On May 12, 2014, at 7:30 AM, joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> wrote:
On 5/12/14, 7:07 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
On May 12, 2014, at 6:02 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
On 10/05/2014 22:34, Randy Bush wrote:
imiho think vi hart has it down simply and understandable by a lay person. <http://vihart.com/net-neutrality-in-the-us-now-what/>. my friends in last mile providers disagree. i take that as a good sign.
Vi's analogy is wrong on a subtle but important point. In the analogy, the delivery company needs to get a bunch of new trucks to handle the delivery but as the customer is paying for each delivery instances, the delivery company's costs are covered by increased end-user charges.
Two words nuke your suggestion here: Amazon Prime
Once you build the capacity to reach every delivery point every-day it's maybe not enough to hope that people utilize that facility . decreasing the cost per package requires higher unit volume. The incremental cost of delivering the second package is much lower than the first.
My point is that above, he claims that shipping is per package and not flat-rate. Amazon Prime contradicts that claim. It is flat rate for two-day shipping for almost everything I purchase from Amazon. Owen