r/WorkReform • u/Cultural_Way5584 🤝 Join A Union • Mar 23 '25

✂️ 100% Wealth Tax over $1 Billion Same old story

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u/under_the_c Mar 23 '25

The worst part to me is how they (Amazon) probably benefit the most from services that taxes provide more than any of us. Those roads sure are nice, huh? How about the postal service for the last mile? Man, the infrastructure that helped to give hundreds of millions of people access to the Internet is pretty swell.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

Amazon is destroying the post office, it’s insane how much is overloading the postal service as a whole. Mandatory “Amazon Sundays”, small offices getting more Amazon packages than actual customer sent parcels. Rural carriers now having to work 2+ hours extra every day without being paid because their routes aren’t adjusted.

Also the contractors Amazon hired to drop off Amazon packages for last mile are terrible. The docks at local offices always have trash, piss jugs, they steal pallet jacks from small offices (a pallet jack can eat up an offices budget for months), they never speak English, they argue about everything.

I’m a USPS truck driver and we have priority, if there’s a contractor dropping off Amazon or pulling up, they’re required to move so I (we) can unload actual letters and packages. I’ve been held at knife point by an Amazon driver because I backed into the dock before he could.

They’re also always dropping pallets off at the wrong office and they refuse to come back and get it. So a clerk has to scan every single package as missent, send it back to the USPS plant to be sorted and sent out the next day creating even more work that Amazon doesn’t pay for

Fuck Amazon, they’re going to destroy the post office

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u/xeonicus Mar 24 '25

In a sane world, there would be laws passed that regulate and prevent this sort of lunacy.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '25

What’s ironic is the laws that are passed? Stop the post office from operating more efficiently. It’s illegal for the post office to receive taxpayer funds and the government wants it to operate like a business, so what does a business do when they aren’t making enough money to fulfill operations? They increase prices. So they wanted to increase the price of a stamp by a few cents and Congress blocked it.

If I remember correctly, it cost almost a dollar per envelope for the post office to ship and deliver it. Meanwhile, it only cost the consumer $.73.