Amazon to Test a New Delivery Service for Sellers<br />When asked about the program, Amazon said in a statement, “We’re always innovating and experimenting on behalf of customers and the businesses<br />that sell and grow on Amazon to create faster, lower-cost delivery choices.”<br />Depending on how the test goes, though, the service could expand to include more sellers in more areas and allow sellers<br />that do not store their inventory in Amazon warehouses to ship orders entirely through Amazon’s own delivery network, bypassing other carriers.<br />Under the new service, known inside the company variously as Ship With Amazon and Shipping With Amazon, company couriers would pick up products from businesses<br />that sell goods through the internet retailer and deliver that merchandise to Amazon warehouses.<br />SEATTLE — Amazon is planning to test a program this year that would replace some delivery services now done by United Parcel Service and FedEx.<br />Amazon’s test, which could start in several months, will probably include only a handful of independent Amazon sellers in Los Angeles.<br />That news helped send shares of both UPS and FedEx lower on Friday, after The<br />Wall Street Journal reported on Amazon’s plans for the test in Los Angeles.
