I figured out how to get my food with NO delivery fee: I get off my fat ass and get it myself. Novel approach, I know.
DoorDash is a hell of a lot cheaper than catching a DUI charge tho
Yeah, but the DUI also buys you 3 meals a day for 6 months or so.
Me who is physically disabled and can’t leave my house: 👁️👄👁️
I’m happy that you are physically able, that you have places within walking distance to pick the food up from, or if not that you own a vehicle and are not vision impaired or afflicted with some other ailment that would make driving impossible. I hope you reflect on how fortunate you are.
I do, all the time.
My point was that most people are able to procure their own food without paying exorbitant fees for it; in their case, I consider it lazy and wasteful. That’s also my opinion, and people are free to apply their own judgement.
It was a completely reasonable take and everyone understood what you meant.
Only on lemmy would someone try to paint an exploitative middleman like UberEats as a noble service for those unable to journey to the store.
There are actually services that do that and they don’t charge a 30% markup. That actually seems even more exploitative and you’d think the other commenter would be enraged at Uber.
Such is the price for a popular top-level comment. I suffer so that those who must always be the contrarian can satisfy their unrelenting urges. Today, it is my internet cross to bear.
How exactly did I attempt to paint Uber Eats (who is absolutely an exploitative middleperson) as a “noble service?”
I’m happy that you are physically able, that you have places within walking distance to pick the food up from, or if not that you own a vehicle and are not vision impaired or afflicted with some other ailment that would make driving impossible
The implication being that thankfully for UberEats people who aren’t physically able, don’t have places within walking distance, don’t own a vehicle, or are vision impaired or afflicted with some other ailment that makes driving impossible, they can get their food delivered.
UberEats is a cancer and honestly, everyone I’ve known who’s disabled or on a fixed income in some way couldn’t afford the insane markup.
That’s not at all what I implied or meant but thank you for assuming I’m the worst person ever for pushing back against someone being proud they can just get off their ass and pick up food.
Yes, Uber Eats is a cancer but I’ve known people to count down to the cents so their account won’t be overdrawn so that they can order one hot meal delivered. Yes I absolutely think it is in the monetization plans of all the delivery apps to take advantage of people in that situation, I was just trying to point out “get off your ass and pick it up” isn’t a viable option for everyone. Also, not everyone is the best at math or managing their money.
I get off my fat ass
But the entire point of having it delivered is so you can keep sitting on it.
It is not that easy for everyone. I for example can’t afford a car. And restaurants aren’t exactly around the corner. So if i want to get food like that, i have to have it delivered.
What about public transport?
5 euros is cheaper for delivery than 15 for a train ticket. Its not that big of a deal honestly. I don’t know the pricing in america but its not to bad where i live. The food itself is becoming way to expensive though.
I only order food a few times a year so its no problem.
It’s significantly different in America. I think doordash has different payment structures in Europe bcos of laws whereas, in most of America, drivers are paid next to nothing. It’s like tipping culture with American service workers, except way worse.
So like, inflated prices (set by the restaurant and optional, but often done to make up for doordash’s cut) + delivery fee (pocketed by doordash of course!) + ridiculous tip bcos now I gotta pay this driver’s livable wage.
Door dash really is an unsustainable business. It’s probably gonna tank in the next 5 years, I’d bet.
If I’m bothering to go out anyway I’ll just get ingredients from the store and do it myself.
From one extreme to the next. Interesting.
That’s just for cases where I’m bothering to go grocery shopping anyway. Sometimes I’m just too tired or lazy and then I’m ordering food.
An even better idea.
I feel so too, you get more for the same money. But getting stuff delivered has its place in situations where you for some reason don’t have the energy.
USPS should not focus on profitability and fuck Uber and the gig economy.
yes! it is a SERVICE Americans already pay for in taxes, the need to make a profit on it makes no sense.
No we don’t. The USPS is not tax funded, it is self funded by shipping costs and stamp sales.
I have been bamboozled, swore it was
Even worse, it was made “unprofitable” by being required to have a ridiculously high standard of pension coverage, which I believe just ended or ends soon.
