This sums it up well. Outbox clearly didn't do their due diligence and seemed to just hope for the best without thinking through the logical implications of ho

This sums it up well. Outbox clearly didn't do their due diligence and seemed to just hope for the best without thinking through the logical implications of how the one entity they depended on would react. I think this poorly-written hack job article is also a nice cover for a failed business model. And just to drive home the point, here's a comment I made a year ago about the (un-) feasibility of their business model: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5822869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5822869 Now it's true that these economics came after the Post Office "forced them" to do house-to-house "undelivery", but failing to anticipate these contingencies is simply a lack of adequate planning.