NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is banning its third-party merchants from using FedEx’s ground service to deliver to Prime members, suggesting that it thinks the service is too slow to get packages to their destinations in time for Christmas.
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The temporary ban will block those companies from using FedEx Ground service, although they can still use pricier FedEx Express shipping for Prime shipments.
More than half of the items sold on Amazon.com come from third-party sellers, who post their goods for sale on Amazon’s online marketplace.
News of the ban was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
FedEx Corp. said in a statement that the decision affects “a very small number of shippers” and said it “limits the options for those small businesses on some of the highest demand shipping days in history, and may compromise their ability to meet customer demands and manage their businesses.”
Amazon and FedEx have a testy relationship. Amazon.com Inc. has been expanding its own delivery fleet in the past few years, hoping to rely less on UPS, FedEx and other delivery services. Last week, research by analysts at Morgan Stanley estimated that Amazon delivers about half of its own packages.
FedEx severed ties with Amazon earlier this year, saying it wouldn’t make ground or air deliveries for the online shopping giant. But third-party sellers were still able to use FedEx.
Surprise surprise. When Trump attacks Bezos oh he is bad. Bezos is fuming that the last govt cloud contract went to IBM or Bill Gates. Guess what? Bezos did the same too via taking revenge at fed ex. Its takes one to know one
The FedEx drivers in my neighborhood block routinely block people’s driveways, or even park in driveways, where they aren’t even making deliveries. Sometimes, they are just too lazy to ring a bell to notify customers that a delivery has been made. Therefore, I’m not sorry to see Amazon dropping them.
FEDEX SERVICE SUCKS, BUT AMAZON IS WORSE! LET THE SELLERS USE SLOW SHIPPING, AS LONG AS THEY DON’T MISLEAD THE CUSTOMERS!
The last bunch of Amazon orders I made were shipped and delivered late. None were touched by FEDEX. Amazon, when contacted, refused to apologize and actually said that two day prime is referring to transit time and they could use as many days as necessary to ship.
FEDEX Ground is somewhat independent of FEDEX. The routes and area’s are owned by the drivers. They need answer to nobody and are notorious for rudeness, blocking streets and driveways and even being dangerous.