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Will Amazon Kill FedEx?

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Post by fma »

Why does Amazon need to kill any service. Even with their cloud platform, rack space, digital ocean and plenty of other providers are thriving and coming up.

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Post by dfsegoat »

FedEx is both an established airline AND one of the most trusted logistics companies on the planet. So Amazon can beat them when they can do this on demand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-qPtWc4heA

For brevity: the above purports to show a time lapse of FedEx's fleet of DC-10s, Airbus A310s etc - packed with fuel, valuables and people - scrambling for the Memphis, TN hub and hooking in handily around a massive angry thunderstorm.

It looks like a perfectly organized, well timed dance - with incredibly high stakes.

edit: clarity.

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Post by caseyf7 »

Just yesterday I had someone from the other coast leave a laptop charger. Rather messing with the UPS or FEDEX, I just ordered a new one and had it delivered to their address.

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Post by bdcravens »

fma wrote: post #3

Why does Amazon need to kill any service. Even with their cloud platform, rack space, digital ocean and plenty of other providers are thriving and coming up.

Apples and oranges. You're talking about horizontal competitors in one industry, and significant cost centers in another.

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Post by jhall1468 »

fma wrote: post #3

Why does Amazon need to kill any service. Even with their cloud platform, rack space, digital ocean and plenty of other providers are thriving and coming up.

AWS is infrastructure as a service. Digital Ocean sells virtual private servers. They aren't even remotely the same product. I host a blog on DO for a few buck a month. My company hosts their entire infrastructure on AWS for 4 different applications.

Apples and oranges.

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Post by okket » 

  "I fully expect Amazon to build out a logistics supply
   chain that others can use. Over the next five years? I
   doubt it. Over 10 or 15 years? Oh yeah."
From this speculation arguing that Amazon will "kill FedEx" is just nuts, IMHO. But printing nutty things is part of journalism, so enjoy the ride.

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Post by erelde »

dfsegoat wrote: post #4

FedEx is both an established airline AND one of the most trusted logistics companies on the planet. So Amazon can beat them when they can do this on demand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-qPtWc4heA For brevity: the above purports to show a time lapse of FedEx's fleet of DC-10s, Airbus A310s etc - packed with fuel, valuables and people - scrambling for the Memphis, TN hub and hooking in handily around a massive ang…

The Fedex courier in my area has been consistently bad for years and doesn't get fired. Two weeks ago: doesn't come, doesn't leave a notice, two days in a row, claiming he came, I had a to exchange some salty emails with customer service to get my package. Each time I had to use Fedex these last 3 years I've had to do this cycle.

On the other hand I have developped a "good relationship" with the UPS courier.

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Post by duaneb »

caseyf7 wrote: post #5

Just yesterday I had someone from the other coast leave a laptop charger. Rather messing with the UPS or FEDEX, I just ordered a new one and had it delivered to their address.

That's like $70 you didn't need to spend. Hell of a convenience fee.

I've only recently hit power cord saturation, though.

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