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This whole saga shows us a lot about the institutional shitshow at the base, mechanical level of the economy.

FYI, this is not an anomaly. In Israel, amazon did a deal with the national postal service that gives amazon packages priority. Before that, Aliexpress' free delivery ruled. It's easier in Israel, because there isn't a local amazon to compete with faster shipping.

Long story short, local businesses pay much more, for slower local delivery than global companies shipping internationally. This is on top of de facto exemptions from duties & product regulations.

Israel is a tiny country. Geographically, it's a city state. Local ecommerce is not viable because international is cheaper, faster & has extra advantages.

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> Local ecommerce is not viable because international is cheaper, faster & has extra advantages.

I disagree, some companies in my own country try to claim the same, but when I look at the market, there are a lot of players, a lot of profit being made, it can be done.

In a sense I have a suspicion that this is just some companies gotten lazy and not realising multitude of thing e-commerce provides. People want warranty, a nice fast mobile app in their native language, fast shipping, to support local companies - there's quite a lot a local company could offer. But a customer doesn't want to pay 10x as much and get quarter of that, that should be very clear.

These things aren't absolute.

But, at least in that country, you cannot use the postal service or major delivery services to deliver packages locally for a similar cost and delivery price as internationals... With amazon being the recent, and blatant culprit.

They deal they did with the postal service are not a secret. Neither are delivery times.

Monopolies, and the effect they have on the economy are not newtonian physics. It's not deterministic. Economic structures create prevailing winds, not airtight control over outcomes.

Postal services are a structure. The structure creates a prevailing wind that heavily biases an outcome.

Nationstates have no meaning beyond mechanism to obscure borderization of humans and boderlessness velocity of capital. It would be more correct for me to say I am a Bezosian or I am a Zuckerbergian than I am Canadian.

This is pretty abstract. Nation States do exist in the context of package delivery.

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