Comment on Amazon packages reportedly overwhelm small post offices, delaying other mail

• BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  USPS offices in small city has no say in which contracts gets accepted by the Postmaster General and the board…

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  • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Then that means USPS is at fault for having made a shitty decision, not Amazon for being too big for the post office.

    If you get such an avalanche of packages that you can’t deliver them anymore, then that contract should’ve been better negotiated. It should bring you enough money to expand everywhere you need to handle the load. If you are unable to do that, don’t accept responsibility / the contract.

    Imagine someone approaching a machining business saying “we need 1500 of these parts a month”. You accepting the cash and contract, then going to your smaller clients and saying “sorry folks, this big bad company is giving us too much business, we can’t fulfil our old contracts :(”

    I get it, shitting on Amazon is trendy, and they deserve it. But this case seems like the post fucked up royally, and they only have themselves to blame.

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    • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You see it as a contract between 2 companies, which is fundamentally wrong. It’s a contract with an independently run federal agency in the public sector having a contract with a for-profit company. It’s not the same thing, sorry.

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      • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah it is, just don’t sign the contract if you can’t fulfil it.

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