On 10/1/2021 11:23 AM, Sean Donelan wrote:
In the old days, postal services used to charge the recipient of a
letter to deliver the letter. Then stamps were invented, and postal
services charged the sender of the letter, and the recipent got free
delivery.
Now there is free-shipping, and pre-paid return envelopes for DVDs.
Of course, the shipping isn't really "Free." Its built into the cost
of goods sold.
There is no universal, fixed, unchangable way of allocating business
costs.
True. But when the sender has already paid the stamp to their courier to
deliver the bits on their leg of the journey, and the recipient has
already paid a stamp to deliver the bits on their leg of the journey,
what case does the recipient's courier have to demand additional payment
from the sender (lest the package get lost)? The stamp has already been
paid. TWICE! Withholding service until additional payments are made just
smells like extortion.
