Originally Posted by
fassy
I think a company like Amazon could make a deal with UPS, Fedex, DHL or whatever.
Originally Posted by
nacho
In Germany you can do Hermes paket for 3,1 EUR, for 6 EUR you can do DHL up to 10 kg. I doubt that you can get the same price here in Sweden.
I can tell you from experience that DHL refuses point blank to deliver to my home address, every time. In all cases the products were sent from other European countries, and the price included home delivery. Nevertheless, DHL wanted me to pick the items up at their nearest distribution center, 80 km away! By complaining vigorously I could get them to deliver to an adress of my choice in the nearest provincial city, where I then had to collect the items. Needless to say, I go to great lengths to avoid ordering anything online in Sweden. I only do so if I can be sure the package will be sent by post. Not that they will deliver to my home, but the nearest post-i-butik is only 2½ km away.
Originally Posted by
nacho
I think Sweden is very backward in a lot of ways.
I'm inclined to agree. I suspect that one reason is that several generations have been brainwashed by socialist governments into believing that Sweden is best at just about everything. People just accept the Swedish way of ding things, assuming that it the right and only way, never wondering whether it can be done better or differently, and never asking themselves whether other countries have found superior solutions to similar problems. The completely idiotic Swedish health care system is the prime example here. (with apologies of going completely OT!).
Johan