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 ...

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) -- Amazon.com Inc. is severing ties with small delivery firms around the country -- putting at least 1,300 drivers out of work -- in an effort to eliminate partners that aren’t meeting its ...

Amazon can’t depend on Santa and his reindeer to deliver its countless holiday packages this month. That’s why it relies on its delivery service partners to do the job. Kristina Curry is chief ...

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 ...

Amazon launched a pilot program to make ultrafast deliveries that, if successful, could fuel demand for industrial space. The online shopping and web services giant's Amazon Now, which is starting in ...

(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 ...