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The future of the Amazon the post is in full view in a parking lot in San Francisco. Amazon is testing, close to Candlestick Park recently closed, its own delivery network for the last mile, which is the last part of the journey of a parcel arriving to the consumer. Vans laden with parcels Amazon and guided by contractors, the post controlled by the same company, start to deliver the goods in the city of San Francisco.
Even in Los Angeles and New York are preparing to do the same. Being able to directly deliver their packages to give Amazon, who during the Christmas season suffers significant delays in deliveries, the more control over the sales and the ability to contain the shipping costs, which affect every year since 2009 as a percentage of sales. Amazon has reported another quarter of profits scarce just at the time when sales increased 23% to 19.74 billion dollars. Shipping costs are increased by 31% along with those for cloud computing and other initiatives. The profits of the first quarter were $ 108 million, higher than the 82 million the previous year. The new Amazon delivery operations move closer to the holy grail of e-commerce: deliver the goods on the same day of purchase, offering the post buyers a reason to not go to physical stores. Thanks to its transportation, Amazon could offer deliveries at late hours or specific times. This decision is a warning to companies such as UPS, FedEx and at the same US Postal Service, which currently deliver the majority of parcels Amazon. And it is also a challenge for Wal-Mart, eBay and Google, who are in turn testing services delivery. After all, a network of deliveries from online retailer Amazon the post could turn a full-service logistics company that delivers goods to others, relate some former manager of Amazon, the post however, that this step could take place in the future. This delivery management is a big step for the ambitions of the biggest American e-commerce company, which has expanded into areas such as video, the post set-top box to TV via the Web and soon smartphones, among other things. It is not clear if Amazon will achieve all its objectives. Ups, founded in 1907, has an advantage over more than a century. Analysts say that Amazon will be difficult to match the efficiency of UPS or FedEx in the United States markets, simply because they deliver a smaller number of parcels in a wider area. Amazon launched last year cautiously the post its network of deliveries in the United States, putting labels on the packages the post saying "AMZL" and "AMZN_US." His customer service staff and former employees claim that these codes indicate the post the internal network of Amazon deliveries . Customers who have received the post the parcels have reported seeing a different process of tracking, without reference to an external forwarder. The next in contention for Amazon's Treasure Island, an artificial strip of land in the Bay of San Francisco. Amazon is considering the hiring of an area on the island to accommodate trailers and delivery trucks, according to a person aware of the facts. From there, the media would be sent to San Francisco, probably late at night and early morning when traffic is less intense and disturbing the post fewer residents. Publishing some vacancies on the website, Amazon gave some details on the delivery network. "Amazon is growing faster than UPS and FedEx, which deal with the delivery of most of our parcels. At this speed, we can not continue to rely solely on solutions provided by traditional service providers, otherwise our growth will be limited, the cost will increase and innovation of the possibility of delivery will be hampered. the post The last mile is the solution to this. It is a program that will revolutionize the way in which the goods are shipped to millions the post of consumers. " As a prelude to the delivery operations in the United States, Amazon has tested a network of UK deliveries. "We created our own networks of fast delivery of last mile in the United Kingdom, where commercial carriers could not sustain our volumes," said CEO Jeff Bezos in his annual letter to shareholders earlier this month, " there are many other things to come. " Amazon usually uses small courier companies to deliver parcels with the words' Amazon Logistics "and recently got an investment option in Yodel, the UK parcel delivery service. Dave Clark, Amazon's vice president of international the post operations, said in November that the company will use in London their own means of transport for the deliveries on Sundays.
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