This is a perfect illustration of why we should not privatize essential services.
Thankfully food delivery isn’t essential, therefore it should be privatized (preferably by a restaurant that delivers to places hundreds of miles away by plane)
“Essential” is your criteria? To be clear, you’re saying that anything that’s an actual human need, should be state run?
The mail is, yes.
We probably shouldn’t, but this is a terrible example why.
It’s a service offered in exchange for currency. No one is forcing anyone to request food delivery service over Uber or whatever. It’s pure and simple convenience
The other is a state service, which might surprise some but manages quite a lot of citizens private information. Certainly nothing as banal as food
I’m sure the food is cheaper if you ordered it more than 24h beforehand
I’m offering budget food delivery. 3 day delivery guaranteed.
If there was a service like this, I’d probably buy there every day. I can plan 1-2 days ahead what I’d like to eat, but more is harder. This would be perfect.
One of these is a government service and subsidized.
the postal system is significantly more efficient
And guess which one gets paid more.
No disrespect for the delivery people, but these apps need to tone the fuck down.
Er do people actually pay that high of fees for Uber eats? Maybe in NYC or something? I don’t really use it if I can help it but I’ve never seen fees that high.
I’ve had high fees but things are hidden, like, increased prices, tips, fees and stuff? I got my license last year so now I can drive on my own to get stuff but being in the burbs without transport in these poorly designed towns blows.
Government vs private.
It’s the same with healthcare believe it or not.
I think that if food delivery was treated how my last postal package was treated, then all food would be arriving as a soup, or maybe as a goulash.
Don’t worry, they are already trying to get rid of the USPS so we can be charged ridiculous amounts for mail delivery.
Don’t worry, it’s been just two weeks. Elon and his minions are coming for it.
A lot of USPS offices are in prime locations in many cities. The real estate alone is worth hundreds of billions, at least.
How much is same-day courier service though?
Not just same day, same hour. That 1/3 cost comes with a 50x delay.
Today we are learning about economies of scale, kids!
See the giant bag? He’s got multiple orders in it.
Not as efficient as driving to every mailbox in a row, to be sure.
But it also doesn’t cost Uber probably more than 25% of what they charge for an order, to pay the delivery driver.
A lot of it is about latency too. You’re paying to have someone go get it right now and take it to you right now. Post services pick up stuff daily and get it there over the course of a week or so depending on where exactly it’s going. If you were paying someone to come to you, pick it up, drive it straight to where it’s going, well, it’d be faster, but cost a ton more.
USPS should not focus on profitability and fuck Uber and the gig economy.
yes! it is a SERVICE Americans already pay for in taxes, the need to make a profit on it makes no sense.
No we don’t. The USPS is not tax funded, it is self funded by shipping costs and stamp sales.
I have been bamboozled, swore it was
Even worse, it was made “unprofitable” by being required to have a ridiculously high standard of pension coverage, which I believe just ended or ends soon.
Now they will swing hard in the other direction. Heaven forbid you have TOO MUCH pension coverage as inflation spikes.
wow… no wonder we will never get free healthcare in this country
Things are fucked from the top down. It’s by design, It’s a long listen but worth checking out How Conservatism Won by Robert Evans. He lays out in a clear concise way “how a consortium of rich failsons got together to fund a network of right wing think tanks and shift American culture in a fun new direction. (note: it was not actually fun at all).” They’ve been very successful and those think tanks are now pipelines used to funnel ideological purists into powerful positions like our current Supreme Court.
It’s not even a conspiracy, it’s all easily verifiable. These people do not share our American values. They do not value freedoms (speech, press, religion, etc) the same way that many of us do. They want a return to the gilded age with them as the robber barons and landed gentry and everyone else as a permanent, toiling underclass.
I’d be very fine with it being tax funded instead of being funded by stamps and parcel metering. We might have much less shit mail as a result. It was an actual part of this government, not a corporation like now, before 1970, when the Reorg Act went into effect. Look before 1970 then USPS workers were not allowed to collectively bargain but that still could have been achieved with the a different outcome in 1970.
I would be very fine with tax funding because as a service the work they do facilitates other sectors’ viabilities. There might also be more accountability to help the workers.
Cooking, the lost art.
