Originally Posted by iHateAMR

Great, but FedEx has 660 airplanes, many of them able to haul more than a “brand spanking new 767.” They also have 90,000 vehicles, and 220,000 people. Amazon would need to not only match that, but do it overnight. Then, sustain the operation in a multi billion a year loss state until they build up a customer base that makes money. Not to mention Amazon has done nothing innovative that makes it more efficient than FedEx/UPS, so it will cost the same to run their operation. The entire company has made only 2 billion in 2016, it’s highest profit ever! They could pull all their boxes off FedEx, but FedEx would only lose at most 3% of their revenue and be left with loads of bulk space for higher margin boxes from other retailers.

So go ahead amazon, spend your entire worth on building a network overnight, attempt to sustain it thru your low margin sales. We’ll see how long that will last.