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Re: Seek Alternatives said by pnh102: quote:
Netflix already paid $600 million on postage in 2010
That's a lot of postage. Perhaps UPS or FedEx would be willing to make some sort of deal with Netflix to allow them to continue their mail-based business in a similar manner? I was thinking that also, but not quite sure how that would work with respect to price. Off the bat, I would assume that shipping via UPS or FedEx would be more expensive for this type of mailing.
With that said, my employer secured a deal with UPS to get a great deal on our outgoing UPS ground deliveries, which essentially serve as next-day delivery for our customers in our service areas. The deal is so attractive that we're doing about 70% deliveries via UPS as opposed to courier.
May be Netflix can work something like that out, but UPS ground does not deliver on Saturdays AFAIK, so that doesn't remove the immediate problem.
I think the future of Netflix is going to be streaming movies, although the CEO says he expects Netflix to be mailing DVDs for 20 more years. For some reason, I don't see that happening. It's going to have to be streaming, and Movie Studios are going to have to find a common ground between not charging Netflix so much for the licensing, even though they want their $ in the form of DVD sales.
My wife and I have watched about 10 movies from Netflix via streaming, and I have to say it was perfect.
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