Professor Mark J. Perry's Blog for Economics and Finance
Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University near Washington, D.C. In addition, he holds an MBA degree in finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. In addition to a faculty appointment at the University of Michigan-Flint, Perry is also a visiting scholar at The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
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Here in the Seattle area we can get food delivery from Amazon Fresh. Would it not be ironic to have your beer, candy, doughnuts and coffee delivered to a 7-11 for pick-up?
Imagining what a life with the post office might look like.
Very interesting. You don't even need to rent a PO Box in this case.
These would be great service at grocery stores. Get an email on your smartphone with the location and pin to your pickup and go pick it up.
I wonder how they handle package size?
also.. my experience with Amazon is that they are not P.O. Box "friendly" and will not ship many items to a P.O. Box - even items that are small....
anyone else have problems getting Amazon (and Buy.com) to deliver to P.O. Boxes?
larry-
if you select USPS for shipping, they generally will ship to a po box or post office.
ups and fedex are forbidden by law to do so.
Great way for Amazon to try to further decrease their costs and increase convenience.
I am waiting for when you enter your amazon order at the little kiosk and you open the door and there it is. But at home.
"while they grab a hot dog instead of waiting for the UPS man at home."
Not sure I see the value here, unless you are homeless. Maybe I'm missing something. The UPS (or FedEx, or USPS) delivery person still has to deliver the packages whether it's to the customer's home or to an alternate location. The only advantage might be that 7-Eleven might get an earlier delivery since it's a business. But unless Scotty's "beaming" Amazon packages to the 7-Eleven, what's the difference in swinging by the convenience store to get your product once it's delivered or just getting it when it's delivered to your house?
One advantage could be if a signature is required for delivery, and nobody will be home when the package arrives. Or if you live in area where packages are stolen.
much of the USPS revenue comes from bulk-mail service.
they send them for a fraction of first class mail
bulk mail likes USPS because if there is an occupied building.. it likely has a person who can be sold something via bulk mail.
email is fast replacing some of this but the reality is that the census department maintains demographic data per physical address..down to the carrier route level...
from that data - market people target a demographic.
it's a big business....
once USPS starts to get away from physical address deliveries... the market folks will leave ... a vicious circle that will leave USPS delivering personal mail....
I'm listening to the Republicans on this and many are NOT saying abandon USPS but... reform it...to operate more like a business.. which, in theory it has already done...
there are neighborhood markets everywhere... there are Walmarts everywhere.. with space for everything from banks to subways...why not USPS ?
oh.. and people with P.O. Boxes pay for them..they are not free.
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