Re: So Called Fulfillment Centres

It can be difficult to understand until you realise that a) not everything sold by Amazon is shipped from an Amazon warehouse, sometimes they come direct from manufacturer, or from a third party, and b) they can't possibly have all goods in all warehouses all the time, they'll have a mix of stock throughout their warehouses. If what you want isn't all in the same place they'll batch as much as possible then ship the balance of your items from whichever warehouse has the most stock...

Re: Any chance of a significant increase in the taxes they pay?

dear oh dear, where do I start......

"Because they expect to hire UK workers who can read and write, from schools funded by UK tax payers."

as opposed to hiring UK workers that got their education from where? More likely they they will employ a bunch of migrant European workers that pay as little as they can into the UK economy, send the wages back home to Poland or Czech rep. further depriving the UK economy,

"They expect those workers to get free medical care, rather than having to pay $1000/month as they do for their workers in the US."

what a crock of shit...... you cant compare how things are done in one country to another. their is far to many variables. you think that an international company should pay for private medical care for all of its workers throughout the world, just because that’s the accepted practice in one of them. Its an established practice that in the UK the whole workforce relies on the NHS for healthcare unless you pay into a private medical service....

"They expect UK police to guard their premises."

no they don’t. They expect the local police force to investigate any break-ins or robberies etc, but they will have to employ or contract private security to guard the premises... like every other company in the UK.

"They expect the UK's armed forces to stop bands of guerrilla pirates sweeping out of the hills and raiding their stores (not applicable in Scotland)"

I presume you are just being facetious here... I expect the whole of the uk to be guarded by the armed forces (including Scotland) against marauding invaders to our sovereign soil...

"They expect roads and streeet signs and other infrastructure to deliver their goods."

I presume the cost of deliveries that they pay contractors to deliver goods for them covers what the couriers have to pay in road fund licence and other taxes like everyone else does that uses the roads to cover the cost of maintain the roads...

"As I explained to the man that wanted to collect the council tax - I may live in this house but I'm legally incorporated in Narnia. So unless you send a talking lion around I'm not paying"

Narnia? talking lions? and along with the rest of your drivel... it makes me wonder if you are allowed to handle anything sharper than a box of crayon....