Total sense
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So I don't really understand why you are paying so much for food?
Looking at the local delivery app, I just now chose a "big Mac mcmenue" containing a big Mac, fries and a 0.5l drink. This would cost me 10,89€, let's say 13€ with a very generous tip.At this moment it seems 13€ are worth $13,48. What are you ordering that costs $30?
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Cooking, the lost art.
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The post office looks cheap because they get paid to deliver those 300 pieces of junk per week.
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Economies of scale and different expectations of timely delivery... Both of those prices are much more than I deal with here in the NL though
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What are you ordering that costs more than double of that?
Two Big Mac Menus? And some chicken nuggets.
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I figured out how to get my food with NO delivery fee: I get off my fat ass and get it myself. Novel approach, I know.
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I don't care if my mail is still warm when they put it in my mailbox.
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What are you ordering that costs more than double of that?
Two Big Mac Menus? And some chicken nuggets.
So people in the USA just eat a lot?
Another stereotype confirmed I guess
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I know some in Europe as well. A colleague from work regularly eats a large menu with an additional burger and chicken nuggets for lunch.
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USPS should not focus on profitability and fuck Uber and the gig economy.
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How would they complain that everything is way too expensive nowadays if they didn't?
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And guess which one gets paid more.
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And yet, it won't keep you from ordering food.
The issue is that there's still demand for it at that price.
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It's part of the propaganda. Richest country in the world, they say, but you pay a lot more for basically everything because there's few government regulations keeping prices in check, and a number of things that are done by the government in other countries are run by for profit corporations here (healthcare).
Although, $10.50 for the mail is pretty pricey. That's no letter that they're sending. I run an Etsy shop and frequently send stuff in padded envelopes through the post office, and those cost me like $4 to send across the country.
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And yet, it won't keep you from ordering food.
The issue is that there's still demand for it at that price.
You know that product pitch, "if you sell just one to every person in the world you'll be a millionaire." Well, Uber eats is a similar approach, but they can sell a lot of food deliveries until the food arrives cold or it's the wrong order or the myriad problems food deliveries encounter.
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Normal people have a stocked fridge and are not constantly drunk.
If being drunk seriously affects your shopping schedule, you have an alcohol problem.
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How about, you know, a grocery store?
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I'd rather "waste" some money instead of my time picking it up ... or even worse, shopping and cooking.
