A couple quick searches estimate AMZN volume is 10% of UPS. Not insignificant but not end times if lost and planned for.

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Originally posted by Georgeair:
A couple quick searches estimate AMZN volume is 10% of UPS. Not insignificant but not end times if lost and planned for.

Considering the quantity of Anazon deliveries I receive after 5 PM from UPS I’d wager it’s a lot of ot too.

Amazon The "Sears Roebuck" of our current time.

People wondered about Sears when they seemed to big to fail. How is Sear's doing now.

I believe they are doing this because of capacity. Amazon is probably predicting that growth will outstrip the existing carriers ability to deliver packages at some point. Look at the growth in just the last 3 years...
There are also projections that in a few years, there won't be enough cardboard produced in the entire world to meet packaging demands. Amazon is probably also trying to come up with a new packaging product on its own as well.

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Originally posted by Orguss:
I’ll probably apply for a position whenever they make their way to NoCal.

I'm pretty sure they are already in Sacramento.

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Originally posted by Georgeair:
A couple quick searches estimate AMZN volume is 10% of UPS. Not insignificant but not end times if lost and planned for.

I rarely see an AP package delivered via UPS any more. Had one the other day and was actually surprised. The vast majority are via USPS. Before we had AP we were getting some via "unlabelled" carriers, but haven't seen any of those since we signed up for Prime, either.

These carriers, and Amazon's competition: I don't know what to say. It isn't as if Amazon's doing anything they cannot do. They cannot fail to see how successful it is. So why they're seemingly asleep at the switch, letting Amazon do them all in, is a mystery to me.

Amazon should have an option to deliver regular postal mail too. Only makes sense since you see an Amazon box on every other front door.

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Originally posted by BadDogPSD:

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Originally posted by Orguss:
I’ll probably apply for a position whenever they make their way to NoCal.

I'm pretty sure they are already in Sacramento.

Are you sure? I read earlier this year that Amazon had no in-house delivery service in all of California. And the article posted in the OP says Los Angeles on a trial basis, only.

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
I like Amazon and am a Prime member. However, at what point do we begin to become concerned that the company is simply too big? I've begun wondering the same thing about Google.

^^This.

I'm all for American ingenuity and building your business. Bezos may be getting too big for his britches. I say this as a Prime member and stockholder.

RMD

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I'm all for American ingenuity and building your business. Bezos may be getting too big for his britches. I say this as a Prime member and stockholder.

I don't know what you guys are worried about. Just think of how great everything will be when every single product or service is provided by Amazon and Google.

You know that's exactly what they want, and I can provide a related example. In my industry (along with other building trades) there are National Service Providers (NSPs). Once upon a time a manager at Walmart can't get into his safe, so he opens the phone book and calls a safe guy.

Not any more. Now he has to call a NSP that Walmart contracts with to "handle" these issues. The NSP then wants guys like me to do the work for them. They expect a discount, other ridiculous terms, or perhaps won't even end up paying you at all. They then bill Walmart.

They aren't anywhere near the Walmart. They can't do the work Walmart needs done. But they do expect to profit off of me. Google and Amazon are on that same road.

Wendover Productions just did a video on UPS/DHL/FedEx delivery logistics strategy. Pretty interesting and he mentions Amazon at the end.