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Amazon is now shipping packages for the US Postal Service and starting to roll out “logistics as a service” to companies in the U.S. and rolling out its lower-cost competitor to UPS and FedEx over the next year and a half.
In 2019 I told you that Amazon would offer consumers a standalone alternative to UPS and FedEx, something that was delayed by the coronavirus surge in orders.
Now, though, it appears that they are close to building a shipping network to carry third party packages. And it makes perfect sense from everything we’ve seen from Amazon so far.
Amazon originally built out server capacity to handle the huge order surge for the Christmas holidays, and found that they had spare server capacity the rest of the year – and a huge capability in managing servers. So they expanded into the adjacent space of cloud computing (Amazon Web Services).
They’ve also built out a delivery and logistics shipping capacity to handle their own surges, and that gave them tons of extra capacity. Amazon delivers more of its own packages than other shipping services combined. They delivered over 3.5 billion packages last year, making their own internal shipping business two-thirds the size of UPS.
An Amazon Prime Air cargo jet landed in Baltimore last night filled with Prime Day packages and began smoking.
The Atlas Air Boeing 767-300, flight 5Y3521, had come in from Riverside, California.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
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