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The final leg of package delivery from distribution hubs to customers, covering fleet choices, driver economics, and delivery tech.
Amazon aims to put photo-taking smart glasses on 5,000 delivery drivers by the end of 2026 and more than 20,000 by the end of 2027, Bloomberg reported. The people in the photos hold none of the privacy controls the company has described; those sit with Amazon or the driver.
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Amazon plans to reach about 39,400 US ZIP codes with its own delivery network by 2029, a goal drawn from its contingency plan for losing the Postal Service. USPS and other carriers would then bargain with a customer that has its own route into nearly every ZIP code.
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Prime Air's sixfold expansion is a real escalation of the last-mile fight with Walmart. It is also still a rounding error on Amazon's parcel volume, and the economics remain unproven.
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Amazon said it will add $1.9bn to its Delivery Service Partner programme in 2027 and expects a national average of nearly $24 an hour. The DSPs are the employers, and the release leaves each of them to decide how the money is spent.
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Blinkit, Zepto, Instamart and BigBasket all carried Apple's new Pro models on the day they went on sale in India, with stock patchy within hours. Counterpoint and IDC both say the volumes are still small.
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The retailer says it will eventually reach most of Dunkin's 10,000 US locations, but the disclosed start is 1.5 percent of that, and no fee or unit cost has been published to support its claim of an unmatched offer.
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An internal forecast reviewed by Business Insider puts Amazon's own network at 88.7% of its US packages by 2029, ahead of the company's earlier plan. What UPS and USPS still carry stays roughly flat while Amazon's own volume absorbs the growth.
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