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tax revenue. People spend money, that money has sales tax, room tax, etc. Obviously the city does not own the hotels, restaurants, clothes and souvenir stores people will end up in, etc.

You figured it out! You win math! 😀

Which means more ridership (ticket revenue) and more tax revenue going into the area through other means, like hotels.

Surely whatever logistics they use for NFL games can also be used here? How much more of a crowd could they be expecting?

Isn’t that, like, all transit though? If the RV show is in town I wouldn’t expect them to pay for transit either.

But in other events they can figure out how to run it charging 90% less, or if you use Trump math 1000% less?

NJ Transit said this month that train tickets to MetLife Stadium for the World Cup would cost $150 — more than 10 times the normal price

That’s the infuriating part. WTF are they doing?

Let’s not build the torment nexus

Those are definitely words

Those are two very different things, and more than one ticket per month over the course of a year (and those are just the times you get caught) is more than generous.

The thought counts

Was there even thought though?

Clickbait trying to be subtle

I had a package ship UPS out of Hong Kong recently too. Took a while to get out (I honestly thought it was going by boat) but once it did it was pretty quick. I’m guessing there’s a big holiday backup right now.

The lack of mentioning it in the fine print is a pretty valid beef, especially given that this is the Mildly Infuriating community

I think this bit of nuance is important and easy to overlook: these numbers are about profit margins, which doesn’t necessarily translate to market size. Individual grocery stores generally run on thin margins, but Kroger is huge because their stores are EVERYWHERE. Everyone needs to eat. Our world needs energy, and we largely use oil to supply it. Drugs help us live longer. Etc etc etc.

Scientific articles are not nearly as ubiquitous in day to day life. They have have a huge profit margin and still be relatively small because their sales volume is low.

I know they can be scummy, but this is so not an apples to apples comparison.

This is silly.

Hmm I never said that.

This you?

You drive door to door leaving flyers. […] Why do you think municipal or county staff can’t drive

Anyway…

What are you even talking about? Use your words.

You’re talking about what Amazon and USPS can do. They can do it (Amazon not every home in a given area) because they’re equipped to. Saying that the water company should be able to cover a town with flyers because USPS goes door to door is about as logical as saying USPS should fix a water main because the water company does it.

Now, if the law requires something that will always change the calculus but that doesn’t seem to be the case here

Naw, I think “but we have cars” was silly, not clever (funny how you dropped that pretty quickly). I think “but you can get people and a plan immediately while also fixing the problem” is silly, not clever (admittedly places that require certain notices will also have a plan to implement it as required by law, not I’m thinking about wherever OP is which I’m assuming doesn’t have that). I think comparing with organizations that need large coverage for their daily operations (not necessarily 100% of homes in a day, mind you) is silly, not clever.

Feel free to move on.

You can drive from neighborhood to neighborhood, but when you go door to door it’s almost certainly on foot. My parents live in an older neighborhood with mailboxes at the front doors, and unless we had a package they never had the truck on our street. It was always parked a block away while the carrier went on foot going from door to door.

And no, I don’t think the water company would have an army of 50 people ready to do an organized canvas of the town (unlike the Postal Service, which has a roster of dedicated mail carriers)

It’s even easier to respond with

“sorry, it’s a Sunday on a holiday weekend”

“Our carriers are halfway done with their route for the day, we’re not paying them overtime to go back”

“Our sorting system is already done and the trucks are loaded up”

“I haven’t checked my mail for a few days” (as the recipient of that flyer)

My water district has 55,000 customers, many of whom won’t answer their doors thinking it’s a solicitor. Even if they did, you could have dozens of people going door to door and it would still take forever