[Red Badger]

Does that mean I can take a package to Amazon and they will ship it for me?

Or is it just the volume of packages they ship and get a cut from each one?...................................

[Hoboto]

Amazon is more reliable and on-time than UPS or FedEx. It’s no surprise.

[Recovering_Democrat]

They deliver their own stuff, so it really isn’t a big deal. The local Miami media trumpeted this today like they were beating UPS and FedEx.

I don’t go to Amazon to ship my stuff to family.

[Dr. Zzyzx]

Amazon delivers all of my stuff to my local post office, which then adds on two or three more days to the delivery time while it sits in some bin in a dark corner. Heck, once they didn’t even bother trying to deliver it. They just sent it back to Amazon for who knows what reason!

[faithhopecharity]

Amazon needs to provide a much better online package tracking system for its customers!

[Grampa Dave]

Most of our Amazon prime orders used to be here in 1-2 days.

Now it is often 3-5 days

Their smaller delivery vans have been replaced with an almost Bus sized delivery vehicle using an electric motor.

We still get a few weird deliveries at night.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Amazon uses the USPS for everything the deliver to ME.

[T.B. Yoits]

Comparing Amazon to FedEx and UPS is the wrong comparison. Amazon compares with customer trips to brick and mortar stores as well as brick and mortar store to customer deliveries.

[LegendHasIt]

Hmm. Strangely, despite this, EVERY thing I have ever ordered from Amazon has been delivered by either UPS or the USPS.

[Silentgypsy]

Amazon has dumped their rural deliveries onto USPS. Of course they’ll have stellar delivery times in urban settings.

[imardmd1]

Because Amazon uses the USPS to deliver its packages that it cannot do profitably. Let the taxpayer bear the burden, not Amazon.

FedEx and UPS have not relied on the USPS's transformation to deliver stuff to hard-to-rech locations.

(IMHO)

[lapsus calami]

 

 

They really had no choice but to come up with their own shipping infrastructure to get the job done. The commercial carriers have gone increasingly flaky and unreliable, accelerated by the covid communism from 2020 forward.