Well one is a service and one is a business so…
Post takes days, weeks, even months. Food delivery is minutes, and point-to-point.
And yet you still keep ordering.
Well I deleted my Uber account ages ago so, no.
Oh that was more of a royal you instead of the singular
One of these is a government service and subsidized.
Government vs private.
It’s the same with healthcare believe it or not.
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.
Sometimes, people really want their taco order to ride on its own private taxi.
the economic ignorance in this thread is astounding
One is a service paid for with tax money, the other a for-profit business.
Wonder if the postal service could be for profit somehow, seems like a lost opportunityUPS and FedEx cost the same though.
They don’t unless you have a good contract with them and even then it’s dependent on zones and package size.
Fun fact: USPS acknowledges that our US territories are domestic while UPS and FedEx treat them as international. So its a little more of a chore and cost to ship to Puerto Rico and the like through anyone but USPS from the 50 states.
In North America, USPS and Canada Post both are solely self funded. They are not (ordinarily) funded through tax money. USPS has had bailouts, but that’s not really different from a for profit company, sadly.
Crazy, our postal office is tax funded
It isn’t really.
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.
A lot of it is about latency too. You’re paying to have someone go get it right now and take it to you right now. Post services pick up stuff daily and get it there over the course of a week or so depending on where exactly it’s going. If you were paying someone to come to you, pick it up, drive it straight to where it’s going, well, it’d be faster, but cost a ton more.
I mean, the one on the left side is subsidized?
Even if it is, private companies cost the same
No, ironically the one on the right was running at a loss for ages. If you were the only driver in a town, you could get UberEats to pay you to deliver food to yourself.
It used to be, but it isn’t anymore.
It’s not
If most of that went to the driver I would be OK with it. I never use those services, they exploit workers
I honesty don’t understand how they are still a service. Who pays for that?
From personal experience living with a roommate that makes good money… People that can’t cook, but have good money.
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.
