Amazon Prime Day Starts Today (3 days)

@hilde45  Your points are well taken. Thank you. Nevertheless, I still give Amazon credit for its prompt shipping through Prime membership. Perhaps, as customers, we can choose Amazon Day Delivery to help reduce the carbon footprint associated with consumption and shipping emissions. By comparison, consider the USPS, with its strong labor protections and pension system—the difference in delivery service quality is night and day.  Aside from slow delivery time, lost mails (both domestic & international), wrong address delivery, etc, you name it.  

@jsd52756 A "diatribe" as I understand it is bitter and acrimonious. My comment gave a list of my reservations. I’m not telling anyone else what to do. People will either read my comments and reflect with their conscience, or wave it aside as inconvenient or call it a name like diatribe.

@lanx0003 Thanks. No one is perfect but there are some practices which bother me. I think companies can get better with some social pressure -- we’d not have a 40 hour workweek if people didn’t talk about what’s wrong. I know that commenting on a forum dedicated to the consumption of products is a bad move on my part. No one likes to get stung by a gadfly.

@hilde45 

Thanks for the well researched, concise 'white paper'.  

Yes, Amazon has many 'sins'.  It seems every hyper-successful American company is, eventually, hyper-unethical. 

I have had concerns with Amazon since they did away with the 'Smile' program and supported He Who Shall Not Be Named.

Unfortunately, I am not clear where to get many items: It is a lesser-of-evils choice. 

The only redeeming feature is free returns on most items, which I take full advantage of these days.  

On the Audio front, I just found that Upscale Audio has an Amazon store.  Not certain that encourages me to do business w UA.