4th February 2015, 6:19 AM
http://consumerist.com/2015/02/03/ups-ha...-delivery/
They're basically just flat out saying that it's too expensive to deliver individual packages to homes, so they're going to start charging more. This may lead to a push by all your favorite online retailers to ship packages to lock boxes located "nearby" where you live. Essentially, the milk man is dead again.
Except, it isn't. We still have USPS, and this is exactly why we need that service. This is exactly what happens when mail delivery is profit driven instead of mandate driven, and it's why the USPS needs to stick around, at least until we get teleportation technology.
They're basically just flat out saying that it's too expensive to deliver individual packages to homes, so they're going to start charging more. This may lead to a push by all your favorite online retailers to ship packages to lock boxes located "nearby" where you live. Essentially, the milk man is dead again.
Except, it isn't. We still have USPS, and this is exactly why we need that service. This is exactly what happens when mail delivery is profit driven instead of mandate driven, and it's why the USPS needs to stick around, at least until we get teleportation technology.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)