With the Hub, Amazon is upending not just the last mile, but the last few inches of delivery — yet another challenge to legacy players like United Parcel Service, FedEx and even the Postal Service.
Speculation about Amazon’s delivery ambitions have swirled for years now, with some analysts predicting that, beyond solving its own internal logistics problems, it could be an Amazon business unto itself. While shippers, particularly FedEx, have consistently dismissed the notion of Amazon as a threat, experts have told Retail Dive that Amazon’s shipping services could indeed rise, much like its cloud services have, to serve third parties.
