> And Amazon experimented (or is still experimenting) with building a logistics company to no longer depend on DHL.

In the UK it's been a very long time since I got many parcels from Amazon that weren't delivered by Amazon Logistics.

DPD, Royal Mail and other deliveries happen once in a blue moon but Amazon is mostly things on its own now in my experience.

Do you mean actual Amazon Logistics branded vehicles?

Where I am Amazon seem to use an independent contractor, and they're brilliant. It's always one of a couple of people I recognise, they have a nice van branded as their own company. It's a great service.

Amazon uses multiple delivery companies in Germany, including their own Amazon Logistics, Hermes, DHL standard, DHL Express, UPS, Pin AG and Deutsche Post Letter.

It usually depends on the location of the recipient.

My understanding is that the infrastructure for Amazon Logistics was added to help scale for the weekend Prime deliveries and Christmas/Black Friday season. But I guess just like AWS was born out of Amazon building internal redundancy for scalability of their compute, Amazon Logistics is paving their way towards being more independent with shipping

I think this is the norm in Canada. I’m getting all of my packages from a third party logistics company. A small local operation. This is in a major central city.

That’s probably because Canada Post is just so terrible and expensive here that it’s worth it.