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Vertical integration. What percentage of Fedex, UPS, and USPS business is Amazon deliveries? I might be worried if I was in their shoes.
by douche 11y ago
Vertical integration. What percentage of Fedex, UPS, and USPS business is Amazon deliveries? I might be worried if I was in their shoes.
- schwap 11y agoI wouldn't be too worried, yet. There is a lot more to shipping a package from KY to CA than a few trucks.
- jonknee 11y agoWell they also have planes and delivery people... It's not that far off. They also have distro centers all over the place so orders frequently come from within a few hours away (or less!) and not a few states away. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-secretive-air-cargo-operation-is-running-in-ohio-and-signs-point-to-amazon http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-secretive-air-cargo-opera...
- goatforce5 11y agoYes. I was going to point out the same thing: http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/24/9790916/amazon-air-cargo-shipping-aerosmith-ohio http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/24/9790916/amazon-air-cargo-...
- jonknee 11y agoWhich is just blogspam sourcing the Motherboard article I gave...
- jonknee 11y agoIt might not be the end of the world because Amazon shipments have to be quite low margin, but yes I'm sure they are worried. What's probably more concerning is the fact that Amazon has a history of letting other people use their stack (AWS, Marketplace, etc) which could definitely do some damage to UPS/FedEx.