 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | reply to cdru
Re: Seek Alternatives said by cdru:Fedex and UPS are also barred by federal law from creating a first class mail service replacement which would essentially be what they would create if they started handling daily delivery of DVDs as things exist currently. It is true that FedEx and UPS cannot do first class mail service but in order for a delivery service to be classified as such, it would have to be much broader in scope than just delivering DVDs.
Let's say for the sake of argument that FedEx decides that it could make a ton of cash partnering with NetFlix to deliver and have mailed back DVDs and they come to a special deal which starts this service. I don't think that narrowly defined scope of service would qualify as being first class mail.
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| said by pnh102:It is true that FedEx and UPS cannot do first class mail service but in order for a delivery service to be classified as such, it would have to be much broader in scope than just delivering DVDs. Let's say for the sake of argument that FedEx decides that it could make a ton of cash partnering with NetFlix to deliver and have mailed back DVDs and they come to a special deal which starts this service. I don't think that narrowly defined scope of service would qualify as being first class mail. I found an interesting read on the history of the USPS monopoly for first class mail. Read pages 14 onward for information about the Private Express Statutes. It basically defined the monopoly on a "message directed to a specific person or address and recorded in or on a tangible object." There was a variety of exemptions including extremely urgent letters. "Letters were considered to be extremely urgent if they met strict delivery standards or if their postage cost the greater of either twice the going First-Class or "priority mail" rate or at least three dollars."
I think it would be hard to have that a delivery service of 2m parcels a day across the country that fit every criteria of first class mail to not be a first class mail service. The only out that I could really see is charging $3 per letter to make it "urgent". But do you really think Netflix is going to increase their shipment costs from $.78 round trip to $6 just to get Saturday delivery? I didn't think so. |
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pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | said by cdru:I think it would be hard to have that a delivery service of 2m parcels a day across the country that fit every criteria of first class mail to not be a first class mail service. The only out that I could really see is charging $3 per letter to make it "urgent". But do you really think Netflix is going to increase their shipment costs from $.78 round trip to $6 just to get Saturday delivery? I didn't think so. True. There's no way Netflix is going to eat a $3 a pop delivery cost either.
Looks like it is time for them to lobby Congress for a rule change. 
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