“Amazon delivery has not had to take the time and expense to secure a long-term parking and package sorting location on the island,” Franklin explained in his email. “It requires huge expenses and time to get permanently set up in the islands and maintain a reliable year-round delivery service. The imported off-island Amazon delivery drivers are displacing our local island jobs at both Aeronautical and the Post Office, and they are spending their island-earned paychecks outside the local San Juan Island economy.”
This exactly. Amazon has too long benefited by not being required to play by the same rules as everyone else, from no sales tax in the early years, to proprietary pricing, to competing with 3Ps while hoarding their data, to even this–not being required to have a local (on-island) presence.