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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 3920999" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><strong>Amazon’s Pitch to Woo Shippers: Fewer Fees Than FedEx, UPS - Wall Street Journal</strong></p><p></p><p><em>New seven-day delivery service offers to pick up parcels and bring to residences, without added fuel or weekend surcharges</em></p><p></p><p><a href="https://quotes.wsj.com/AMZN" target="_blank">Amazon.com </a>Inc.,<a href="https://quotes.wsj.com/AMZN?mod=chiclets" target="_blank"> </a> which is rolling out its own delivery network, is trying to poach shippers from <a href="https://quotes.wsj.com/FDX" target="_blank">FedEx</a> Corp. and United Parcel Service Inc. by targeting a common complaint: fuel surcharges and extra fees that drive up the cost of home deliveries.</p><p></p><p>Amazon recently expanded its nascent home-delivery service, called Amazon Shipping, beyond test markets in London and Los Angeles. The online retailer is <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-launch-delivery-service-that-would-vie-with-fedex-ups-1518175920?mod=article_inline" target="_blank">offering to pick up shipments from merchants’ warehouses </a>and deliver them directly to shoppers, The Wall Street Journal has previously reported. The end-to-end service is part of Amazon’s quest to build up its own delivery network and handle more of the millions of items sold through its site.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 3920999, member: 1"] [B]Amazon’s Pitch to Woo Shippers: Fewer Fees Than FedEx, UPS - Wall Street Journal[/B] [I]New seven-day delivery service offers to pick up parcels and bring to residences, without added fuel or weekend surcharges[/I] [URL='https://quotes.wsj.com/AMZN']Amazon.com [/URL]Inc.,[URL='https://quotes.wsj.com/AMZN?mod=chiclets'] [/URL] which is rolling out its own delivery network, is trying to poach shippers from [URL='https://quotes.wsj.com/FDX']FedEx[/URL] Corp. and United Parcel Service Inc. by targeting a common complaint: fuel surcharges and extra fees that drive up the cost of home deliveries. Amazon recently expanded its nascent home-delivery service, called Amazon Shipping, beyond test markets in London and Los Angeles. The online retailer is [URL='https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-launch-delivery-service-that-would-vie-with-fedex-ups-1518175920?mod=article_inline']offering to pick up shipments from merchants’ warehouses [/URL]and deliver them directly to shoppers, The Wall Street Journal has previously reported. The end-to-end service is part of Amazon’s quest to build up its own delivery network and handle more of the millions of items sold through its site. [/QUOTE]
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