Using USPS, taxpayers are funding his operation indirectly. USPS operates at gargantuan losses and we pick up the tab.

Crony corporate welfare...nice.

 

The post office along with anything the government (military, FEMA, etc.) ships doesn't even remotely close to a competitive rate. God bless pork!

Amazon is seeking to become a fulfillment company be that in server farms (their big money maker now) or in fulfilling orders to customers. Amazon wants to store somebody else's stuff and collect fees all up and down the supply chain without having to put a lot of their own money into the mix unless that money comes with profit.

Amazon is changing the status quo the same way FedEx did 40yrs ago. Just as everyone thought Fred Smith was crazy, everyone thinks Bezos is crazy. Time will tell but it is a pretty smart way for them to shrink costs by slicing out middlemen.

 

So before you know it, Amazon will be using pilotless airplanes to hubs, to have the packages sent to homes by their drones. Oh no, they're gonna take over!

Or maybe they'll realize how difficult it is, and the effort is not worth the tiny profit margin. Or maybe they'll make a decent go of it, if they get the right team in place. Amazon has a reputation for decent pay, but of burning people out by overworking them. That doesn't work too well with pilots, who actually need to stay awake and halfway lucid, so maybe they'd better figure out the pilotless aircraft.

And their entire plan was put together in the last two weeks after Christmas. UPS failed them last year, and FedEx failed them this year by being unable to control the weather, so out of desperation, they just came up with this plan. Or not. Seems like they've been thinking about this for awhile, and if it fails, I'm sure they'll have someone other than management to blame. I doubt it has anything to do with thinking they can actually do a better job than their competitors. Someone thinks they have a way to make a buck, and who knows, maybe they do.

 

The Voodoo was never on display in Wilmington. It was left at ILN after being used for some tests of an aircraft recovery system, to the best of my recollection.

 

You do know that the Post Office loses money primarily because it has to prefund postal workers retirement, right? No other government agency has such a burden.

 

The U.S. government has over $200 trillion in unfunded liabilities.

And USPS unionized, which Jeff doesn't like so much.

 

Then the USPS (us taxpayers) are indirectly funding Fred Smith's operation.

You're correct. Crony corporate welfare indeed. Nice.

 

The USPS contract is not exclusive to just FedEx, it involves many other players!

 

So, what exactly were you trying to say?

 

I never said or even implied that it was exclusive to FDX. When taken in context of the post to which I was responding, my point stands.

Now, butt out!