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Alan Rappa

Report: Amazon Piloting New Delivery Service To Reduce Reliance On UPS, FedEx

It’s no secret that Amazon has long been lusting after the chance to unfetter itself from the delivery ties that bind it to companies like FedEx and UPS — with its own branded freight plane, plans for self-driving delivery vehicles, and of course, drone delivery — and now it sounds like the company is one step closer to its dream of independence, with a new test of its own delivery service. [More]

Report: Amazon Offers Flex Drivers Opportunity To Deliver Regular Amazon.com Packages

Report: Amazon Offers Flex Drivers Opportunity To Deliver Regular Amazon.com Packages

Last year, Amazon introduced Flex, an on-demand workforce that makes deliveries for orders placed through the Prime Now app. The service is available in 14 cities, and lets customers order from a narrow selection of only about 10,000 Amazon items for delivery within two hours. Some drivers for Flex say that they have been asked to try working for a new, experimental service: delivering regular Amazon.com orders to residential addresses. [More]