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It's a lie, there's no such thing as free shipping. Local buyers indirectly pay for distant buyers' shipping. It hurts communities by discouraging local commerce. eBay, Amazon, etc. urge their sellers to offer free shipping because of this.

It's a lie, there's no such thing as free shipping. Local buyers indirectly pay for distant buyers' shipping. It hurts communities by discouraging local commerce. eBay, Amazon, etc. urge their sellers to offer free shipping because of this.

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9 times out of ten if you look at a products multiple shipping options you will see the same thing for sale from a more honest seller that is a cheaper product price but has shipping and it ends up being the same price

I will always buy from that person

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That's a good practice, I will even pay extra to an independent seller just so Bezos doesn't get my money.

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Oh, he still gets his pound of flesh from the seller

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You're right, the only way is to stay away from Amazon completely.

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I also heard there was no Santa Clause.

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Yeah I agree it's obvious but people still love their Amazon Prime Free Shipping.

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Amazon also made a deal with the US Post Office where Amazon funnels all it's heavy bulk and awkward size packages through the postal system. Ever noticed the minority woman Amazon driver in the Mercedes van pretty much just delivers bubble envelopes while the Mail carrier in his own car is unloading the set of weights you ordered?

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I hate Amazon. It was built on anticompetition, now they are huge and influence policy in their favor, e.g. sweetheart deal with USPS as you say. And they benefit hugely from the lockdown policy.

Everything they do is just another monopolistic anticompetitive effort. Free Shipping, Amazon Basics, Amazon Fresh, AWS.

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Yeah I've noticed that, black people delivering packages in large mercedes vans.