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Originally Posted by cuervo72
I imagine Amazon builds their own fleet for much of the low-hanging (urban) fruit, while opting to use USPS for those hard-to-reach (rural) places. Once set up, it has to be cheaper for Amazon do it themselves in some cases. In others establishing the infrastructure is never going to be worth it.
I would also guess there would be some calculation for overflow/holiday/surge volume but no idea what that might entail.
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I think Bezos is also obsessed with monopolizing markets/paranoid other people will try & do it to him since it's how he views supply chains.
The delivery system is also sketchy - they are trying to set it up all as independent contractors instead of under Amazon. I don't know how much of this is tied to not wanting to pay health care/401k's etc to more people & how much is tied to them wanting to be able to scale up or down depending on time of year, but they're only investing long term in the vans not the whole business arm so far.