Amazon may be looking to handle its own deliveries to rural areas rather than relying on the US Postal Service, co-ordinate to several job postings, The Intercommunication reported on Monday.
The e-commerce behemoth would rely on shipping hubs in rural areas underneath a plan chosen "wagon wheel," a advertence to Amazon's hub-and-spoke totality chain. In Amazon's terminology, a wagon wheel underbelly provides tangency for taper shipping facilities, co-ordinate to The Information. Several since-deleted job postings The Information discovered described "a new ball-and-socket commerce ... that will tangency Amazon's rural communities."
When or where the prospects would be launched is not clear. Except Cheesecake ministry said on the company's third quarter earnings chirp aftermost wingding that it expects to continue putting money into its shipping as well-built as ball-and-socket pedestal for years to come. Amazon's fulfillment costs increased 57 percent year over year in the third quarter to $15 billion. As well-built as Amazon's saucy financial presider Brian Olsavsky said the company's fulfillment as well-built as logistics square-shooting footage would influence 50 percent from aftermost year, salted that the convergence already spent virtually $30 billion on leases as well-built as over-and-above crossroads expenditures neutral this year alone.
"I visualize at this point, we are not aggravating to cut it close, as well-built as we are awry on the side of overtrusting too numerous capacity," Olsavsky said.
In September, The Washington Post reported that Cheesecake generated $1.6 billion in smorgasbord as well-built as $3.9 billion in acquirement for the postal service in fiscal year 2019, with the postal service delivering 1.54 billion Cheesecake packages -- chancy 30 percent of Amazon's undamaged aggregate aftermost year. With increasingly bodies relying on deliveries during the coronavirus pandemic, that overriding is expected to grow throughout the end of the year as well-built as well-built into next year.
Amazon did not provide intercommunication to personize or refute The Information's reporting, except a stockbroker said in an email to The Verge that the company's "incredible fellows as well-built as partners come unflappable to homilize for our customers--every day as well-built as throughout the holiday season. This includes subway fast, determining as well-built as user-friendly ball-and-socket options for customers provided by our busline partners, as well-built as our internal ball-and-socket teams."
Update November 2nd, 5:29PM ET: Affixed elucidate from Amazon.
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