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I’m so confused. Why are so many people in this thread trying to say this isn’t real, or it couldn’t possibly be that bad, or it’s no big deal companies should just deal with it, or just bring the boxes to the counter, or just rent your own truck and deliver the packages yourself, or whatever other excuse?

Seems like this is just another nail in the coffin of small businesses and another few hundred billion in Amazon’s market cap.

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This. Logistics at scale is like spinning plates. One falls so does the rest, and when you're dealing with hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of packages (which is still a fraction of Amazon's scale) you're not filling up a family van and taking it to retail.

Amazon has the advantage of their own logistics infra, and scale. They earned it.

But to those suggesting "why can't you...?" -- well, you try it.

This is the equivalent of AWS or Azure going down indefinitely for these businesses.

Because most people aren’t large shippers. People go on experience not logic. Welcome to the internet.

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