They've boycotted Australia before
I think they've just setup their airline to run out of Brisbane Airport just over the NSW border in QLD (they were hiring a Chief Pilot on our local wanted ads in 2020)
That's good. If the choices are paying workers below minimum wage, or not selling in Australia... I hope they just don't sell/deliver in Australia. We're not really losing much that way.
Or they could just do what everyone else is doing and use AusPost or curriers - also better than Amazon delivery taking over.
https://www.nsw.gov.au/about-nsw/key-facts-about-nsw#toc-pop...
I think most Australians aren't yet aware how much better online shopping is everywhere else, and my bet is Amazon is getting ready to crush the local competition.
Australians are used to using alternatives to Amazon, and I hope they continue to do so. Amazon’s awful treatment of workers has no place in Australia.
They are even more efficient than Amazon and introduced third party sellers a few years ago. And so far they are quite successful in fighting off Amazon. Just goes to show Amazon is not unbeatable.
Amazon isn't drop shipping. Drop shipping is when the goods are sent straight from the manufacturer to the consumer. Most orders on Amazon are using Amazon Prime/fulfilled by Amazon meaning the goods (whether third party owned or Amazon owned) were stored in Amazon's warehouse before they were shipped to the costumer. Prime 2 day/1 day delivery would be impossible if the goods were dropshipped from Asia.
It just means another party besides the seller is fulfilling the order, such as any product on Amazon shipped by the marketplace seller.
Dropshipping, specifically, means that the seller doesn't actually own any of the items they sell, and instead forwards any orders they receive to another business. This is of course very low-risk, as the seller doesn't tie up any of their own capital in a potentially bad product.
Amazon's service, FBA, is an example of something similar called "third party fulfillment". In this arrangement, the seller physically owns the stock they sell, but contract out Amazon to store and ship it. The seller must put the money upfront to buy the products, and if it turns out to be a flop they eat a big loss.
I could see them excluding the area from the normal time guarantee, or from free shipping or something.
They send it via the normal postal service or you pay the extra for the higher priced service.