shipping shutdown

SHIPPING SHUTDOWN

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Am I still whistling Dixie here? Are any of you at the Running In Circles And Screeching Like Frightened Prison Bitches stage yet? If not, why? This Friday there are reports that Thailand’s flooding has wiped out one quarter of the rice crop. Thailand is, or at least was, a major rice exporter. I think that there are two industries in the country, and both are flooded. Bangkok prostitutes and rice farmers. Hey, nothing wrong with that. If you want two professions that are 101% recession or depression proof I can think of nothing better than sowing seed of one kind or another. Well, arms makers, but that doesn’t really count since you can stockpile weapons and stop buying them for a short time. But you need to eat everyday and sex is about all you think about, even more than food, after about a week or two ( for males- for females studies conducted by my research staff have shown that they fantasize about money at the same frequency as guys do about sex. Which explains why decoupling control of money from only one gender led to the decline of western civilization ). I just reported to you about the Pakistani flooding ( no details on crop impacts but one can usually guess correctly that low lying flatlands are where the crops are grown ). And Texas Toasting should impact cotton, beef, wheat and a dust bowl migration to other more civilized states. Are you panicking? No. You gaze blankly back at me ( just like the kid in the movie “Bad Teacher” in Ms. Squirrels classroom. I don’t need to bring up the movie, other than I want to use it as research for a tax deduction and if I mention it here I can deduct my $1.20. I can’t blame RedBox for raising prices after almost a decade at a buck even. More expensive to deliver the discs. Which, oddly, also ties in with today’s article. Shut up and watch the movie. Not the funniest out there, say like the all time best comedy “Animal House” or “PCU”, perhaps “Ferris Bueller” although I’m not sure how much of that movie is pure nostalgia as that was the movie we saw on the first date, me and Handmaiden Of Lucifer, but funny enough at parts, cute the rest of the time and subtle about their delivered message ).

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When do you start to panic? Apparently never. But I’ll just keep harping on it and one day if you manage to drag your emancipated corpse up to the Bison Compound And Imperial Headquarters Of The Great Basin Greater Co-Prosperity Sphere, I promise I won’t throw you in the stewpot ( I mean, come on, you ain’t very good eating all wasted away and such. Which reminds me that I was sort of a dumbass for having a skinny wife. No, she won’t eat much, but she sure won’t make good eating either. Treasure that lardass, guys. It is money in the bank ) but instead I will conduct a charming and impromptu “told-ya so” dance. Then I’ll feed you to the pigs ( hey! I wonder if that was the pig food in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome? It always bothered me that they had pigs for methane but no farmland to grow pig food in the desert ). I’d like to talk a little bit about the rising shipping costs we are seeing. It won’t change anyone’s mind about whether to panic, but it is another piece of the collapse puzzle. I balanced my checkbook last weekend and thanks to the continued generosity of you loyal minions, I had $250 from Amazon commissions. $200 is savings for the upcoming Bison Underground Lair construction project, and $50 was blow money. And, no, I didn’t spend it on books. I ordered a back-up Lee-Enfield No.4 scope mount for $30, shipping included. I’m a bit embarrassed about that, since my last mount purchase was over ten years ago for Y2K. Waiting ten years to buy a back-up is ridiculous and I should have done it a long time ago ( strangely, the price has stayed about the same ). I’m not blind without my glasses, but with or without them I need a scope so as not to waste ammo. Anyway, I then went to order a bag of 303B brass. A few months ago when I last ordered them they were in the high fifty cents each after shipping. But this time, they wanted 50% shipping ( a $27 bag with $13 shipping!!!!! ). I even looked around a bit off Amazon to make sure I wasn’t being too narrow in my shopping quest, and I didn’t find much better.

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Granted, this is an isolated incident. It is one item. For all I know, the company wants to discontinue 303B production ( seriously? The one and about only thing the Brits ever excelled at manufacturing wise in the last hundred years was the Lee Enfield. We should celebrate, not censor ) so they are jacking up the shipping. Or, they are worried that the Post Office is going Titanic and so they switched over to UPS. I love UPS, but you definitely pay for the privilege of getting a Union driver to deliver ( also, there is the high risk compensation involved as they get vanjacked ). So this could be nothing more than you paying for delivery insurance ( insuring that there will be someone, anyone, to have a delivery fleet left ). But this led me to conclude two things. One, it is cheaper to just buy the complete ammo round rather than the brass. And two, how long before high shipping cost is used to triage diminishing fuel and bankrupted trucking firms? You already pay the majority of a used book in shipping ( the local used book store sells half price paperbacks $3.50 and Amazon shipping is $4 ). How long until most things are like that? It is nothing to panic about, but it is another reason why perhaps you should buy the heavy items now rather than later ( a side note, if you go to order a composting toilet [ the self contained, small unit ] the shipping costs are insane. If you like the brand that Home Depot sells online, they will ship it to your nearest store at a much cheaper ship rate ).

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