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<blockquote data-quote="Flipx99" data-source="post: 7930851" data-attributes="member: 562352"><p>Well, you can look at some of the financial reports of industry leaders and you can see the profit in commodities is far far less than 50%. It's closer to 12%. The profit on a stick of wood at Lowe's ranges from 8-14%. The other problem with steel is that it doesn't take a lot of people to run a mill. Most of it is automated.</p><p></p><p>USPS lost a $3B contract with another government agency because they cannot provide real time tracking. I just bought an amp that was shipped from CA to the east coast. It took 7 days. I did get an estimated delivery date and it did arrive on the date it said, but it didn't give me nice little updates along the way. Necessary, no, but it gives clients a warm fuzzy that they can see their merchandise go across the US. Fedex delivers on Saturday here. I do not find the rates very competitive, but ymmv. I have no doubt in certain circumstances they could be cheaper. You are correct about postal mail (like letters) but not about packages. I have to pick them up from the post office because I live in the sticks. The people who deliver mail are subcontractors and don't deliver packages. Again, that's a ymmv thing.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The local rescue missions due just that. They don't want people hanging around there forever live hungry dogs. It's in their best interest to do this. What city do you live in? I want to show you (based on the budget) just all the activities your government is involved in. And because they try to please so many constituent interest, it's hard to do any of them very well. A popular one around here is trash disposal. There is a subscription based trash removal company that competes head to head in the city. The residents already pay for the government service, why would they pay extra for the private company. Well, the private company doesn't take 3 day weekends for holidays. Oftentimes, people have lots of family over for the holidays generating tons of extra trash. The private company is working that day, so the trash doesn't pile up. Those with the public option have trash in their driveway for over a week after Christmas.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Depends on the product. Disposable goods, absolutely not. But durable goods, like a car, computer, cell phone etc the customer service absolutely matters. Have you ever been in an Apple Store? Tell them that customer service doesn't matter.</p><p></p><p>bolded -- That has yet to play out. I am interested to see what happens if "everyone" does it. Will some give in and go back to the old way? Will it prove in some instances disgruntled customers don't matter? Very curious to see the strategies and the winners and losers.</p><p></p><p>-As for the Papa Johns thing, that is just a public relations blunder. It's okay to lay off people due to increased costs...that's fine. But to make it a public comments is stupid stupid stupid and sets himself up for boycott, etc such that a failure could just as easily be blamed on this PR fiasco as it could increased costs due to ObamaCare.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Flipx99, post: 7930851, member: 562352"] Well, you can look at some of the financial reports of industry leaders and you can see the profit in commodities is far far less than 50%. It's closer to 12%. The profit on a stick of wood at Lowe's ranges from 8-14%. The other problem with steel is that it doesn't take a lot of people to run a mill. Most of it is automated. USPS lost a $3B contract with another government agency because they cannot provide real time tracking. I just bought an amp that was shipped from CA to the east coast. It took 7 days. I did get an estimated delivery date and it did arrive on the date it said, but it didn't give me nice little updates along the way. Necessary, no, but it gives clients a warm fuzzy that they can see their merchandise go across the US. Fedex delivers on Saturday here. I do not find the rates very competitive, but ymmv. I have no doubt in certain circumstances they could be cheaper. You are correct about postal mail (like letters) but not about packages. I have to pick them up from the post office because I live in the sticks. The people who deliver mail are subcontractors and don't deliver packages. Again, that's a ymmv thing. The local rescue missions due just that. They don't want people hanging around there forever live hungry dogs. It's in their best interest to do this. What city do you live in? I want to show you (based on the budget) just all the activities your government is involved in. And because they try to please so many constituent interest, it's hard to do any of them very well. A popular one around here is trash disposal. There is a subscription based trash removal company that competes head to head in the city. The residents already pay for the government service, why would they pay extra for the private company. Well, the private company doesn't take 3 day weekends for holidays. Oftentimes, people have lots of family over for the holidays generating tons of extra trash. The private company is working that day, so the trash doesn't pile up. Those with the public option have trash in their driveway for over a week after Christmas. Depends on the product. Disposable goods, absolutely not. But durable goods, like a car, computer, cell phone etc the customer service absolutely matters. Have you ever been in an Apple Store? Tell them that customer service doesn't matter. bolded -- That has yet to play out. I am interested to see what happens if "everyone" does it. Will some give in and go back to the old way? Will it prove in some instances disgruntled customers don't matter? Very curious to see the strategies and the winners and losers. -As for the Papa Johns thing, that is just a public relations blunder. It's okay to lay off people due to increased costs...that's fine. But to make it a public comments is stupid stupid stupid and sets himself up for boycott, etc such that a failure could just as easily be blamed on this PR fiasco as it could increased costs due to ObamaCare. [/QUOTE]
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