Detroit Amazon Driver Loses It Over Package Volume
From NY Post: A foul-mouthed Amazon delivery driver was caught on a doorbell camera criticizing the customers, claiming they would buy slaves if the tech giant sold them. The [...]
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UPS To Axe 30,000 More Jobs
From CNBC: United Parcel Service on Tuesday announced that it was planning to eliminate an additional 30,000 jobs this year as part of winding down its partnership with [...]
Amazon Testing 30-Minute Deliveries in Philly, Seattle
From PC Magazine: Amazon.com Inc. plans to offer deliveries of hundreds of household items, including some fresh groceries and over-the-counter medicines, within 30 minutes [...]
Amazon Boosts Rural Delivery Service
From CNBC: Amazon is pushing its rapid delivery machine deeper into rural America. The company said it plans to bring same- or next-day delivery to more than 4,000 smaller [...]
Amazon Delivering More Packages One Day or Less
From CNBC: On Monday July 31, the company said it reached a major milestone in its effort to deliver packages in one day or less. Amazon said so far this year it’s [...]
Amazon To Surpass UPS, FedEx As Largest In 2022
From CNBC: Dave Clark, Amazon’s CEO of worldwide consumer, told CNBC on Monday that the company is on track to become the nation’s largest delivery service by the end of [...]
AWS Outage Hits Amazon Deliveries
From Detroit News: An Amazon Web Services outage is wreaking havoc on the e-commerce giant’s delivery operation, preventing drivers from getting routes or packages and [...]
Amazon Offers New Delivery, Warehouse Workers $3,000 Sign-up Bonus
The roles in fulfillment and transportation offer an average starting wage of more than $18 per hour—and up to $22.50 per hour in some locations. The company also provides full-time employees with comprehensive benefits from day one, worth an additional $3.50 per hour. [...]
Amazon Buying Malls, Turning Into Fulfillment Center
Amazon is buying up old malls and converting them into fulfillment centers at a rapid pace, as the company that helped kill malls is now buying them up … (click to read [...]
Amazon Autonomous Delivery Vehicle Roll Out (VIDEO)
Amazon Scout autonomous delivery vehicles are being deployed to more customers in the Atlanta, GA and Franklin, TN metro areas. It was first implemented near Seattle and, [...]
14-Hour Days, No Bathroom Breaks For Amazon Delivery Drivers
From The Guardian: James Meyers worked as a driver for several Amazon delivery service providers in Austin, Texas, for about one year until he quit in October 2020 citing the [...]
Jeff Bezos To Step Down As Amazon CEO
Jeff Bezos, who turned his 1994 book selling start-up into a global economic powerhouse, will step down as Amazon CEO in 2021 … (click to read [...]
Amazon To Pay $61.7 Million Delivery Driver Settlement
From The LA Times: Amazon will pay more than $61.7 million to Flex drivers from whom it withheld the full amount of customer tips to settle a Federal Trade Commission [...]
Amazon Plans 1,000 Warehouses in Suburb Neighborhoods
From Bloomberg: Amazon.com Inc. plans to open 1,000 small delivery hubs in cities and suburbs all over the U.S., according to people familiar with the plans. The facilities, [...]
How Amazon Changed The Postal Service
The Leader of Port Townsend, WA reports that far reaching ways Amazon is changing the Postal Service … (click to read [...]
Amazon Orders Electric Vans
From Reuters: Amazon.com has ordered 40 electric vans from Deutsche Post’s StreetScooter unit for deliveries in the German city of Munich as part of the plan to be carbon [...]