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Title: Amazon can now deliver half of its own packages
Post by: rcjordan on December 14, 2019, 07:32:58 PM
https://www.techspot.com/news/83195-amazon-can-now-deliver-half-own-packages.html

I saw this firsthand on a recent trip to Florida. Amazon semis running up & down I-95 and the secondary roads were crawling with small delivery vans.
Title: Re: Amazon can now deliver half of its own packages
Post by: littleman on December 14, 2019, 08:04:04 PM
The final step is increasingly contracted drivers working out of their own cars -- very similar to Uber.
Title: Re: Amazon can now deliver half of its own packages
Post by: rcjordan on December 19, 2019, 03:56:28 PM
Amazon to deliver 3.5 billion packages as it employs 75,000 drivers - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-package-delivery-business-growth-2019-12
Title: Re: Amazon can now deliver half of its own packages
Post by: Mackin USA on December 20, 2019, 01:09:42 PM
FYI...........
Title: Re: Amazon can now deliver half of its own packages
Post by: Travoli on December 20, 2019, 08:01:18 PM
Read a recommendation today for Walmart to buy Fedex to combat AMZ. or Shopify/FedEx merger, again to combat AMZ.
Title: Re: Amazon can now deliver half of its own packages
Post by: ergophobe on December 20, 2019, 08:48:53 PM
>>chicken and egg from Amazon.

OMG. Thank you! That made me day and got a big laugh from the wife too. Can't believe it took 24 years of Amazon deliveries before i heard that one
Title: Re: Amazon can now deliver half of its own packages
Post by: rcjordan on December 21, 2019, 12:29:28 AM
>Walmart to buy

like they did Jet.com?