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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (55089)	5/4/1999 3:29:00 PM
From: Greater Fool	Respond to of 164684

>>Amazon and everybody makes money off of "shipping and handling" charges Ha! ... instead of labeling it "shipping and handling", why not just call it "shipping and more profit"? >> introducing competition at the per-piece basis, with UPS and US mail in the mix, will drive priced down That's a good point. I don't see any reason why in the future the shipping options won't be evaluated separately for each shipment. I didn't realize that the shipping companies attempt to lock up all of the corporation's shipments. You're right, seems to me that change will be inevitable. But even if the customers have no switching costs, there still will be a tidy oligopoly of FedEx, UPS, and USPS. That could remain quite profitable for quite some time.