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pyotr filipivich

on Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:38:18 -0500 typed in
rec.woodworking the following:
On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 15:55:57 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

Electric Comet on Mon, 22 Jan 2018
11:52:16 -0800 typed in rec.woodworking the following:

who let them ship for free
someone has to pay for the cost to ship
maybe amazon absorbed some of it but usps and others must have been
bullied into absorbing the costs too

Amazon charges $9 a month for "free" shipping.

No, Prime is more than $9 (I think it just went up to $13) but they do
free shipping on orders greater than $50, also.

My lake of clarity. I pay by the year, so It works out to $9 a
month for me, including tax.

They may have cut a deal with UPS/USPS for a discount, but they
would not be the first.

Yes, there are reports that they have a real sweetheart deal with
USPS, subsidized by everyone in the US.

And this is not exactly news.

As I explained to a friend years ago - all you have to do is hired
a couple hundred thousand people, not die, and be able to plunk down
the cash to hire consultants at a $100,000 a shot, and you too can get
all sorts of tax breaks.
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pyotr filipivich
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