Increased competition - increased customer choice
The usual accusation against cartels is of price-fixing: coöperating in gouging the customer whilst pretending to be in competition.
Courier companies have their own variant: a conspiracy of incompetence and contempt. None of them provide anything resembling a decent service; none of them employ people or (presumably) provide a working culture that gives a flying fuck about even the barest hint of customer service. Choice: shit:A or turd:B.
Today's case in point is Amtrak. Nothing unusual at all; just another driver who couldn't be arsed to get the box out of the van and just slipped the card through the door without even ringing the bell.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ramtops rang their office: the droid at the other end couldn't even be bothered to argue and just told us that we can pick up at 5:30 this afternoon.
For context, the delivery is a 1u rack server, so a little awkward to carry, but not exactly back-breaking.
Bastard fucktard arsewits, the lot of them.
Courier companies have their own variant: a conspiracy of incompetence and contempt. None of them provide anything resembling a decent service; none of them employ people or (presumably) provide a working culture that gives a flying fuck about even the barest hint of customer service. Choice: shit:A or turd:B.
Today's case in point is Amtrak. Nothing unusual at all; just another driver who couldn't be arsed to get the box out of the van and just slipped the card through the door without even ringing the bell.
ramtops rang their office: the droid at the other end couldn't even be bothered to argue and just told us that we can pick up at 5:30 this afternoon.For context, the delivery is a 1u rack server, so a little awkward to carry, but not exactly back-breaking.
Bastard fucktard arsewits, the lot of them.