So about 10 days ago on Valentine's Day I recently placed an eBay order for $20 worth of MTG cards for my EDH / Commander decks and they haven't come in the mail like they were supposed to. At first I thought it had to do with the recent snowstorms that tore through most of the United States when it turns out that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy was to blame aside from holiday shipping delays and has now threatened to slow down first-class mail. What he doesn't realize is that he's hurting a lot of small businesses or in this case Local Game Stores (LGSs) who are needing an e-commerce presence whether it's eBay, Etsy, or Crystal Commerce to deliver card singles and other products to people's homes to compete against not just Amazon but online vendors like Card Kingdom, Channel Fireball, Star City Games, and even Sports and More.
This is especially bad at a time when most people aren't able to go to their Local Game Store since they've been stuck in quarantine for nearly a year due to the ongoing pandemic by being forced to play Arena online or give up their gaming hobbies for good. I'm guessing the goal is to destroy the USPS so that it can be dismantled especially with what happened with mail-in voter ballots last year just so that UPS and FedEx can make massive profits at our expense. Sounds to me like this could be a last ditch effort to save Brick-and-Mortar Retail with how much money e-Commerce businesses like Amazon have been making and the USPS probably feels as though Brick-and-Mortal Retail and e-Commerce can't co-exist when one business model is making more than the other. President Biden can't simply fire Louis DeJoy since only the USPS Governing Board has authority to do so.
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
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This is especially bad at a time when most people aren't able to go to their Local Game Store since they've been stuck in quarantine for nearly a year due to the ongoing pandemic by being forced to play Arena online or give up their gaming hobbies for good. I'm guessing the goal is to destroy the USPS so that it can be dismantled especially with what happened with mail-in voter ballots last year just so that UPS and FedEx can make massive profits at our expense. Sounds to me like this could be a last ditch effort to save Brick-and-Mortar Retail with how much money e-Commerce businesses like Amazon have been making and the USPS probably feels as though Brick-and-Mortal Retail and e-Commerce can't co-exist when one business model is making more than the other. President Biden can't simply fire Louis DeJoy since only the USPS Governing Board has authority to do so.
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta