More than 1,200 Amazon delivery drivers have been laid off and some facilities have been forced to close, after the company cut ties with several of its smaller delivery service partners. At least ...
Several Amazon Delivery Service Partner firms are quitting the program as rising insurance and maintenance costs erode profits despite a recent 20% per-package rate hike starting in January. Many ...
Amazon has announced plans to invest $2.1 billion in a bid to enhance its Delivery Service Partner (DSP) program, which supports small businesses that handle deliveries. A key component to the latest ...
(Bloomberg) -- Three years ago, Amazon.com Inc. issued an invitation that seemed too good to pass up: Start your own company and earn as much as $300,000 a year delivering packages for the world’s ...
CNC Logistics closed Durham DRT8 delivery station on Sept. 26 and cut 75 jobs. Company says Amazon terminated its contract unexpectedly on Aug. 27, precluding WARN notice. Amazon directed affected ...
Small businesses that use Amazon’s familiar blue vans to ferry packages say they’re getting blindsided by repair bills of $20,000 or more per vehicle that they can ill afford. The dispute over repair ...
The slowdown in new delivery contractors comes at a time when Amazon is grappling with slowing growth and overcapacity issues in its supply chain.
(Bloomberg/Spencer Soper) — In 2022, Jake Clay started an Amazon delivery firm in Odessa, Texas, after hearing about the company-sponsored program from a friend. He sank $75,000 into the business and ...
An Illinois company that drives Amazon packages "the last mile" to customers' doorsteps has shut its Durham location and laid off 75 workers after it says Amazon "suddenly and unexpectedly" ended its ...