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In reply to the discussion: 'A conspiracy': Alarms sound after postal worker reports removal of sorting machines [View all]scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)44. Amazon is building its own delivery service. Why would they help a competitor?
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/19/21029932/amazon-logistics-delivery-network-fedex-ups-usps
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Amazons new area of domination: its own package delivery
That growth has come with controversy.
By Jason Del Rey Dec 19, 2019
Theres a reason your Amazon deliveries are increasingly showing up in an Amazon-branded van: The companys own delivery network is already monstrous, and growing fast.
The online retail giant announced on Thursday that its Amazon Logistics division was on track to deliver 3.5 billion packages globally in 2019 which accounts for approximately half of all of its worldwide orders, according to a spokesperson. (For comparison, UPS, which was founded 112 years ago, delivered 5.2 billion packages and documents for all of its customers in 2018.)
In the US alone, Amazons delivery network now handles the largest share of its customers orders more than its traditional delivery partners UPS and the United States Postal Service each account for the spokesperson added. That acknowledgment backs up a recent estimate from Morgan Stanley that Amazon Logistics was delivering 46 percent of all Amazon orders in the US, while a source previously told Recode that the US percentage has already hit 50 percent. A spokesperson declined to comment on that figure.
The huge growth of this new business line highlights the rapid pace at which Amazon is maneuvering its way into new corners of its customers lives. It also gives some credence to worries from business leaders, politicians, and activists alike that there are few industries safe from Amazons ambition and reach.
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Additionally, Amazon has begun offering a shipping service dubbed Amazon Shipping to merchants in some areas that would include non-Amazon deliveries as well, putting the company into direct competition with its current big partners like UPS and USPS. In these instances, Amazon would act in many ways like a traditional shipping company, handling everything from picking up orders at a merchants warehouse to executing the final delivery to their customers door. Morgan Stanley estimates that Amazon Logistics could be handling 1.5 billion to 3.5 billion non-Amazon packages by 2022, adding at least $7 billion in revenue to Amazons overall business. (my bold)
That growth has come with controversy.
By Jason Del Rey Dec 19, 2019
Theres a reason your Amazon deliveries are increasingly showing up in an Amazon-branded van: The companys own delivery network is already monstrous, and growing fast.
The online retail giant announced on Thursday that its Amazon Logistics division was on track to deliver 3.5 billion packages globally in 2019 which accounts for approximately half of all of its worldwide orders, according to a spokesperson. (For comparison, UPS, which was founded 112 years ago, delivered 5.2 billion packages and documents for all of its customers in 2018.)
In the US alone, Amazons delivery network now handles the largest share of its customers orders more than its traditional delivery partners UPS and the United States Postal Service each account for the spokesperson added. That acknowledgment backs up a recent estimate from Morgan Stanley that Amazon Logistics was delivering 46 percent of all Amazon orders in the US, while a source previously told Recode that the US percentage has already hit 50 percent. A spokesperson declined to comment on that figure.
The huge growth of this new business line highlights the rapid pace at which Amazon is maneuvering its way into new corners of its customers lives. It also gives some credence to worries from business leaders, politicians, and activists alike that there are few industries safe from Amazons ambition and reach.
<snip>
Additionally, Amazon has begun offering a shipping service dubbed Amazon Shipping to merchants in some areas that would include non-Amazon deliveries as well, putting the company into direct competition with its current big partners like UPS and USPS. In these instances, Amazon would act in many ways like a traditional shipping company, handling everything from picking up orders at a merchants warehouse to executing the final delivery to their customers door. Morgan Stanley estimates that Amazon Logistics could be handling 1.5 billion to 3.5 billion non-Amazon packages by 2022, adding at least $7 billion in revenue to Amazons overall business. (my bold)
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'A conspiracy': Alarms sound after postal worker reports removal of sorting machines [View all]
LiberalArkie
Aug 2020
OP
A Discworld sorting machine was so efficient that letters got delivered before they were written.
tclambert
Aug 2020
#58
Yeah, I guess they think that's where the ad money is right now or something. n/t
RKP5637
Aug 2020
#97
I'm serious, too. Every single large business that does business in the United States uses the USPS.
tclambert
Aug 2020
#102
It's treasonous behavior to get the dictator in to cede some type power, benefits, control to Russia
RKP5637
Aug 2020
#5
Exactly! I'm surprised there is not more screaming about this bullshit!!! It highlights
RKP5637
Aug 2020
#11
No matter what they do, just about, there are no repercussions for the most part. The founders
RKP5637
Aug 2020
#16
Wow you called it. All that "living breathing document" bs is out the window.
