Amazon will suspend their third party delivery services starting in June to focus on its main shipping service.
What We Know:
- An Amazon spokesperson confirmed that the company will be pausing its services. The online retail giant told customers it will pause its Amazon Shipping program, a service that competes directly with FedEx and UPS.
- “We understand this is a change to your business, and we did not take this decision lightly,” Amazon said in a note to shippers, according to the Journal. “We will work with you over the next several weeks so there is as little disruption to your business as possible.”
- The Amazon Shipping service consists of drivers picking packages up from businesses and delivering them to consumers, rather than shipping orders from Amazon’s warehouses.
- “We regularly look at a variety of factors across Amazon to make sure we’re set up in the right way to best serve our customers,” the spokesperson said.
- The company is pausing the shipping service in order to handle the surge in its own customers’ orders. Online shoppers may experience shipping delays as it manages an increase of orders amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Amazon also advised that it will be hiring close to 100,000 warehouse and delivery workers to support the increased demand.
