People Share How Amazon Couriers "Hide" Their Packages In An Amusing Twitter Thread

by Damjan

Couriers really have it rough. If a delivery gets damaged or stolen, it's usually the delivery guy who's blamed. But some of them are not even trying to hide the package, and they are the reason the couriers get a terrible reputation.

Danielle McPherson recently shared a photo of her experience. She found her Amazon parcel placed on decorative stones near the house, with a few of them tossed on top of the package.

Danielle's tweet immediately went viral and got over 325K likes and 1.1K comments. Many of them are actually photos of other people's similar experiences. They have "minimum effort" written all over them….

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Morgan Stanley estimates that Amazon is already distributing about half of its packages in the U.S. and will soon exceed both United Parcel Service and FedEx in total quantity.

Amazon Logistics doubled its share of U.S. packages and is now delivering a fantastic 2.5 billion packages per year. To put things in perspective, UPS ships 4.7 billion, and FedEx ships 3 billion packages per year in the U.S.

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"Customers love the transition of Prime from two days to one day — they've already ordered billions of items with free one-day delivery this year. It's a big investment, and it's the right long-term decision for customers," the Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos stated about the one-day Prime shipping.

The company focuses not only on delivering more packages to more consumers at greater speeds. It's also focusing on owning the entire process- from the arrival of merchandise at an Amazon factory (or the product's assembly by an Amazon subsidiary) to the last-mile distribution to the consumer's doorstep. And they are doing a great job so far….