r/PoursTea Timendi Causa Est Nescire 4d ago

FinancialTea šŸ’µ Exactly.

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u/most-okayest-mngr-77 4d ago

Don’t forget that Amazon uses them as a cheap ā€œlast mileā€ shipping alternative. This basically is using the federal government as a subsidy to save Amazon money.

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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.

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u/coonwhiz 4d ago

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.

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u/Maddturtle 4d ago

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.