On May 12, 2014, at 7:30 AM, joel jaeggli <joe...@bogus.com> wrote: > 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.
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
