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.
@randahl
This still bothers you? 🤣
I mean fair, but your plan needs to account for the sender as well as the delivery.
If you have 5 delivery services locally then perhaps you should setup a local service where it can deliver for all the others, that way you’d only have 6 delivery services.
@taatm @randahl
Imagine you live on a one lane, one way street, one that's a little narrow, but has parking on one side... So you have 4 courier companies doing 1 or 2 trips a day.
... obviously every dickhead trying to drive through decides to blast their fucking car horn outside your goddamn window every single time a courier van stops for even a second... So now the couriers are all in a rush and can't wait the 15 seconds it takes for me to walk to the front door, so they ring the bell and run back to the truck, and by the time I get to the door I just have either a "lmao you have to come to our shop on the other side of town now" card or worse "we'll try again", so now there's even more couriers and even more people blasting their horns because they decided their absolutely life critical time crunch journey absolutely had to come past my loungeroom window and sure, they could have got the bus/tram/metro but a car is faster so i gotta honk because the car is faster faster car honk honk courier bad THERE IS NOTHING ON THIS STREET BESIDES MORE OF THIS STREET WHY DO YOU THINK THIS IS A SHORTCUT
@EndlessMason @randahl
I’m very much in support of this initiative to lower the delivery vans.
I’m just being the arsehole for shits and giggles.
Randahl Fink
The Animal and the Machine
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