Now they will swing hard in the other direction. Heaven forbid you have TOO MUCH pension coverage as inflation spikes.
wow… no wonder we will never get free healthcare in this country
Things are fucked from the top down. It’s by design, It’s a long listen but worth checking out How Conservatism Won by Robert Evans. He lays out in a clear concise way “how a consortium of rich failsons got together to fund a network of right wing think tanks and shift American culture in a fun new direction. (note: it was not actually fun at all).” They’ve been very successful and those think tanks are now pipelines used to funnel ideological purists into powerful positions like our current Supreme Court.
It’s not even a conspiracy, it’s all easily verifiable. These people do not share our American values. They do not value freedoms (speech, press, religion, etc) the same way that many of us do. They want a return to the gilded age with them as the robber barons and landed gentry and everyone else as a permanent, toiling underclass.
I’d be very fine with it being tax funded instead of being funded by stamps and parcel metering. We might have much less shit mail as a result. It was an actual part of this government, not a corporation like now, before 1970, when the Reorg Act went into effect. Look before 1970 then USPS workers were not allowed to collectively bargain but that still could have been achieved with the a different outcome in 1970.
I would be very fine with tax funding because as a service the work they do facilitates other sectors’ viabilities. There might also be more accountability to help the workers.
This is a perfect illustration of why we should not privatize essential services.
We probably shouldn’t, but this is a terrible example why.
Thankfully food delivery isn’t essential, therefore it should be privatized (preferably by a restaurant that delivers to places hundreds of miles away by plane)
“Essential” is your criteria? To be clear, you’re saying that anything that’s an actual human need, should be state run?
Economies of scale and different expectations of timely delivery… Both of those prices are much more than I deal with here in the NL though
Yes. Everyone in the US tells me that people get so much more money there than here in Germany because of the taxes and everything. And then you have to pay $30 for a simple food delivery?
It’s part of the propaganda. Richest country in the world, they say, but you pay a lot more for basically everything because there’s few government regulations keeping prices in check, and a number of things that are done by the government in other countries are run by for profit corporations here (healthcare).
Although, $10.50 for the mail is pretty pricey. That’s no letter that they’re sending. I run an Etsy shop and frequently send stuff in padded envelopes through the post office, and those cost me like $4 to send across the country.
Don’t forget the 1000x American markup for anything health related.
Yes, that was also what I thought. But people assured me that I should just get a tech job and the employer will then pay all my health costs
The real trick, I’ve heard, is to work remotely for a U.S. company. Get all the benefits of a civilized country but they pay you the bigger salaries(if you work in a field that isn’t 100% rat-fucked yet).
I thought they were taking the piss with the $30, is that for real?
I used to live in Morocco and I paid about $3 a month for free deliveries with their local equivalent.
And somehow USPS can still pay their couriers more.
Shhh, Musk might hear you and destroy it.
Don’t worry they already have a plan
the postal system is significantly more efficient
One is not designed to generate profit. Nor should it be for that exact reason.
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I’m sure the food is cheaper if you ordered it more than 24h beforehand
If there was a service like this, I’d probably buy there every day. I can plan 1-2 days ahead what I’d like to eat, but more is harder. This would be perfect.
one of the food delivery service I used tried to offer this, but that is extremely limited in availability and does not cover my address so I never get to use it.
there are like subscription services that deliver partially prepared meals to your door
I’m offering budget food delivery. 3 day delivery guaranteed.
If most of that went to the driver I would be OK with it. I never use those services, they exploit workers
I only do when my daughter is staying somewhere and doesn’t have food to eat. That’s rare, but it has happened a few times.
One of these is a government service and subsidized.
Don’t worry, they are already trying to get rid of the USPS so we can be charged ridiculous amounts for mail delivery.
Don’t worry, it’s been just two weeks. Elon and his minions are coming for it.
A lot of USPS offices are in prime locations in many cities. The real estate alone is worth hundreds of billions, at least.
Government vs private.
It’s the same with healthcare believe it or not.
USPS is the most underappreciated thing in the world. In the shittiest areas I’ve ever lived it’s still been fairly reliable. In a nice area, forget about it, perfect.
Look at that money on the table! Of course we should privatize the USPS!
(/s of course)
Post takes days, weeks, even months. Food delivery is minutes, and point-to-point.
