Amazon.com confesses its risks

Jordan Hayes jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com
Thu Jan 6 10:54:18 PST 2000



> UPS on the other hand ...

I heard recently that part of the reason UPS went public was that they were losing a lot of money on these small packages that they deliver for online shopping. It costs them far more than the $3.95 to deliver your Amazon purchases; they make a lot of it up on the $14.95 overnight letter, but still ...

/jordan



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