Unless the block is full and yours happens to be amongst the lower fees *no matter what fee you actually attached* and *no matter what miners would be willing to include your transaction for*.
Now you are arguing that the market is broken because you can never be in the top 1500+ bidders (1500+ txs that go through)?
That's impossible.
No. I'm saying that with limited size blocks, there is no fee which guarantees you a place in the next block since others may be bidding higher than you. Even you have a fee of $5, if everyone else is at $5.01, you're out of luck, even if a miner really wanted your $5.
OK, what is "the fee"? I want numbers.
It would depend on what others are paying at a certain time. It's not fixed in time. That much is obvious.
Wait, I thought we were comparing to parcel delivery services. Which one does that?