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 [...]
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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 [...]
Amazon Ends Ban On FedEx Ground Delivery
A month after notifying third-party sellers not to use FedEx Ground, Amazon has lifted the ban in January … (click to read more) Related: Amazon Blocks Sellers Using [...]
Amazon Blocks Sellers Using FedEx Ground; Now Delivering Half Of Its Own Packages
Amazon notified its third-party sellers to stop using FedEx Ground, the latest shot in a growing battle between the companies … (click to read more) Sellers Caught Off [...]
NY AMAZON WAREHOUSE: Sweatshop Run By Robots
The New York Post details the experiences of an ex-Amazon employee who worked at a Staten Island warehouse run by robots where workers are pushed to exhaustion … (click [...]
FedEx Cuts Ties With Amazon
FedEx has terminated its ground service contract with Amazon, two months after cancelling its air express agreement. The move comes as Amazon builds its own delivery [...]
Amazon Drone Delivery To Start
Amazon announced it will begin using drones to deliver packages within the coming months … (click to read more) [...]
WalMart, Amazon Rush To One-Day Delivery
The two American retailing giants WalMart and Amazon are rushing headlong into one-day delivery but with different strategies. WalMart is planning on using ground shipping [...]
Amazon Seeks End-To-End Distribution That Cuts Out USPS, Carriers
The Motley Fool details Amazon’s master plan to eliminate using the USPS, FedEx and UPS altogether with its own end-to-end distribution system … (click to read [...]
FedEx Issues Statement: Amazon NOT A Major Customer
For unknown reasons, FedEx issued a simple statement on January 29, 2019: Amazon is not a major customer. In the two sentence statement, FedEx states: “Amazon.com, Inc. [...]
Amazon, Ecommerce Hit Hard By USPS 2019 Rate Hikes
The PRC’s approval of USPS shipping rate hikes in January spells trouble for e-commerce companies and major mailers, as double-digit hikes mean package shippers will be [...]