Amazon Blocks Sellers from Using FedEx Ground for Prime Shipments • Hacker News Board

Re: Amazon Blocks Sellers from Using FedEx Ground for Prime Shipments

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Post by SubuSS » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 5:20 PM UTC

koboll wrote: post #152

SubuSS wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am super sure there is an acquisition of one of convoy et al by amazon very soon to build the AWS for trucking as well because they're going to have so much extra capacity in a matter of 2/3 years.

If there's extra capacity, why would they need to make an acquisition?

Convoy like companies don't actually have capacity from my understanding: They are building a uber like platform to share extra capacity. So if Amazon is to build their own trucking-cloud, this is just a logical buy (unless they decide to build in house for some reason)

Re: Amazon Blocks Sellers from Using FedEx Ground for Prime Shipments

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Post by axaxs » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 5:32 PM UTC

lsaferite wrote: post #160

axaxs wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amazon doesn't seem much better. Last week, they 'delivered' an item, marked it delivered. The problem with that is that I didn't get it, and the picture proof was not my house. I have no idea whose house it was. When I called to ask for a refund, they first told me to wait as sometimes they mark things delivered before they are. I told him about the picture. Then he asked me to go door to door in my neighborhood bec…

Funny you should mention the door to door thing. I literally just got this email from a merchant that shipped via FedEx. The package went from being delivered on the 13th to lost in limbo at the regional hub. Yay me. > In the meantime, I would recommend checking around neighbors and with any other potential members of your household to ensure the package was not incorrectly delivered.

Right? It's such a braindead thing to ask. Imagine having a package on your porch, and seeing someone walk up your driveway and grab it. That's a good way to get punched before you have time to explain.

Re: Amazon Blocks Sellers from Using FedEx Ground for Prime Shipments

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Post by WBrad » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 5:43 PM UTC

noobermin wrote: post #61

WBrad wrote: post #45

I worked for Fedex ground for a while and I can't blame Amazon for this decision. Fedex contracts their ground delivery out and the quality of service is greatly affected by that. Some areas are great and some are awful. My experience was working under an awful contractor who was near abusive in his work requirements. If anyone has any questions I'm open to answer.

Tbh I'm not sure Amazon is better wrt work requirements.

They probably aren't. The reason distribution companies like Fedex and Amazon contract their ground delivery out is the margins are too slim and they don't want to deal with vehicle maintenance. So corners are cut by contractors to actually make money in the deal. If there was a reasonable amount of money to be made Amazon would be using regular employees.

Re: Amazon Blocks Sellers from Using FedEx Ground for Prime Shipments

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Post by jjeaff » Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 1:29 AM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #135

derefr wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Doing logistics" for one's own shipping, is a bit different than "trying to subsume the role of FedEx/UPS in the economy." Certainly it's "only" a matter of scale, but logistics-as-a-service (the business FedEx and UPS are in) is as large a market as the one Amazon's already in, and you'd think clear signs of them being ready to suddenly add another few hundred billion dollars to their market cap would be reflected…

I'm not seeing how these dots are hard to connect, since "for ones own shipping" in Amazon's case seems equivalent to "for most consumer shipping".

Amazon packages supposedly account for less than 10% of packages shipped.

Re: Amazon Blocks Sellers from Using FedEx Ground for Prime Shipments

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Post by majormunky » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 4:50 PM UTC

As I sit here waiting for my new ultrawide alientware monitor, should have been here Wednesday, now its Friday. Somehow they thought that going from Whitefish, Montana, to Kennewick, WA, and then to Troutdale, OR, was faster than just stopping in Spokane, WA.