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Old 08-01-2016, 12:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Krewat
Actually, third-party sellers on Amazon also do a lot of business on eBay - the seller probably sent it out using their Amazon seller account. A practice, I'm sure, that Amazon will get a whiff of and sqaush it pretty quick
doubtful, they would have to run it through amazon and pay more in fees than ebay. Just someone drop shipping. I do it all the time
 
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On two occasions items sent by Amazon have not been delivered to my home after the routing tells me they have left my local USPS office. The second time I went to the USPS and asked what had happened. They knew the day and time it had left there, but I never got it. (My mail is delivered to an outdoor cluster of USPS boxes, with individual locked compartments.) I asked to speak to the mailman for that day, knowing it couldn't be my regular lady. They refused to even look to see who it was. They told me that "These things happen" and that if I called Amazon they would resend it free. So no harm done, right? And we keep subsidizing them, getting rates raised when their mail volume is low and when it is high.
 
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You think that is bad- look at my industry - magazine fulfillment- We MUST sort the via a USPS approved program that cost about 12 thousand a year to get the required files. Then we take a file and pre-sort it in to the way the carrier walks his route. Then we have the computer sort time cost to add on. Large files of a few hundred thousand do take time to sort and code. You may think the zip code is 9 digits but it has an extra 4 characters you do not see and is in the bar code. A first class letter for 47 cents gets handled by approx 9 people in the USPS - a magazine average cost is about $1.29 & gets handled by approximately 3 people. Where is the justice in that? All said we still have the best mail delivery system in the world and at the lowest cost. Our foreign non-delivery complaints are 20 to 30 times higher than USA non delivery complaints. FedEx and other airfreight companies got started to give an option for faster delivery, but look at the cost of an overnight or even a 3 day letter with them. The good old USA still is the BEST place in the world to live and have the freedoms we have.
 
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Old 08-01-2016, 04:14 PM
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Notice they'll deliver to your house for free but a box at the post office costs money lol
 
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