Amazon to leave Maryland, stop deliveries!!!

LightRoasted

If I may ...
For your consideration ...



It's one thing to charge a sales tax, ya know, on sales. It's another to add an extra fixed charge on top of that. The impetus for charging a sales tax for online sales was because people figured out that buying online, instead of a brick and mortar store, was a good way to avoid the sales tax. This stupid idea also appears to discriminate against every other company that sells online. Don't see this going anywhere. Since it also violates the equal protection law clause of the Constitution.
 

NorthBeachPerso

Honorary SMIB
Most on-line retailers are charging sales tax now. Apparently they have to if they have a facility in the state. That's why I was sort of miffed when Cabela's (now bAss Pro) opened up in Linthicum.

As you can see, I'm somewhat ambivalent about bAss Pro. I haven't figured out how Cabela's took it over yet now most of the product is the Redhead brand and not Cabela's, which was/is of much higher quality. Kind of like how BBT took over Sun Trust but now the procedures are all old Sun Trust ones.
 

SamSpade

Well-Known Member
PREMO Member
This does of course, make a serious case for not buying any SMALL purchase - which I do OFTEN on Amazon.

Hey does anyone have an Amazon driver who insists on honking their horn repeatedly after they make a delivery?
 

stgislander

Well-Known Member
PREMO Member
Our UPS driver told us that the company will be cutting way back on the number of Amazon packages they deliver.
 

Toxick

Splat
Hey does anyone have an Amazon driver who insists on honking their horn repeatedly after they make a delivery?

Mine don't even bother to knock the door or ring the bell. They drop it off and then there's a trail of smoke going down my street.


9 times out of 10 Alexa tells me my package has been delivered.
The other 10% of the time, my doorbell's motion detector tells me. THEN Alexa tells me.
 

LightRoasted

If I may ...
For your consideration ...


UPS announced that the other day. Here's the company line:


Have to say, I do not see strength in any of those two women. What I see is smugness and, "Here me roar God damnit, or else."

Who throws away 11% of their business? 11% of total revenue of $91 Billion still equates to better than $10 Billion. So what if it's not the most profitable, it's still profitable. Where are they going to make up that additional $10+ billion? And the UPS idiots, "In January 2024, UPS laid off 12,000 workers, aiming to save US$1bn as part of its ongoing efficiency drive." WHAF? They dump 12,000 employees to save $1 Billion, then turn around and end a profitable relationship that contributed over $10 Billion in revenue. If I were a shareholder, I'd sue for financial mismanagement.
 

NorthBeachPerso

Honorary SMIB
For your consideration ...





Have to say, I do not see strength in any of those two women. What I see is smugness and, "Here me roar God damnit, or else."

Who throws away 11% of their business? 11% of total revenue of $91 Billion still equates to better than $10 Billion. So what if it's not the most profitable, it's still profitable. Where are they going to make up that additional $10+ billion? And the UPS idiots, "In January 2024, UPS laid off 12,000 workers, aiming to save US$1bn as part of its ongoing efficiency drive." WHAF? They dump 12,000 employees to save $1 Billion, then turn around and end a profitable relationship that contributed over $10 Billion in revenue. If I were a shareholder, I'd sue for financial mismanagement.
Maybe it's being done, for whatever reason, to put some sort of squeeze on Amazon.

As for me, FedEx could go away and I'd wave goodbye. They mess up more of my stuff in a month or two than UPS or the Post Office does in years.
 

stgislander

Well-Known Member
PREMO Member
For your consideration ...





Have to say, I do not see strength in any of those two women. What I see is smugness and, "Here me roar God damnit, or else."

Who throws away 11% of their business? 11% of total revenue of $91 Billion still equates to better than $10 Billion. So what if it's not the most profitable, it's still profitable. Where are they going to make up that additional $10+ billion? And the UPS idiots, "In January 2024, UPS laid off 12,000 workers, aiming to save US$1bn as part of its ongoing efficiency drive." WHAF? They dump 12,000 employees to save $1 Billion, then turn around and end a profitable relationship that contributed over $10 Billion in revenue. If I were a shareholder, I'd sue for financial mismanagement.
Our driver said layoffs were all warehouse workers, and that he'd only be delivering to my neighborhood 3 days/week.
 
Top