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Re:Amazon’s Shipping Empire Is Challenging UPS and FedEx by dmoy on Thursday September 05, 2019 @10:50AM (#20887253)
Huh, missing from this article is the thousand or so DSP that service Amazon for shipping, basically contracting companies. A lot of Amazon shipping is actually Amazon corporate, but a huge chunk is a thousand smaller shops.

Turns out you can also contract with those shops as a private citizen to just ship random heavy stuff anywhere for super cheap. Because Amazon gives them enough volume, it's become cheaper for individuals to make their own shipping purchases too. Strange side effect.

I don't work for Amazon or anything, but my dad has used one of their DSP to ship some truly heavy stuff (250kg+).

Is all that in the "other"? Or did it get lumped in with Amazon's chunk? I want to know but the article doesn't help.

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Re:Amazon’s Shipping Empire Is Challenging UPS and FedEx by blevo on Thursday September 05, 2019 @11:29AM (#20887690)
>"strange side-effect"

reminds me of McDonald's single-handedly bringing down the price of beef

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Re:Amazon’s Shipping Empire Is Challenging UPS and FedEx by Stratoscope on Thursday September 05, 2019 @12:16PM (#20888159)
> DSP

Just so I don't misunderstand, does that stand for Delivery Service Provider?

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Re:Amazon’s Shipping Empire Is Challenging UPS and FedEx by lloyddobbler on Thursday September 05, 2019 @01:11PM (#20888755)
"Delivery Service Partner"
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