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Prime Motivation Club

Series: Letters to the Editor | Story 9

Appreciation for union leadership and workplace improvements cannot mean that every business must therefore subscribe to the union. While willingness to raise standards, offer education and training, and ensure onsite safety are excellent qualities in any business, being manipulated into submitting to formal regulation of those issues is counterproductive.

Evidently passionate, the suggested fix seems more emotionally distraught than well-thought out. It appears surprisingly unwise to spend personal money repeatedly paying for returns. (Reasons for returns will clearly not be an issue of an Amazon error, and ethically shouldn’t fall on the seller!) “Over and over — until Amazon …” may become a large sum for individual union supporters to pay as a means of getting through to powers that be.

Allowing drivers to quite literally waste time on these returns (along with those of whomever else is convinced to participate in said club) seems an unfortunate misuse of the fuel you were previously excited about saving and the pollution you were glad to reduce. Additionally, driving up operating costs increases rates for Prime members, more harmful than beneficial, which simply lacks sound business sense, with customers being essential for success of any business venture.

Time, energy and resources should be spent to cultivate, promote, motivate, develop (you get the idea), and anytime we have deviated to a plan which is meant to destroy, or get a point across in a negative way, it would suit us well to revise a new plan. That short list of issues is enough for now.

 

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