After starting in selected cities around the country, Amazon and the U.S. Postal Service are closer to rolling out Sunday parcel delivery on a nationwide scale.
In recent weeks, Sunday delivery has launched in Seattle and Portland, and various other cities are potentially only weeks from going live — including the Boston area and a huge swath of California, including San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
GeekWire made dozens of phone calls to post offices across the country to confirm that the service is coming soon, in an apparent push that puts the rollout ahead of expectations.
In May, Amazon said 15 cities were eligible for Sunday delivery in addition to Los Angeles and the New York metro areas, where the service first launched in November 2013.
But letter carriers in two cities that were not on that list — Seattle and Portland — have been actively delivering packages for the past two Sundays. The Seattle district includes a vast area, spanning from the Canadian boarder in Blaine, Wash. to the state capitol in Olympia, according to one source. Carriers in these areas have been spotted working on Sunday and holidays, including the Fourth of July just last week.