This. Logistics at scale is like spinning plates. One falls so does the rest, and when you're dealing with hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of packages

This. Logistics at scale is like spinning plates. One falls so does the rest, and when you're dealing with hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of packages (which is still a fraction of Amazon's scale) you're not filling up a family van and taking it to retail. Amazon has the advantage of their own logistics infra, and scale. They earned it. But to those suggesting "why can't you...?" -- well, you try it. This is the equivalent of AWS or Azure going down indefinitely for these businesses.