Mastodawn

In my neighborhood, I often see parcel delivery trucks from 5 different transport companies wasting energy to drive to the same homes on the same day.

This is unregulated capitalism.

Then comes trash day, and 1 company arrives with 1 garbage truck and empties all the trash cans in 1 go.

This is regulated capitalism.

The municipality decided only 1 company could win the garbage truck service job. They offer up the job every couple of years, 1 company wins, and we all save CO2 emissions.

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Gordon J Holtslander Dec 8

@randahl CUPW the postal union of Canada Post argued it could/should do last mile delivery - getting the package to the final customer. So companies don't race to the bottom in competing for home delivery
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@pinhman @randahl

What a brilliant idea, get rid of ten delivery trucks going down every street everyday and give everyone access to community mail boxes for secure delivery of parcels rather than just tossing them on the doorstep.