The company is also still working on its Prime Air delivery drone a new version will supposedly start making limited deliveries soon.Īmazon can fill gaps in its own system with UPS or the US Postal Service.
FED EX BY END OF DAY DRIVERS
This April, the program expanded again to let Amazon delivery drivers directly into garages. Six months later, this expanded to delivering packages directly to the trunks of people’s cars. In October 2017 it launched Amazon Key, an option for customers to let couriers open their front doors using smart locks. Nicolas Economou/Getty ImagesĪmazon, for its part, is growing into a logistics behemoth, with hundreds of fulfillment centers in the US and Europe, a leased fleet of 40 Boeing cargo planes, two regional air hubs, a new staff of thousands of full-time delivery drivers, and a growing freight shipping arm. In February, it started trials of an autonomous delivery robot named SameDay Bot.
This was just a few months after announcing its Extra Hours service, which promised next-day local delivery or two-day shipping anywhere in the US for orders placed as late as 2 am the night before. In May, FedEx announced that it would start offering service seven days a week, starting next January (as did UPS). FedEx has been a great partner over the years and we appreciate all their work delivering packages to our customers.” Still, the two companies have engaged in something of a shipping arms race for years. Amazon told Vox, “We are constantly innovating to improve the carrier experience and sometimes that means reevaluating our carrier relationships. On the record, the two entities have never expressed anything but vague corporate friendliness towards each other. (Vox has reached out to FedEx for comment.)
“This change is consistent with our strategy to focus on the broader e-commerce market,” FedEx told Bloomberg, highlighting the fact that Amazon provided just 1.3 percent of FedEx’s income last year. This news comes just two months after FedEx announced that its domestic Express service would no longer carry Amazon packages by plane.
FedEx won’t be renewing its ground delivery contract with Amazon when it expires at the end of the month, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.
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