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I think that Amazon, may in the end be better off starting their own shipping company. It may sound weird, but I'm half surprised they didn't buy Uber or Lyft, not for the ride service, but for the drivers and the logistics in place. Large trucks from warehouses, to meet drivers in individual vehicles at drop spots, for final deliveries.

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Amazon has their own shipping company, although I've found it to be subpar compared to passing the shipments off to the USPS or FedEx (largely because their deliveries don't have access to existing maildrops or mailboxes).

The recently rolled-out same-day delivery uses their shipping service without a handoff.

Yeah, as much as I appreciate their initiative there, the Amazon delivery drivers don't have access to my building and the company seems to be unable to solve that. So I have to buzz them in every time.

At least in the UK, Amazon already does that. Most things are delivered by Amazon's own drivers. The vehicles are not branded, so it may be an Uber-like model where the driver uses their own car, or they just rent white vans.

I think of it more as a Yodel-like model. The drivers mostly don't care, and a lot of my parcels get delivered into my bin.

Amazon logistics here in the uk is utter rubbish. It seems completely random as to wether you shipment will arrive the day they suggest or not and half the time it get lost.

With prime getting more expensive (we don't was the video stuff), the new "add on items and the rubbish delivery service we have given up on Amazon and very rarely use it.

It's already going that way

Brilliant, though I think they are investing more time in the drones

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