes, but USPS shouldn't be allowing anyone to take advantage of them... they just deliberately run shittily.