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The company’s growing logistics and delivery network is something to keep an eye on.
Amazon.com’s shipping costs increased 23% year over year in the fourth quarter. While that’s an improvement from the 31% increase during the same period last year, it’s still more than the 14% increase in paid units the online retailer managed.
Amazon is working to reduce shipping expenses by moving more of its logistics and deliveries in-house with Amazon Air and a homegrown network of delivery service providers. On the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call, CFO Brian Olsavsky provided some additional details about how Amazon manages its shipments between its own network and partners including FedEx and UPS.
By law, only you and the U.S. Postal Service are allowed to put things in your mailbox. But what if companies like FedEx and UPS could do it too?
That could happen under a recommendation by the Trump administration.
A White House task force said in December that USPS should “explore franchising the mailbox as a means of generating revenue.”
The Postal Service could use the cash.
Everyone had their own way of handling Thursday’s brand of bitter cold, which bit and stung and got under the skin and stayed there.
Reuben Desir has been professionally trained to confront the cold.
So as the UPS delivery worker went about his rounds Thursday, he kept his chin up and the rest of himself covered in multiple layers of clothing.
“Five on top, three on bottom,” said Desir, 32, of Hempstead, describing the mix of shirts, sweaters and undergarments under his brown uniform.
Companies were criticized for sending employees out in the Midwest’s deep freeze
Some people are steaming that, despite the Midwest’s arctic temperatures, Wednesday was just another day on the job for many service and delivery workers.
FedEx and UPS took some heat on Twitter for allowing drivers go out in the subzero temperatures. Fast-food chain Sonic and the retail giant Target were among some of the food companies and retailers that were criticized for staying open during the freezing weather.