Here the usps will not do dirt roads. I have lived in this house 51 years and that's always been the policy here. And yes its well over a mile to get to a street.
Amazon overtakes US Postal Service as largest parcel carrier
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Amazon has their own delivery service? This is a new thing for me lol. I have seen their tractor trailers but never any delivery trucks. But then again I’ve never used Amazon so I don’t know much about them. Most of my neighbors Amazon packages get delivered from FedEx or UPS sometimes DHL. Maybe this is those random vans I see driving around with only delivery vehicle written on the side lol.
Amazon's delivery fleet is all over the metropolitan areas of Virginia. Surprised they aren't in the Roanoke valley yet. See video below for examples of their vans.
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We have one of their warehouses here. I’ve just never seen one of these vans. I’m surprised too.
Amazon failed us
Somewhere in here I said that Amazon was now delivering direct to our home. Even in the middle of the night in less than 24 hours.
Must have been some expansion in their delivery area and maybe a new distribution point.
Well after a few screwups by their delivery people even though other Amazon delivery people always got our deliveries to the right house. Its not rocket science we are clearly in every mapping service known to mankind, Google Maps, Apple Maps etc, except maybe Amazon's own proprietary system? Got me.
Our address, and I assume our community of a couple thousand homes has been taken off one day delivery and also no more "Amazon Fresh" grocery products.
So we are 100% back to USPS. Good news is we do have free Walmart delivery however I find their service so much less refined than Amazon branded and "Whole Foods" products at least of the ones we purchase are superior to Walmarts "Great Value" products.
Somewhere in here I said that Amazon was now delivering direct to our home. Even in the middle of the night in less than 24 hours.
Must have been some expansion in their delivery area and maybe a new distribution point.
Well after a few screwups by their delivery people even though other Amazon delivery people always got our deliveries to the right house. Its not rocket science we are clearly in every mapping service known to mankind, Google Maps, Apple Maps etc, except maybe Amazon's own proprietary system? Got me.
Our address, and I assume our community of a couple thousand homes has been taken off one day delivery and also no more "Amazon Fresh" grocery products.
So we are 100% back to USPS. Good news is we do have free Walmart delivery however I find their service so much less refined than Amazon branded and "Whole Foods" products at least of the ones we purchase are superior to Walmarts "Great Value" products.
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USPS would have zero funding issues if they didn’t get slammed with having to pay the costs of all overseas mailings for free due to our broken reciprocity agreement.
The agreement would only work if we send as many packages overseas as overseas sends to us.
As for Amazon they are doing so great they are in their 4th or 5th round of layoffs
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/01/28/amazon-layoffs-anti-bureaucracy-ai.html
About 30000 in the last 3 months, Meta and other tech are also laying off more.
Yes exactly. China can ship stuff here cheaper than I can mail to my own city.
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We only get Amazon delivery especially the 4 am deliveries
Been that way for years and great as well.
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I think that dirt cheap foreign E- packet joke is going away.... 6 light bulbs from China for $1 .... my cost, probably $35
What lots of folks don’t understand is if we eliminate things like the post office all sorts of immense hidden costs will suddenly fall on private industry or right back on citizens.
Wisconsins educational system adjacent attempts to eliminate bussing and its desire to eliminate all public schools via atrophy due to ma property taxes has also been a total failure of increasing costs at every turn.
Making it so every parent picks up kids results in making a 15 minute process into a multi hour one with millions of dollars of costs to modify the surrounding plot to support a queue of cars, tons of overtime and extra personelle, and an abysmal safety record compared to busses.
I have warned folks that all of these public entities have resources freely used by private entities and the public many times for free that if eliminated will actually slam massive costs into other buckets making it actually more expensive to cancel.
Tons of systems are like this and belong left in the public sphere, water being one of those things.
That $$$ likely doesn’t go where you think, no laws have changed and the reciprocity deficit in 2025 was still truly massive
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Maybe they will be first in line to acquire the USPS when it goes under.
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Dumb dumb Artificial Intelligence zombies keep parroting A. I.
All companies have lots of bloat with people doing very little.
Bobbi in Indian can do jobs for 25% of what Americans getting paid (total compensation package).
Online bill pay is the main cause.
USPS actually impressed me this week.... Igniter for our oven went out, found an OEM one for $30 on Amazon but "shipped and sold by" a 3rd party seller. Order placed Sunday, USPS initially said next Monday for delivery, it came Thursday!
I celebrated by making a pizza in my now functioning oven.
I celebrated by making a pizza in my now functioning oven.
It just goes to show how well Amazon is doing delivering their own packages.
Still USPS is #2 and delivers far more packages than #3 UPS and #4 FedEx
Still USPS is #2 and delivers far more packages than #3 UPS and #4 FedEx
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