Amazon to Test a New Delivery Service for Sellers
When asked about the program, Amazon said in a statement, “We’re always innovating and experimenting on behalf of customers and the businesses
that sell and grow on Amazon to create faster, lower-cost delivery choices.”
Depending on how the test goes, though, the service could expand to include more sellers in more areas and allow sellers
that do not store their inventory in Amazon warehouses to ship orders entirely through Amazon’s own delivery network, bypassing other carriers.
Under the new service, known inside the company variously as Ship With Amazon and Shipping With Amazon, company couriers would pick up products from businesses
that sell goods through the internet retailer and deliver that merchandise to Amazon warehouses.
SEATTLE — Amazon is planning to test a program this year that would replace some delivery services now done by United Parcel Service and FedEx.
Amazon’s test, which could start in several months, will probably include only a handful of independent Amazon sellers in Los Angeles.
That news helped send shares of both UPS and FedEx lower on Friday, after The
Wall Street Journal reported on Amazon’s plans for the test in Los Angeles.
