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Re:Mercedes Benz and Matternet unveil vans that launch deliv... by vidarh on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @10:10AM (#12443496)
If I had to get to a mailbox to return something, I would refuse to order from that company.
Re:Mercedes Benz and Matternet unveil vans that launch deliv... by gm-conspiracy on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @10:33AM (#12443703)
There is this company called Netflix...
Re:Mercedes Benz and Matternet unveil vans that launch deliv... by vidarh on Friday September 09, 2016 @06:27AM (#12460863)
... which I've ordered from. If I want a disc, I buy it from Amazon. Otherwise I stream. I get that it might have made sense once upon a time, but thankfully those days are long gone.
Re:Mercedes Benz and Matternet unveil vans that launch deliv... by jon-wood on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @11:29AM (#12444188)
They're spinning down the side of their business that requires using the postal service because it's less popular, and less efficient than the side that doesn't.
Re:Mercedes Benz and Matternet unveil vans that launch deliv... by BlickSilly on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @01:05PM (#12445105)
...because they were shipping a digital product via the mail, and a new delivery format arrived. they went from shipping their digital goods physically to shipping their digital goods digitally.

It is a good prediction that we will someday be receiving our newly ordered toothbrush digitally, and have it physically printed in your home, but for now we still need physical goods to move from factory-warehouse-home