Source: Hacker News
Article note: It certainly seems to be a "The capitalists are ripping apart working systems so the number keeps going up" situation.
I think the most shocking bit is how uncorrelated with distance or difficulty it all is, I regularly have stuff get from China to a nearby sorting center faster than it gets from the sorting center to me, and see large fragile items like TVs that seem to be being sold for less than I'd expect shipping to cost... but also have letters take months, or packages disappear.
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