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No disagreement there. Absolutely 100% agree that they will surpass UPS and FedEx. Last year, Amazon delivered around 2.5 billion packages...FedEx around 3 billion...and UPS around $5 billion. It's expected by 2022, Amazon will deliver around 6.5 billion. That's a BIG jump in 2 years. Will they put UPS and FedEx out of business...HIGHLY UNLIKELY. It's the same reason why UPS hasn't put FedEx out of business. They're both competitors in the same market with one doing better than the other. Amazon will most likely be just another competitor that will probably be dominate in the market...but not enough to put UPS, FedEx or DHL out of business.

USPS on the other hand is completely different. Unlike UPS, FedEx and Amazon...which are private sector companies who have shareholders to answer to...USPS is not a company. They are a government agency. Completely self sustained with no congressional funding or a dime of tax payers money involved. Everything that keeps the PO running is through the sales of postage, packages and services. So they're not in it for the profit like the public sector is...there in it to keep it's own operations running. There's no inferstructure out there that even comes close to the PO. It's been around since Benjamin Franklin was the very first Postmaster General and has built a network for centuries that allows it to be able to deliver to every single household in the U.S. every single day. Not even UPS, FedEx, Amazon or Walmart combined has that ability to do that. Sure Amazon will most likely be the king in e-commerce delivery, but in order for them to surpass UPS and FedEx combined would mean having an inferstructure and logistics to be able to handle that. Surpassing UPS, FedEx AND USPS combined...I don't see that ever happening. Just my honest opinion

 

imagine if Amazon starts using its delivery network to start delivering packages for small companies outside its network like USPS and the other ones.

USPS is in a middle of a budget crisis ever since fedex and ups started expanding and the invention of emails. with Amazons lower operating costs it will soon be in position to fully compete with all of them.


Remember Amazon isn’t unionized, it’s already trying to reshape the driving industry by making cdls as common as yard jockeys via policy that a guard shack is the same as a yard jockey which is the same as a tractor driver.

just like USPS giving out free supplies to use its priority shipping Amazon will start doing that just to increase its bottom line.

 

For the time being they are only shuttling trailers between amazon facilities and returning empties to companies that deliver to them. I have yet to see any Amazon tractors on the highway outside of the city.

 

"Linehaul spec". Still trying to figure out what this means, given the fact that all the LTL companies use the same tractors for Local and linehaul.

 

Linehaul spec



Local P&D spec

 

One company that's been under the radar and is planning on getting into the game is eBay. They've seen what Amazon has done and are planning on building fulfilment service of their own. A little too little too late IMO...but they also might be another competitor competing in the market. But one thing about e-commerce is that it's only getting bigger and bigger...so there's more than enough for everybody to get a piece of the pie.......

EBay to Launch Shipping, Logistics Service for Big Sellers

 

Those were actually the first vehicles I ever saw of theirs starting a few years ago and I hardly ever see them these days. They were plain white, unbranded pups. The only way you knew they were Amazon trailers was by the "AZNG" on the door. They were pulled by random contractors just like the Prime long boxes are now. The pups actually came before the branded Prime blue van trailers you see everywhere now.

I don't know if it was a failed experiment or what, but I haven't seen those plain white sets of doubles in quite a while now that I'm thinking about it.

 

Well, as you know, i did for $17.40, not too long ago.........