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by PedroBatista 1831 days ago
My question is: Do people REALLY care about these drivers?

Because I get the feeling that "Yeah that sucks, Amazon should do something about it.." is generally followed by "Where's my package? I ordered it yesterday, where's my f*$#ing package?!"

This IS a government problem, it takes more than a few tweets to make a behemoth like Amazon to play ball and people generally only do what's in their self-interest, again where are the politicians?
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yepthatsreality 1831 days ago
My take away is no because the same outlets that cover Amazon’s indiscretions also usually turn around and deliver Amazon Prime deal offerings that provide affiliate income. The negative reporting is balanced out by affiliate needs and the consumer’s want for a convenience they don’t really need (2-day shipping). Why do most people claim they need 2-day shopping? Because they didn’t have it before and they can have it. It has nothing to actually do with physical need.

Look at US electronics related news sites today for a plastering of these affiliate ads. Then instead of clicking the deal link, do a search for negative news about Amazon to seeing the ironic morals.

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Clubber 1831 days ago
>again where are the politicians

I suspect many of their campaigns were partially funded by Amazon.

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/amazon-com/totals?id=D00002...

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/amazon-com/lobbying?id=D000...

$12M in 2020. Politicians aren't very expensive and the ROI is incredible.

I see the Amazon shills work fast. Do they make you use piss jugs in the office too?

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Merem 1831 days ago
They would benefit from what I care about at least. Though, not sure the situation here is the same as in the US. Basically, I ordered seven items off Amazon (shipped by them, non-prime) earlier this month (despite their bloated website with terrible UI which mostly keeps me away). Told them to ship them together but they split it into four separate packages which arrived one day after another. So that's one way to unnecessarily increase the workload.

(Another annoying thing is that it went to four different neighbours but that's a separate issue.)

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