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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2383989" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/amazons-newest-ambitioncompeting-directly-with-ups-and-fedex-1474994758" target="_blank"><strong>Amazon’s Newest Ambition: Competing Directly With UPS and FedEx - Wall Street Journal</strong></a></p><p></p><p><em>Just before the morning rush hour on a recent Thursday, a brigade of vans rolled up to a low-slung warehouse near Los Angeles International Airport.</em></p><p></p><p>Workers in bright green vests crammed some 150 Amazon.com packages into each truck before the fleet headed through the urban sprawl to customers’ doorsteps.</p><p></p><p>This logistical dance wasn’t performed by <a href="http://quotes.wsj.com/UPS" target="_blank">United Parcel Service</a> Inc.,<a href="http://quotes.wsj.com/UPS" target="_blank"> </a> <a href="http://quotes.wsj.com/FDX" target="_blank">FedEx</a> Corp.<a href="http://quotes.wsj.com/FDX" target="_blank"> </a> or the U.S. Postal Service, all longtime carriers for the online-retail giant. It was part of an operation by <a href="http://quotes.wsj.com/AMZN" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a> Inc.<a href="http://quotes.wsj.com/AMZN" target="_blank"> </a> itself, which is laying the groundwork for its own shipping business in a brazen challenge to America’s freight titans.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2383989, member: 1"] [URL='http://www.wsj.com/articles/amazons-newest-ambitioncompeting-directly-with-ups-and-fedex-1474994758'][B]Amazon’s Newest Ambition: Competing Directly With UPS and FedEx - Wall Street Journal[/B][/URL] [I]Just before the morning rush hour on a recent Thursday, a brigade of vans rolled up to a low-slung warehouse near Los Angeles International Airport.[/I] Workers in bright green vests crammed some 150 Amazon.com packages into each truck before the fleet headed through the urban sprawl to customers’ doorsteps. This logistical dance wasn’t performed by [URL='http://quotes.wsj.com/UPS']United Parcel Service[/URL] Inc.,[URL='http://quotes.wsj.com/UPS'] [/URL] [URL='http://quotes.wsj.com/FDX']FedEx[/URL] Corp.[URL='http://quotes.wsj.com/FDX'] [/URL] or the U.S. Postal Service, all longtime carriers for the online-retail giant. It was part of an operation by [URL='http://quotes.wsj.com/AMZN']Amazon.com[/URL] Inc.[URL='http://quotes.wsj.com/AMZN'] [/URL] itself, which is laying the groundwork for its own shipping business in a brazen challenge to America’s freight titans. [/QUOTE]
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