The Post Offices exclusivity deal with Royal Mail should have ended as soon as the Conservatives sold off more of the family silver Royal Mail was privatised.
The sooner that Post Offices can sell postage options from all couriers the better and the more chance it will have of surviving. As much as I dislike Amazon and its practices, this is great news for the PO.
Not such good news for those with Royal Mail shares.
Amazonās moving into the territory of delivery firms in the USA - shipping anything for anyone, not just Amazon orders. Those companies should be worried. Royal Mail shareholders are a brave kind anyway given that the company is saddled with having to provide universal coverage and make unprofitable deliveries to remote locations. Itās a millstone round their necks and an obvious reason why even the USA hasnāt privatised their national mail serviceā¦ but I digress.
I imagine Amazonās growing logistics wing will one day be spun off when the already overdue break up of the company happens.
Nooooo my single free share I got given shall be doooomed
āAlexa roll me jointā
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āAlexa, Does my hand always look like thisā
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āAlexa, add Pringles to my basketā
āAlexa, my company doesnāt pay me enough to live on, they work me to death, I canāt pee when I want to, taxpayers have to subsidise my wage so that I donāt starve to death and I barely feel aliveā¦ please give me some drugs so that I can have a temporary escapeā
Star Trek fans might think that Amazon are just using weed as a stop gap until they can give their workers ketracel-white to ensure worker loyalty and docility.
I canāt help but think this is going to be really good money maker even after 2nd or 3rd generation.
Only available in the US 
Thanks, I could see it being useful for people who want to check on their home while away, actually. Itās either that or an internal camera system. I personally wouldnāt want either.
While the world looks confused at Astro the real money will be made by this. Hey, Disney!
If this is delivered right itāll be a have to have for anyone with and echo & kids in the house.
There are so many possibilities for this such as security, monitoring pets or ill people, checking you turned the stove off, playing when drunk etc etc 
Thatās why I said 2nd or 3rd gen as by then it will have many new possibilities not thought of yet.
To be honest that looks sort of like a solution looking for a problem, a bit like home 3d Printers. I canāt see that many people actually wanting or needing one other than as a gimmick
I donāt know but my neighbour is elderly and his wife bed ridden so he canāt go out unless nurses come around which is expensive. With this he could potentially go to the shop or garden in a relaxed manner more. Like I said a few gens later it may do more.
Besides who hasnāt wanted one of these since seeing Rocky buy a similar looking one
Thatās the gimmick angle, I think the number of people who actually need one is pretty small. I can imagine them gathering dust in the back of a cupboard in a few years
Donāt underestimate the amount of people who buy expensive things that gather dust in the corner, thinking exercise equipment. Mentioning dust, if they made it a vacuum as well it would suddenly be much more practical. Add in arms in a couple gens and suddenly it is practical.
Iād bet a huge amount of people would buy it simply to say they had one anyhow.
We get it, Gary! You want to buy one! 
I could actually buy you one with my gains in my single Amazon share, lmao.
nah I donāt want one but do think it will make Amazon a lot of money when they have a few gens of mods. People buy stupid s&Ā£@ all the time.
I thought this was an April fools but realised its September