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As the article states: > Packages are just 5% of its shipping volume but eCommerce accounts for nearly 30% of the agency’s revenue. To describe this as “taxpa
by untog 6y ago
As the article states:
> Packages are just 5% of its shipping volume but eCommerce accounts for nearly 30% of the agency’s revenue.
To describe this as “taxpayers subsidising business costs” is ridiculous.
- nostrebored 6y agoYeah, and it's still a fundamentally --insane-- service, delivering packages to the middle of nowhere, for absolutely no reason. Getting your bizarre ecommerce purchases delivered to the middle of nowhere is not a reasonable business. Treating it as a necessary public service is even more unreasonable.
- googthrowaway42 6y agoHuh? Revenue is not profit. What are the costs associated with delivering those packages?