Amazon Is Quietly Shipping Non-Amazon Orders To Compete With FedEx, UPS

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Amazon is on a spending spree to grow its fleet of planes, vans, semitrucks and drivers in its latest move to compete with FedEx and UPS. Now, it’s using the added capacity to move cargo for outside customers, betting big on the business of third-party shipping while also shipping 72% of its own packages. CNBC talks to former Amazon executives and current customers using the shipping services to find out all about the behemoth’s next big move.

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Amazon now ships for other merchants to compete with FedEx, UPS

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  1. Why does it matter if the box says Amazon on it? If I bought something from eBay and it came in an Amazon box I would not care. The only thing I care about is that I got what I paid for

  2. With port inefficiency having your stuff in chartered ship make sense you can bypass busy portsand own aircraft things will be on their own time and less busy airports. With package shipping amazone must deblope network of agents like ups stores fed express at stores like staples and boxes at truck stops like ups and fedex. If they can provide good service it may work. As a trucker getting paperwork to home office i need flawless service 100 percent of time. No store want to help their competition fedex and ups dont sell products stores wont allow amazon having drop boxes on stores or distribution centers

  3. I wonder why Amazon needs to charge me 409.17 to send unopened items back to their seller , so the seller could resell and make a profit. Sent me emails telling me to send items then send Amazon my receipts and I would be reimbursed. I was charged 409.17 by Fedex and I have been reimbursed. I spent 409.17 and have nothing to show for that money WHY?

  4. But why do we need this? The freight market is saturation. What problem is Amazon solving with this solution? What happened with Amazon Prime foods? Fail!

  5. BOYCOTT AMAZON. THEY R REPLACING HUMAN WORKERS WITH ROBOT'S. THE PROMISE JOB & DO SO N THE BEGINNING BUT FAZE HUMANS OUT. AMAZON FACTORY N EDVARDVILLE ILL ONLY HAS 7 FULL TIME HUMAN WORKERS R THE R ROBOT'S. GOOGLE WILL EVEN TELL U THAT.

  6. Amazon will have a warehouse in every state and probably a store. Then another online retail giant will emerge and the cycle will continue….

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