Amazon Launching Delivery Service - Competes With UPS and Fedex

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I'm curious what you guys think.  As of now Amazon is launching a pilot program for Amazon sellers only.  I'm happy there may be a new delivery service to undercut UPS and Fedex.  If this service works out,  do you think ebay may offer this to its sellers? Eventually I would imgine Amazon would target ebay sellers, but would ebay be open to a new service since they are direct competitors? 

Here's the article:  

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/09/amazon-said-to-launch-delivery-service-to-compete-with-ups-and-fed...

[mg152]

Well, they already have 2 hour delivery, 1 & 2 day delivery here. I can get some items the same day I order.

[richard1rst]

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  As of now Amazon is launching a pilot program for Amazon sellers only. 

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That's not the way I read it. It appears that they are and/or will be offering a delivery service to any business, not just Amazon customers. And not just ecommerce businesses. It looks like they will ofer the delivery service to brick and mortar stores as well. It looks like they are taking a direct assault on both UPS & FedEx. My newspaper also reports that there was downward pressure on UPS & FedEx stocks.

[thallidguy]

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I'm curious what you guys think.  As of now Amazon is launching a pilot program for Amazon sellers only.  I'm happy there may be a new delivery service to undercut UPS and Fedex.  If this service works out,  do you think ebay may offer this to its sellers? Eventually I would imgine Amazon would target ebay sellers, but would ebay be open to a new service since they are direct competitors? 

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This is simply the next evolutionary step for Amazon's courier operations. They've been delivering their own packages for a little while now — mostly using gig economy-type micro-contractors. Whenever I see a U-Haul minivan pulled up, I know it's Amazon making a delivery. So it sounds like they're going to open the service to make it available to everyone else as well?

No different from how they experimented with fulfillment subcontracting with Fulfillment by Amazon, making it available only to Marketplace sellers, then expanded it to Multichannel Fulfillment when it proved successful.

eBay has never tried to tell sellers which carriers it can and cannot use. Even if it tried, how would it enforce a ban? The worst that it could do is refuse to offer the service through eBay Shipping.

[chrysylys]

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@thallidguy wrote:

They've been delivering their own packages for a little while now — mostly using gig economy-type micro-contractors. Whenever I see a U-Haul minivan pulled up, I know it's  ....

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... the comedy show pretending to be a delivery service.  Kind of like the Marx Brothers teamed up with The Three Stooges, Anything For a Buck (Larry, Daryll and Daryll) and the mail carrier from 'Funny Farm'.