RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qxudeqrdbv6676vzjssrhllo/post/3mils4ssca22l
Amazon adding fuel surcharge for Canadian, U.S. sellers starting April 17
>Amazon is applying a fuel surcharge to fulfillment fees for sellers in Canada and the U.S., a spokesperson for the e-commerce giant confirmed to CBC News on Thursday. >The 3.5 per cent surcharge will first apply to those using the Fulfillment by Amazon program, through which sellers can outsource packing and shipping to the company’s fulfillment warehouses. This surcharge, meant for those with an online Amazon storefront operating in the United States and Canada, will be imposed beginning on April 17. >Sellers who use the company’s Multi-Channel Fulfillment program — which can be used by those who have a non-Amazon sales channel, like a personal website — will see a surcharge starting on May 2. >“Elevated costs in fuel and logistics have increased the cost of operating across the industry," the spokesperson said in a statement, saying the company has “absorbed these increases” so far. >“But similar to other major carriers, when costs remain elevated we implement temporary surcharges to partially recover these costs,” the spokesperson wrote. "We remain committed to our selling partners’ success and to maintaining broad selection and low prices for customers.” >A number of major companies who offer consumer services have added fuel surcharges to their base rate in the weeks since the beginning of a global energy crisis that began with the U.S. and Israel’s attack on Iran. The selling stuff is a loss leader thing for Amazon they make their money off of AWS.
I am feeling pretty good about myself
I stopped using the Google for everything (minus youtube) years ago. I had moved to Ecosia, I believe it is a US based charity project to plant trees in the desert and stuff. I know it took search things from, I wanna say; Google, Bing, and maybe Yahoo to get search results. I am sure the ads, that my pihole setup could not block, they showed where from Google but it is not like I intentionally clicked them. I got onto the self hosting train fairly hard because of the BoycottUS movement and I finally got searXNG working and set up as my default search engine on my iPad. Sure it is pulling results from US search engines but I am not paying for them (via my eyeballs on ads) and it is another US service I get to remove from the list of things to boycott!
Italy denies the US military use of its air bases to attack Iran
Report: "Spain closes airspace to US planes taking part in war on Iran"
Spain has expanded its earlier restrictions on US access to jointly operated bases:
“We don’t authorise either the use of military bases or the use of airspace for actions related to the war in Iran."
Spain says it refuses to back "a war launched unilaterally & against international law”.
Report: "Spain closes airspace to US planes taking part in war on Iran"
Spain has expanded its earlier restrictions on US access to jointly operated bases:
“We don’t authorise either the use of military bases or the use of airspace for actions related to the war in Iran."
Spain says it refuses to back "a war launched unilaterally & against international law”.