ResistantAmerican17
Aug 2020
#23
And who can forget Moscow Mitch. Dean of the senate my ass. Traitor.
ResistantAmerican17
Aug 2020
#41
Not so sure "Jeff Bezos hates Donald Trump". There's a lot of bluster and feints among thieves.
erronis
Aug 2020
#17
Just about an hour ago I was thinking the same. Amazon may be able to step in here and help out
RKP5637
Aug 2020
#18
I mostly have good feeling about Bezos too, but I've never been rewarded in life
Mike 03
Aug 2020
#51
Amazon is building its own delivery service. Why would they help a competitor?
scarletwoman
Aug 2020
#44
Amazon will likely hire a contractor for those remote deliveries - it just may not be the USPS.
scarletwoman
Aug 2020
#64
You're very welcome - I learned new stuff, too! I've posted an additional paragraph below:
scarletwoman
Aug 2020
#71
Delivery in the city yes.. But they do not check your mailbox to see if you have anything outgoing?
LiberalArkie
Aug 2020
#73
But we are just removing the old ones so that the new faster machines can be installed later in
LiberalArkie
Aug 2020
#32
postal workers know that is tampering and would result in some very bad consequences
yellowdogintexas
Aug 2020
#91
they could target ballots from Dem-rich zip codes and likely would invent some
LymphocyteLover
Aug 2020
#105
Why aren't delays to Medication for Veterans biting this douchebag in the ass?
ResistantAmerican17
Aug 2020
#24
How about having to hire more people to sort, thus run up that trust fund about and the price
LiberalArkie
Aug 2020
#45
When I track an Amazon package coming via USPS, it seems to slow down at the district
LiberalArkie
Aug 2020
#33
I have had a package go back and forth between the Distribution Center and Annex 3 or for times.
LiberalArkie
Aug 2020
#48
It isn't that big of a deal as they just about always be the date listed on Amazon
LiberalArkie
Aug 2020
#57
Write to your local paper. Write to the various news anchors & hosts on viewer comment lines.
Hekate
Aug 2020
#29
Yeah, that's what I'm wondering all the time. You'd think the older GOP would be more...
LAS14
Aug 2020
#40
ersnt senate seat is in trouble...willing to bet that's why they started in IA
Thekaspervote
Aug 2020
#34
Does anyone know what rationale DeJoy has come up with for this craziness?????? nt
LAS14
Aug 2020
#38
We need hundreds and hundreds of drive-by ballot boxes set up in the following places:
LaMouffette
Aug 2020
#43
Isn't there ANYTHING we can do about this criminal activity????????????
Ferrets are Cool
Aug 2020
#69
I mailed a first class letter to my sister last Tuesday (2020-08-04), and...
AmyStrange
Aug 2020
#80
Weakening it for the election, to diminish public confidence and profitability, for privatization
bucolic_frolic
Aug 2020
#81
Almost sounds like selling off the technology for imminent privatization
bucolic_frolic
Aug 2020
#82
Some states, like VA, are printing scannable codes on mail-in ballots to track them out and in.
JudyM
Aug 2020
#115
Election interference is a federal crime. Why hasn't the Idiot's lackey installed @USPSbeen charged?
onetexan
Aug 2020
#90
Treachery with intent to subvert a national election is treason under the Alien&Sedition Act.
ancianita
Aug 2020
#114
The corruption is so obvious & out iin the open! There must be something that can be done
Illumination
Aug 2020
#117