Amazon customers can now get their packages on Sunday, starting in Los Angeles and New York
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is working with the U.S. Postal Service to deliver packages on Sunday, starting in the Los Angeles and New York metropolitan areas. Amazon Prime members, who receive unlimited, free two-day shipping on millions of items, can now receive their packages on Sunday in these areas. Amazon and the U.S. Postal Service plan to roll out this service to a large portion of the U.S. population in 2014 including Dallas, Houston, New Orleans and Phoenix, to name a few.
“With this new service, the Postal Service is now delivering packages seven days a week in select cities. Customers can expect the same reliable and valued service that the Postal Service currently provides.”
“If you’re an Amazon Prime member, you can order a backpack for your child on Friday and be packing it for them Sunday night,” said Dave Clark, Amazon’s vice president of worldwide operations and customer service. “We’re excited that now every day is an Amazon delivery day and we know our Prime members, who voraciously shop on Amazon, will love the additional convenience they will experience as part of this new service.”
“As online shopping continues to increase, the Postal Service is very happy to offer shippers like Amazon the option of having packages delivered on Sunday,” said Patrick R. Donahoe, Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer. “With this new service, the Postal Service is now delivering packages seven days a week in select cities. Customers can expect the same reliable and valued service that the Postal Service currently provides.”
To participate, Amazon customers can simply add millions of eligible items to their cart and will see the Sunday delivery promise at checkout when available in their region.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Kindle Paperwhite is the world’s best-selling and most advanced e-reader. It features new display technology with higher contrast, the next generation built-in light, a faster processor, the latest touch technology, and exclusive new features designed from the ground up for readers. Kindle, the lightest and smallest Kindle, features improved fonts and faster page turns. The new Kindle Fire HDX features a stunning exclusive 7” or 8.9” HDX display, a quad-core 2.2 GHz processor, 2x more memory, and 11 hours of battery life, as well as exclusive new features of Fire OS 3.0 including X-Ray for Music, Second Screen, Prime Instant Video downloads, and the revolutionary new Mayday button. The all-new Kindle Fire HD includes an HD display, high-performance processor and dual speakers at a breakthrough price.
Which snake has the most important mouth?
Wonder how long until mgmt. fucks this up too, and Amazon says “Cya losers !”
Let me get this straight; we’re so broke, we need to eliminate Saturday delivery……………but it’s ok to pay Sunday Premium pay………….
Wonder what mgmt. slug is getting a nice, fat kickback from this scheme.
What a great idea!! This will keep us at the USPS afloat…come on, the PSE carriers can deliver on Sundays. They have no set bid..that’s not OT. I also started shopping on Amazon myself quite a bit lately, I love the convenience. Can’t wait until they roll this out nationwide, watch out Fedex & UPS, we’re back!!
hopefully this is a Great Opportunity for Us in USPS to make $$$ and get rid of junk mail people don’t want !!! Parcels is where the money is$$$$
Amazon could turn this defunct outfit into a cash generating organization by delivering parcels instead of waste paper which has no demand and is a self inflicted wasted cost. Amazon could create greater earnings by purchasing USPS than owning Washington Post newspaper which CEO recently bought controlling interest.
USPS is history unless operations are vamped into a market that creates demand for services offered.
The Postal Service is places a big burden on workers how make $15.00 an hour. If it ends up they have to pay OT to guys like me to get this done the USPS will loose even more $.
I do have to agree somewhat with ‘Get real says’. I’m just not going to suppose the pin stripe suits in charge of it all are as smart as he is.
I suppose the PS will sub-contract out this new service, costing itself millions of dollars more.
Makes sense to me, most of overtime on Mondays is due to back log of parcels…..Eliminate Saturday mail delivery , have CCAs deliver parcels, medical items, Express on Saturday, Sunday, then assist regulars on Mondays, Tuesdays…….Even the Union might support it since it softens the reduction in employees somewhat…
Let’s get rid of Saturday letter delivery Donahoe like you wanted to in August! Really now Sunday package delivery! I thought we were running out of money…..
Suckas the first clue to early out for carriers by September 30, 2014 was the conversion of 1500-2000 CCAs to full time regulars. Now the post office will deliver Sunday. We will need more CCAs which will make the Union happy with new dues as Carriers retire. This will be the compromise the Union needs to eliminate Saturday mail delivery, but keep parcel delivery. Remember the post office has projected a 41,000 personnel decrease in 2014.
Source: “The Postal Service is predicting a huge number of retirements–41,000–in FY 2014 that starts October 1, 2013. That is only possible if the Postal Service offers Voluntary Early Retirements with an incentive to city carriers. The new NALC contract allows the USPS to replace career City Carriers with non-career CCAs up to a maximum of 15 percent in each District. In FY 2015 the Postal Service expects the number of retirements to drop sharply to about 12,000 annually. That appears to be the end of large-scale VER incentive offers”.
– See more at: http://www.postal-reporter.com/blog/voluntary-early-retirements-for-city-carriers-in-fy-2014/#sthash.3DbsLCJ0.dpuf
– See more at: http://www.postal-reporter.com/blog/nalc-between-1500-2000-ccas-converted-to-full-time-career-status/#sthash.mPQd4Wik.dpuf