The Future of Shipping and Delivery

ThePackageDeli

Well-Known Member
Same-day and 1-day shipping are fundamentally changing the industry-
improving the norms of today and shaping the expectations of tomorrow.

If Amazon fees are less than the cost to ship UPS, customers from everywhere will ship exclusively through Amazon.

Goodbye UPS.

Sincerely,
Amazon
 

WTFm8

Well-Known Member
So Amazon is going to ship for Wal-Mart, Target, etc....?

Yes. Customers are already reporting of Amazon ‘poachers’ trying to steal accounts by guaranteeing an average cost reduction of $5/package.

Overheard a UPS sales rep on a conference call. Everybody was having a good laugh because there’s no way Amazon could hold that promise without knowing what customer is already paying.
 

cosis

Well-Known Member
Walmart and Target aren't going to use Amazon to ship, that is their competitor.. although they probably will start shifting more to Fedex
 

Poop Head

Judge me.
Yes. Customers are already reporting of Amazon ‘poachers’ trying to steal accounts by guaranteeing an average cost reduction of $5/package.

Overheard a UPS sales rep on a conference call. Everybody was having a good laugh because there’s no way Amazon could hold that promise without knowing what customer is already paying.
Overheard it while you were under the desk?
 

badpal

Well-Known Member
Thursdays earnings report showed paying for shipping becoming a bigger headache for Amazon. They finding out free overnight shipping aint so cheap.
 

wide load

Starting wage is a waste of time.
Same-day and 1-day shipping are fundamentally changing the industry-
improving the norms of today and shaping the expectations of tomorrow.

If Amazon fees are less than the cost to ship UPS, customers from everywhere will ship exclusively through Amazon.

Goodbye UPS.

Sincerely,
Amazon
Lots of packages can fit in those tiny vans huh?
 
Lots of packages can fit in those tiny vans huh?
Just have to load it correctly
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UPSER1987

Well-Known Member
Yes. Customers are already reporting of Amazon ‘poachers’ trying to steal accounts by guaranteeing an average cost reduction of $5/package.

Overheard a UPS sales rep on a conference call. Everybody was having a good laugh because there’s no way Amazon could hold that promise without knowing what customer is already paying.

Calling bs to this. When and where did you overhear a sales conference call? Such bs on this forum
 

Indecisi0n

Well-Known Member
Same-day and 1-day shipping are fundamentally changing the industry-
improving the norms of today and shaping the expectations of tomorrow.

If Amazon fees are less than the cost to ship UPS, customers from everywhere will ship exclusively through Amazon.

Goodbye UPS.

Sincerely,
Amazon
They can only offer this on items that are local to that specific customer in their area. This is why not all items on Amazon are prime. So unless Amazon wants to build a warehouse the size of NY in every state and house all items it sells its not going to happen. Thank you for playing, bye bye.
 

OrioN

double tap o da horn dooshbag
Walmart and Target aren't going to use Amazon to ship, that is their competitor.. although they probably will start shifting more to Fedex

Yup, FXG in my terminal has an up tick in volume from the blue boxes and target logo boxes and white plastic bags/smalls

Sorry your union is too short sighted to be helping Amazon though
 

Turdferguson

Just a turd
Same-day and 1-day shipping are fundamentally changing the industry-
improving the norms of today and shaping the expectations of tomorrow.

If Amazon fees are less than the cost to ship UPS, customers from everywhere will ship exclusively through Amazon.

Goodbye UPS.

Sincerely,
Amazon

Microsoft snags hotly contested $10 billion defense contract, beating out Amazon
Amazon has bigger problems than trying to put UPS out of business. Their honeypot is drying up
 

ThePackageDeli

Well-Known Member
They can only offer this on items that are local to that specific customer in their area. This is why not all items on Amazon are prime. So unless Amazon wants to build a warehouse the size of NY in every state and house all items it sells its not going to happen. Thank you for playing, bye bye.

Many products will likely never be available for same-day or 1-day shipping, I agree. And consumers will still see an increase in the number of products that ARE available same-day and 1-day which is an improvement any way you look at it for the consumer.

But, I'm talking about shipping costs.

Example:
Joe orders a shirt from shirts.com and has to pay $11.99 for 2-day shipping. If Joe can order the same shirt from shirt.com's Amazon store and pay $7.99 for 2-day shipping he'll likely do that.

If shirts.com can profit more from selling on Amazon than on their own website, how do you think they'll direct their traffic?

If you extrapolate this concept out to the thousands of e-commerce businesses that Amazon would benefit, we're dealing with a substantial loss of business.
 
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