Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has strategically invested in its fulfillment network over the last five years, leasing planes, buying trucks and vans, and contracting pilots and drivers for deliveries. For the most part, Amazon has built its network to operate synergistically with its third-party delivery partners like UPS (NYSE:UPS). But the tech titan’s sending a message that that’s about to change. The superhub is coming Amazon announced...
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Amazon has been steadily growing its logistics operation over the last decade, and it now delivers more than half of all Amazon packages in the US, according to an estimate from Morgan Stanley published on Thursday and reported by CNBC. That’s a staggering increase over the course of the last few years. It means Amazon, which now operates its own freighters and cargo planes, is...
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Amazon have yet again upped their delivery experience with the introduction of predictive tracking for items delivered by Amazon Logistics, their in-house courier service. Whilst Amazon aren’t giving expected arrival times for deliveries, they have added a map showing where the driver is in comparison to your location and how many drop offs they have to do before they get to you. This is superb, Amazon...
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