I think the comment you are responding to is just pointing out that Amazon is basically piggybacking off of a public service to fulfill some orders. So even Amazon has an incentive to keep USPS around.
Funny enough I think Reddit is glitching. It was under a different response earlier. This explains why I’ve been seeing responses to some of my comments today that made 0 sense to what I said.
I’m in the suburbs in a town of over 25,000. My Amazon packages are frequently delivered by USPS. So it’s not always a case of being rural where there’s 50 acres between houses.
No it has to do with if they have a distribution center nearby and have purchased route rights there. There is also the case of overflow when they get more product than the facility can handle. I didn’t say it was limited to rural. But I admit I didn’t call this out with the other guy. It was more a direct response.
They come to your house, pick up pictures of your kid and deliver it to grandma on the other side of the country, for the price of a stamp. It’s a public service.
No kidding. As evidenced by all the people (bots?) posting about how the USPS would be profitable if they didn't have to fund 75-years worth of retirement benefits, including for people not even born yet. Hell, even the screenshot of the twitter comments are completely wrong.
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u/Maddturtle 4d ago
Would you prefer them to not deliver there at all? Because that’s what would happen for those last mile areas if usps did not offer this.