…what happens to my Netflix???
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netflix doesnt even want to mail you dvds anymore
Netflix? You mean you don’t support your local Mom & Pop video rental store? For shame.
Or the cost of mailed DVD’s will increase greatly, as they’ll be sent UPS Ground.
FedEx – the same way all those tea-baggeer anti-gubment cranks use the “free market” to send their Mother’s Day cards.
Aren’t you a reporter? What is this, yahoo answers?
It’s a doomsday paradigm created by CompuServ, Mindspring Prodigy, and AOL that was forgotten about during the Y2K kerfuffle.
USPS should double the price of postage. Fuck Netflix.
At dinner last night with a friend who works for the USPS in DC, I asked about the impending shutdown. He thinks it’s much more likely mail delivery goes to 4 or 5 days per week, rather than a total shutdown. And streaming is a much bigger risk to the USPS than the shutdown of the USPS is to Netflix. Netflix is the USPS bread and butter, so the folks in DC are going postal over ways to keep Netflix in the mailstream.
They won’t shut down, you’re crying wolf again. they’ll lay off workers, close branches, maybe stop Saturday delivery and MOST IMPORTANTLY, cut pensions and benefits. After they break the union that is.
You’ll be forced to use BitTorrent or the streaming option, just like thousands of others did in 2010.
The government should subsidize the postal service. They have zillions of dollars to drop bombs and kill people in countries most of us will never see. If they can do that, they can deliver the goddamn mail.
Fuck.
You’ll pay three times as much to get it via UPS and Fed Ex. Yaaaaaaaay privatization.
@13 While they slash healthcare benefits.
You’re going to wish you had Korea’s Starcraft 2 infrastructure to stream.
The return of the rental store or more widely available high speed internet capable of streaming (not coming to me anytime in the next 10 years): which is more likely? Neither? Yeah, thanks free market/zero government infrastructure.
Perhaps Mr. Constant can look forward to a resurgence in interest in books. Now I’m off to read by whale oil light in my grass shack.
The Free Market will provide a solution, for it is fair and just and invisible and loving, like Jesus.
You have to drive to Tacoma to pick up your disc.