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jmanatVT

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I suspect the "fast" part is what's costly in terms of pollution


Amazon ships via air that may go via truck otherwise. Amazon's delivery promises may also mean that a UPS truck rolls half full today and half full tomorrow rather than just full tomorrow.

It also means that for items in the same order from different hubs, they aren't brought to the nearest hub (presuming you'd have enough traffic between hubs for it to make sense to do that) and shipped once. The question the is, does FedEx, UPS, and USPS make up for that in their optimizations, where you can skip that step without penalty?

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Posted: 01/17/2018 at 11:01AM



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