{"id":70967,"date":"2019-04-03T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70967"},"modified":"2019-05-21T06:55:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T11:55:06","slug":"unexpected-part-mclviii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70967","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected, Part MCLVIII"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When Saint Paul opted for Tony-Soprano-style trash collection, they used a &#8220;formula&#8221; more or less like the Five Families used to divvy up racketeering in New York and New Jersey; each of the trash haulers got a slice of the city more or less equal to their market share. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This meant there was no &#8220;need&#8221; to compete for customers &#8211; and also no benefit in competing for customers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some small trash haulers just pulled out of Saint Paul without any further ado.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Others?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Call Ken Berquist and Son trash hauling. The call transfers over to Waste Management. Another St. Paul hauler bought out by a national chain?: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZcaRMhwoII\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZcaRMhwoII<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FredMelo, Reporter (@FrederickMelo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrederickMelo\/status\/1113057115873165312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually, Saint Paul is going to have three trash haulers &#8211; BFI, Waste Management and maybe Aspen.   They will have monopolies in their territories, costs will rise, customer service will eventually worsen&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;oh, wait.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70037\">Who said &#8220;eventually?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Saint Paul opted for Tony-Soprano-style trash collection, they used a &#8220;formula&#8221; more or less like the Five Families used to divvy up racketeering in New York and New Jersey; each of the trash haulers got a slice of the city more or less equal to their market share. This meant there was no &#8220;need&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[409],"class_list":["post-70967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul","tag-unexpected"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70968,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70967\/revisions\/70968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}