On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 10:48:05 UTC-3, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/13/18 9:06 AM, True North wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 09:37:34 UTC-3, John H wrote:
On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 19:48:23 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 19:06:02 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:05:53 -0400,
wrote:

It turns out that the US steel industry shot themselves in the foot by
not adopting new technology back in the 1950s while the rest of the
world was doing it - very similar to what happened to the US auto
industry back in the 1970s.


It did not help the advancement of labor saving technology if they
understood they still needed to employ the same number of people.


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Certainly union agreements didn't help but It was more fundamental
than that:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-05/steel-history-shows-how-america-lost-ground-to-europe

Better, cheaper technology became widely available but US steel
companies didn't invest in it for reasons that are not entirely clear..
The only exception was Nucor that continues to do well, even in the
face of foreign competition.

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Cheaper technologies exist for the distribution of mail - like corner, multiple mail boxes. Who's
fighting it? The unions, because more efficient delivery means fewer mailmen. The same would have
been true of the steel industry, I believe.

Up here a lot of seniors were upset about losing home delivery. Often enough they wouldn't be able to safely make it to a neighbourhood super mail box..especially during the winter. It was one of the election issues a couple years ago that trashed our then Conservative Govt.


Our rural letter carrier says it takes more time to unlock, fill, and
lock the "neighborhood mail box" that serves the five houses on our
little street than it would take to drive the street down and back and
service the individual mail boxes that usually would be near the street
end of the individual driveways. U.S.P.S. management has not been
"stellar" down here for many decades.


Another problem a year or so ago was the problematic locks on those super mail boxes. They would pop open and anyone could get at your mail.