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Will Amazon Kill FedEx?

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Re: Will Amazon Kill FedEx?

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Post by graycat »

uptown wrote: post #30
graycat wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Assumption: There is a lot of content on the Internet, and generally people have interests and want appropriate content . The most effective current means are based on keywords/phrases; these means can work really well in some cases but are at best poor for about 2/3rds of content on the Internet, queries people want to do, and content they want to find. For more: Generally, finding stuff has long been part of the fi…

Thanks for sharing more details. Sounds interesting. I'd love to get a look and provide feedback when you're ready to open it up to more users. My contact info is in my profile.

You are now on the beta test list! Thanks for your interest!

Re: Will Amazon Kill FedEx?

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Post by wccrawford »

Years ago, Amazon used DHL. I complained once about the service with them, and they said they had to continue using them in my area until they'd had enough complaints. (Which I felt was kind of reasonable, I guess.)

Less than a year later, they were no longer using them in my area, and then a while later I hear DHL basically doesn't exist in the USA.

So yeah, Amazon can apparently kill a mail carrier. Whether they will or not will depend on how bad that carrier does its business.

Re: Will Amazon Kill FedEx?

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Post by ensignavenger »

wccrawford wrote: post #32

Years ago, Amazon used DHL. I complained once about the service with them, and they said they had to continue using them in my area until they'd had enough complaints. (Which I felt was kind of reasonable, I guess.) Less than a year later, they were no longer using them in my area, and then a while later I hear DHL basically doesn't exist in the USA. So yeah, Amazon can apparently kill a mail carrier. Whether they wi…

I don't know that Amazon killed them, DHL just pretty much failed to get a foothold in the US market. I never had any trouble with them when they were delivering where I lived, myself.

Re: Will Amazon Kill FedEx?

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Post by Kevin_S »

graycat wrote: post #29
uptown wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd be curious to read more about your startup you mentioned at the end. What problem are you solving?

Assumption: There is a lot of content on the Internet, and generally people have interests and want appropriate content . The most effective current means are based on keywords/phrases; these means can work really well in some cases but are at best poor for about 2/3rds of content on the Internet, queries people want to do, and content they want to find. For more: Generally, finding stuff has long been part of the fi…

Can I also get on the beta list? This is fascinating.

Re: Will Amazon Kill FedEx?

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Post by asimuvPR »

graycat wrote: post #31
uptown wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for sharing more details. Sounds interesting. I'd love to get a look and provide feedback when you're ready to open it up to more users. My contact info is in my profile.

You are now on the beta test list! Thanks for your interest!

Id like to be on the beta list too if possible. :)

pr @ asimuv . com

Re: Will Amazon Kill FedEx?

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Post by waterphone »

erelde wrote: post #9
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.

I live in quite a remote area, with UPS and FedEx drivers that are driving hundreds of miles per day on their route, often starting over 100 miles away, and yet they're both consistently excellent. They virtually never miss delivery estimates, and often exceed them. I'm honestly quite impressed with them, especially considering a moderate amount of their route is also on fairly poor quality dirt roads.

Re: Will Amazon Kill FedEx?

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Post by CPLX »

wccrawford wrote: post #32

Years ago, Amazon used DHL. I complained once about the service with them, and they said they had to continue using them in my area until they'd had enough complaints. (Which I felt was kind of reasonable, I guess.) Less than a year later, they were no longer using them in my area, and then a while later I hear DHL basically doesn't exist in the USA. So yeah, Amazon can apparently kill a mail carrier. Whether they wi…

That is an extraordinarily loose usage of the principle of cause and effect.

Re: Will Amazon Kill FedEx?

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Post by ISL »

Amazon's edge isn't in shipping. It's in fulfillment.

Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) is a boon for many businesses, as it combines warehousing, packing/labelling, and shipping into a single interface at an attractive price. Let's not forget that they also bring customers and handle the entire billing operation, too.

If Amazon does harm FedEx/UPS, it won't be by starving them of packages directly, but rather by sidestepping their business, attracting companies to FBA, so that they never enter the "shipping" business sector.

I don't expect to see Amazon enter the point-to-point shipping business anytime soon.

Re: Will Amazon Kill FedEx?

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Post by draw_down »

I expect it. A family member has worked for FedEx ground since it was RPS, and has been telling me for years how Amazon kept hiring away their execs. And the company is your typical sclerotic old-style megacorporation mired in bureaucracy so it moves very slowly on everything.
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