I figured out how to get my food with NO delivery fee: I get off my fat ass and get it myself. Novel approach, I know.
DoorDash is a hell of a lot cheaper than catching a DUI charge tho
Novel approach, I know.
In digest form, I presume?
It is not that easy for everyone. I for example can’t afford a car. And restaurants aren’t exactly around the corner. So if i want to get food like that, i have to have it delivered.
What about public transport?
5 euros is cheaper for delivery than 15 for a train ticket. Its not that big of a deal honestly. I don’t know the pricing in america but its not to bad where i live. The food itself is becoming way to expensive though.
I only order food a few times a year so its no problem.
It’s significantly different in America. I think doordash has different payment structures in Europe bcos of laws whereas, in most of America, drivers are paid next to nothing. It’s like tipping culture with American service workers, except way worse.
So like, inflated prices (set by the restaurant and optional, but often done to make up for doordash’s cut) + delivery fee (pocketed by doordash of course!) + ridiculous tip bcos now I gotta pay this driver’s livable wage.
Door dash really is an unsustainable business. It’s probably gonna tank in the next 5 years, I’d bet.
I’m happy that you are physically able, that you have places within walking distance to pick the food up from, or if not that you own a vehicle and are not vision impaired or afflicted with some other ailment that would make driving impossible. I hope you reflect on how fortunate you are.
I do, all the time.
My point was that most people are able to procure their own food without paying exorbitant fees for it; in their case, I consider it lazy and wasteful. That’s also my opinion, and people are free to apply their own judgement.
Jesus christ. When you piss does it come out like a corkscrew?
If I’m bothering to go out anyway I’ll just get ingredients from the store and do it myself.
From one extreme to the next. Interesting.
That’s just for cases where I’m bothering to go grocery shopping anyway. Sometimes I’m just too tired or lazy and then I’m ordering food.
An even better idea.
I feel so too, you get more for the same money. But getting stuff delivered has its place in situations where you for some reason don’t have the energy.
USPS should not focus on profitability and fuck Uber and the gig economy.
yes! it is a SERVICE Americans already pay for in taxes, the need to make a profit on it makes no sense.
No we don’t. The USPS is not tax funded, it is self funded by shipping costs and stamp sales.
I have been bamboozled, swore it was
Even worse, it was made “unprofitable” by being required to have a ridiculously high standard of pension coverage, which I believe just ended or ends soon.
Now they will swing hard in the other direction. Heaven forbid you have TOO MUCH pension coverage as inflation spikes.
wow… no wonder we will never get free healthcare in this country
I’d be very fine with it being tax funded instead of being funded by stamps and parcel metering. We might have much less shit mail as a result. It was an actual part of this government, not a corporation like now, before 1970, when the Reorg Act went into effect. Look before 1970 then USPS workers were not allowed to collectively bargain but that still could have been achieved with the a different outcome in 1970.
I would be very fine with tax funding because as a service the work they do facilitates other sectors’ viabilities. There might also be more accountability to help the workers.
This is a perfect illustration of why we should not privatize essential services.
We probably shouldn’t, but this is a terrible example why.
“Essential” is your criteria? To be clear, you’re saying that anything that’s an actual human need, should be state run?
The mail is, yes.
And somehow USPS can still pay their couriers more.
Shhh, Musk might hear you and destroy it.
Don’t worry they already have a plan
One is not designed to generate profit. Nor should it be for that exact reason.
If most of that went to the driver I would be OK with it. I never use those services, they exploit workers
I only do when my daughter is staying somewhere and doesn’t have food to eat. That’s rare, but it has happened a few times.
USPS is the most underappreciated thing in the world. In the shittiest areas I’ve ever lived it’s still been fairly reliable. In a nice area, forget about it, perfect.
Government vs private.
It’s the same with healthcare believe it or not.
the economic ignorance in this thread is astounding
I don’t care if my mail is still warm when they put it in my mailbox.
Look at that money on the table! Of course we should privatize the USPS!
(/s of course)
Post takes days, weeks, even months. Food delivery is minutes, and point-to-point.
How much is same-day courier service though?
Not just same day, same hour. That 1/3 cost comes with a 50x delay.
Today we are learning about economies of scale, kids!
See the giant bag? He’s got multiple orders in it.
Not as efficient as driving to every mailbox in a row, to be sure.
But it also doesn’t cost Uber probably more than 25% of what they charge for an order, to pay the delivery driver.
I think that if food delivery was treated how my last postal package was treated, then all food would be arriving as a soup, or maybe as a goulash.
