In Remote Alaska, Meal Planning Is Everything
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#2For comparison, food costs in Nunavut
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#3> Amazon likely loses lots of money by shipping heavy food items to Bush Alaska,
Probably not.
U.S. Mail to Bush Alaska is heavily subsidized, through a program called "bypass mail".
In the past some people have seriously abused this program (e.g. mailing enough concrete blocks to construct an entire building).
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#4For comparison, food costs in Nunavut https://youtu.be/gbm8_m4txKY
That's the difference between living in the nations food basket, and a remote town 1500 km into the inaccessible and barren tundra.
What's odd is anyone's expectation that they would pay similar prices.
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#5For comparison, food costs in Nunavut https://youtu.be/gbm8_m4txKY
That's the difference between living in the nations food basket, and a remote town 1500 km into the inaccessible and barren tundra. What's odd is anyone's expectation that they would pay similar prices.
Also odd that Amazon can be cheaper than a government subsidized program.
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#6> Amazon likely loses lots of money by shipping heavy food items to Bush Alaska, Probably not. U.S. Mail to Bush Alaska is heavily subsidized, through a program called "bypass mail". In the past some people have seriously abused this program (e.g. mailing enough concrete blocks to construct an entire building).
Found an old associated press article about that:
>Sam Krogstad of Bush Consolidators, which specializes in sending construction materials via the mail, says the Postal Service’s losses are partly self-inflicted because the postal system pays 10 times as much to send the building materials by air freight as it charges Krogstad to mail them.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's the difference between living in the nations food basket, and a remote town 1500 km into the inaccessible and barren tundra. What's odd is anyone's expectation that they would pay similar prices.
Also odd that Amazon can be cheaper than a government subsidized program.
Amazon ended it over a year ago (YouTube video is from 3 years ago)
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#8I know there are two Costco stores in Alaska now.
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#9>Although this was a gourmet meal, in many ways it was just as great as the store-bought hot dogs and macaroni salad we had eaten together hundreds of times before; the quality of a meal is really a reflection of the company you share it with as well as the long process and coordination it takes to get everything on the table.
This is such a strange phrase to me. I'm in the UK and it is always the case that processed, mass manufactured food is looked down upon. Store-bought hot dogs are a guilty pleasure or something you resort to as a time saving meal. Certainly not something that anyone would call great. Is the US attitude to this generally the opposite?
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#10>Although this was a gourmet meal, in many ways it was just as great as the store-bought hot dogs and macaroni salad we had eaten together hundreds of times before; the quality of a meal is really a reflection of the company you share it with as well as the long process and coordination it takes to get everything on the table. This is such a strange phrase to me. I'm in the UK and it is always the case that processed…
The sentence is confusingly phrased. The "store-bought hot dogs and macaroni salad" were in many ways just as great as this "gourmet meal".