this is why i sold my company shipping specialty food items, even the other shippers went off the deep end over the years. i started shipping with ups in 2000, it cost me $3.10 to send a 1 lb. box to a business or $4.20 to send it to a residence. fast forward to 2021, that same box now cost me an average of $13.70 to send to a residence with my getting 30% off the normal ground rates. how the fuck do you convince people who are just ordering a few small items worth $15 to pay the same amount to ship?!? i saw my small orders drop and my big orders increase, however, with the big orders increasing, i had to offer more discounts, and the labor costs went up on so many orders because packing 90 different items with 30 frozen food products in multiple boxes took forever. so, i said fuck it, cashed in at the peak when the industry said it would be growing by 500% in the coming decade, and 4 months after i sold, the entire industry i was in collapsed and i laughed to myself how at least i was given the foresight to know when to get out before it all fell apart. now my company has been re-wolf twice since i sold it, because nobody left in the industry i was i has a fucking clue what theyre doing.
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