Amazon launches its own delivery service

Amazon parcels, which usually arrive in a UPS truck, a vehicle without marking or in the hands of the postman, could be delivered very soon by a truck of the giant of the online sale.

Amazon has looked for ways to have more control over how it delivers its goods. With the program, which began Thursday, entrepreneurs across the United States can start services to deliver Amazon packages. The step gives the company more ways to deliver their parcels without having to rely on UPS, FedEx, the US Postal Service and other parcel services.

Amazon says that with their pickup trucks, more buyers will be able to track their parcels on an online map, contact the driver or change at the last minute the place where you will leave a parcel: what can not be done until now when the parcel is at the back of a UPS, FedEx and USPS truck.

Amazon has strengthened its distribution network in other ways. It has a fleet of cargo planes called "Prime Air," announced last year that it was building an air cargo distribution center in Kentucky and was paying about $ 25 worth of air freight. time to deliver packages with their vehicles via Amazon Flex.

US President Donald Trump recently criticized the company, tweeting that Amazon should pay more to the postal service for delivery of their packages. Dave Clark, the vice president of global operations of Amazon, said the program is not an answer to Trump, but a way to ensure that the company can deliver its increasing number of orders.

Amazon says that through the program, a person can start his own business transactions for the company, with an investment of only $ 10,000. Entrepreneurs participating in the program can rent blue vans bearing the Amazon logo, buy Amazon uniforms for drivers and get support from Amazon to run the business.

Contractors should not rent vans, but if they do, these vehicles can not be used to deliver Amazon packages, says the company. The contractor will be responsible for hiring drivers and other employees and Amazon will be the customer, paying the company to pick up parcels from any of its 75 parcel centers Americans and leave them at the customer's door. A representative from the Amazon refused to give details on the amount that the company will pay for the transactions.