On 5/12/14, 7:07 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > On May 12, 2014, at 6:02 AM, Nick Hilliard <n...@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. > Owen >
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