Thread: Amazon Effect?
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Old 12-05-2018 | 06:14 AM
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Originally Posted by cj3guy
Thoughts on this: https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/04/inves...ort/index.html

I've heard that the air portion accounts for roughly 10% of Brown's total revenue as they offer more than delivery services.

However, could this hurt future hiring, etc?
I’d be more worried about the amazon effect for FedEx/UPS if they could actually deliver packages on time consistently. The times I’ve tried to overnight ship something with them, it’s arrived at the same time as a regular 2 day shipping is supposed to. Often times Amazon 2 day shipping takes 3-4 days where I live. Zero recourse when products arrive late other than having to print out a Label and drive to UPS to ship the product back.

The only nice thing about amazon shipping is that it’s free with a prime membership. I find their lack of consistency annoying at the free price point. I’d be irate about it if I actually needed them to deliver on time and I paid for it. If anything Amazon late delivery returns will continue to provide a revenue stream to UPS.
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