Amazon Opposes Plan To End Saturday Mail Delivery 504
theodp writes "Online retailer giant Amazon.com has come out against a US Postal Service proposal to end Saturday service, part of efforts to address the USPS budget deficit. 'Amazon's customers have come to appreciate and expect Saturday delivery,' explained Amazon VP Paul Misener. 'If the five-day delivery proposal is not withdrawn,' he added, 'we ask that Congress ensure that Saturday delivery be maintained.' In the past, Amazon has argued that it should not have to help support public services in states in which it has no physical presence." The article adds, "Interestingly, online DVD service Netflix is backing the plan to end Saturday mail delivery, arguing that a 'well functioning' Postal Service is more important than 'maintaining current delivery frequency.'"
BP to pay for Saturday delivery, loss in postcards (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I need saturday mail pickup (Score:1, Funny)
Move to Canada - many postal outlets open 7 days a week.
Re:Neflix != Amazon, and postal service == bad (Score:4, Funny)
USPS, not always on time, but mostly reliable; premium services don't compare with FedEx; tracking isn't great
Shipped a package once USPS with a guaranteed delivery date (extra fee for the guaranteed shipping). Package arrived 5 days late. Attempted to collect my refund. Was told by USPS counter worker that they "did not guarantee their guarantee" and I would receive no refund.
Re:Skip Wednesday instead (Score:3, Funny)
That stuff only comes on Wednesday because the backlog of mail from over the weekend has finally subsided by Wednesday. If they got rid of Wednesday delivery, you'd just get the same crap on Thursday.
In that case, they'd better skip Thursday too.
Wimps (Score:5, Funny)
This just tells me that USPS employees are wimps ;)
Seriously, at one point, after getting used to ordering games and movies from Amazon and finding the DVD case in an envelope that just about fit through the mailbox slot, I order IIRC City Of Villains. The game was packed in one of those big cardboard boxes, instead of the DVD cases we've got for the last half a decade. It was easily twice as thick as the mailbox slot. The German post employee had obviously not been deterred by that, and had managed to actually shove the damned thing half-way through that narrow slot.
I had gained proper appreciation for the awesomeness of said employee while trying to get it out. It was so firmly jammed in the slot, that it wouldn't go either forward or back at all, no matter how hard I pulled or shoved. I had to tear the box apart, partially working through the slot at that, and retrieve its contents piece-wise. It wasn't just that the cardboard box was thicker than the slot, but the sum of what was inside, you know, manual and CDs and all, was actually thicker on the whole than the slot.
(And while I'm at being awed by employees, having to work through that narrow slot also gave me a new perspective and a deep respect for gynecologists;))
I'm thinking it must have been the kind of guy who, when asked to fit various geometric figures through various shaped holes in kindergarten, thought it was a test of strength.