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So I sold a 47 " x 39 " Picasso poster on wood , no frame, no glass (remember these two) . It weighs 12 pounds. I go in to UPS. They don't have box big enough , so I order one box for $66. They want $30 to prepare it, and $350 to ship it. Two years ago it would have been $85 to ship it. Etsy got $50 for the sell. I paid $54 for the poster at auction. So $500 was not enough and you never know how much shipping has increased since last time you mailed something. Imagine if it was glass framed? That would triple the weight. I brought $270 with me and could only afford to buy the box.

The crappy thing is that companies are not trying to get product in. They want to order at additional costs the products , make you wait and charge you prems for it. Other words they are taking advantage of what is going on. You can't order just one box from a company online.

Cost in two years for shipping is up 75% . transitory inflation my ass. This highest price I have ever paid to ship an item. I paid $600 to ship a Corvette from Miami to Louisville in 2001 .

How has economy not collapsed at these prices? Also with Biden's $600 rule , they will count $500 as income even though I lost money for negative income.

It is only going to get higher. We need to recall this idiot and have new elections. We need to make liberal /socialist policy hate speech.

US economy is going to collapse soon. At the least , I see riots over prices. I think you will have to make min wage $50 an hour or how can they afford to ship anything?

Look at meat prices , almost as bad as shipping.

I recently quit my job and haven't got another one just yet because I had COVID.

I was a part time order picker. I liked doing the job and the team I worked with. It was the company I couldn't work with.

I'm not going to name the company because I want to put it behind me.

I was a part time employee, so at first I was getting 20 hours per week, but after a month they kept scaling my hours back and I was lucky to get 15 hours a given week.

I put up with it for months and months. Asking my manager for more hours, working past schedule when needed, covering employees on their vacation. Also, most of the other part time employees quit like I did and I often took on their duties, like cleaning the lot, sweeping the warehouse, and sorting through the trash and separating the recyclables.

I was a loyal and hard working employee, but they didn't want to give me more hours, and I was flat ass broke all the time.

AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE STOLE MY GLASSES THERE!!. I left my glasses in the office and someone locked me out of it, and I never got them back. They were $300 Ray Ban prescription glasses. I had my driver's permit and was in the process of getting my license and I can't drive without my glasses. So on top of being broke, I have to stress about glasses.

I have my 2 week notice to look for a full time job. But my Supervisor (great friend of mine) asked if I wanted a full time position there, and I accepted. I worked my 2 weeks thinking I was going to work there full time.

But on the 16th day of my 2 week notice, the manager refused to give me the hours until Spring. Knowing how this company does their employees they would have given the position to someone else, and business slows down over the winter, so I'd be broke for months.

So when my Supervisor gave me the Manager's decision, I snuck out mid shift and quit right there.

I don't care if I was wrong or dumb, I chose a hill that I was willing to die on. I WAS FUCKING DONE WITH THAT COMPANY!!