12-03-2013, 09:57 AM
Vanraw Wrote:The interview I saw said that a large percentage of Amazons shipments are under 5lbs and can be carried.
Yea, we move the bulk of the Amazon goods. The problem is you lose your shirt if you don't take in bulk the goods to a central point at delivery.
For example we tested the following:
You can take something like this to a hub then distribute everything out of the hub to try and eliminate delivery drivers and trucks. The problem is you need about 100,000 of them for a small city like Buffalo or Tucson.
The logistics alone is stupid and then you can't solve the pick up problem. They have to be able to pick up and process goods not just deliver them.
We tried driving the units to a central point but again the pick-ups aren't addressed and you waste weight by carrying the units rather than freight.
In a nutshell these are a more fancy way of losing money.