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Amazon has transformed online shopping by making the delivery process fast, cheap and relatively painless for consumers.

One major way Amazon has been able to achieve this goal is by building out a sprawling network of warehouses around the country. These facilities are typically at least 100,000 square feet in size and house all kinds of product inventory.

Amazon launched its warehouse network in 1997 with two fulfillment centers in Seattle, Washington and New Castle, Delaware. The company began adding new locations at a rapid pace in 2005, according to MWPVL International, a supply chain and logistics consulting firm.

Within the last two decades, Amazon fulfillment centers have popped up in almost every corner of the U.S., as the company has pushed to bring items closer to customers to enable faster deliveries. Amazon doubled down on that effort last April when it announced it would shorten Prime's two-day free shipping plan to one day.

This map shows where Amazon's fulfillment centers are scattered across the country. Amazon said it has more than 110 active fulfillment centers in the US and more than 185 centers globally. Of the centers on the map, 33 are planned locations that have either been confirmed by Amazon or published in media reports.

Amazon has opened the most fulfillment centers in California and it appears to be planning many future locations across the southern US.

Amazon's fulfillment center network is just one of several ways it has become a growing player in the logistics and shipping industry, taking on the likes of FedEx and UPS. The company has been ramping up efforts to launch its own delivery network, via growing fleets of airplanes, delivery drones and vans.

An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment on the company's future warehouse plans, but said it is "constantly exploring new locations and weighing a variety of factors when deciding where to develop future sites."
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Amazon has transformed online shopping by making the delivery process fast, cheap and relatively painless for consumers. One major way Amazon has been able to achieve this goal is by building out a sprawling network of warehouses around the country. These facilities are typically at least 100,000 square feet in size and house all kinds of product inventory.

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How many packages are delivered each day?

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Cheng, Andria. ( 2019, Dec 12). Amazon Ships 2.5 Billion Packages A Year, With Billions More Coming, In A Major Threat To UPS And FedEx. Retrieved from

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With Amazon building its own delivery fleet, Morgan Stanley finds it could beat UPS and FedEx in US ... [+]
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Amazon, the big retail-industry disruptor, is about to deliver a big upset in the $900 billion U.S. logistics sector, investment bank Morgan Stanley has found in a nine-year study.

As of August, Amazon had delivered 46% of U.S. packages bought on its e-commerce platform through Amazon Logistics, the internal delivery arm it started in late 2014, more than double the 20% figure just a year earlier, Morgan Stanley said in the report published Thursday. In total, Amazon Logistics is already shipping over 2.5 billion packages annually in the U.S., just shy of the 3 billion packages FedEx delivers in the U.S. but still only about half of the 4.7 billion UPS has, Morgan Stanley estimated.

But that equation could change in just a few years. Morgan Stanley, which analyzed about 70,000 Amazon transactions from 300 U.S. shoppers over nine years, said that by 2022, Amazon's U.S. package delivery volume could more than double, to 6.5 billion. That would beat UPS's 5 billion and FedEx's 3.4 billion package volume by that time, according to Morgan Stanley.

"It speaks to (Amazon's) ability to use density and technology to drive efficiency," Morgan Stanley said in the 38-page report, adding that Amazon's market share gains came with a fleet about one-fifth the size of its competitors'.

With Amazon doubling down on delivery capacity as it promises to make one-day Prime shipping the new norm, Morgan Stanley expects the Seattle giant to eventually take a page from its AWS cloud service and offer up its logistics prowess as a third party outside its e-commerce platform and beyond tests markets in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and New Jersey.

Why is it all but necessary for Amazon? The company's roughly $40 billion in annual shipping costs eat into about half of its retail gross profit, and efforts to manage that heavy cost are "crucial" to Amazon's future profitability, Morgan Stanley said.

Amazon in October reported a 16% decline in quarterly operating income, its first drop in two years, after its one-day-delivery-led shipping costs ballooned by 46%, to $9.6 billion, the fastest increase in at least two years and three times what Amazon made in operating profit.

As one-day shipping raises consumers' expectations on delivery time, that could serve "as a potential Trojan horse to drive long-term adoption of an eventual (Amazon) third-party shipping offering," Morgan Stanley said.

Amazon Logistics may have enough "spare" room by 2022 to move as many as 3.5 billion non-Amazon packages, or about 35% of the ex-Amazon U.S. e-commerce market, the firm estimates.

If that happens, the combined U.S. e-commerce package delivery share from UPS, FedEx and the U.S. Postal Service will slump to just about half in three to six years, from 82% this year and more than 95% just five years ago, according to Morgan Stanley.

"This is contrary to the general investor perception that (Amazon) is still in the very early stages of building out its logistics network and is too small to make a difference in the marketplace," Morgan Stanley said. "The already large and quick ramp of (Amazon Logistics) represent a large opportunity loss, and its significant growth ambitions are a competitive risk for incumbent parcel companies."

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Amazon, the big retail-industry disruptor, is about to deliver a big upset in the $900 billion U.S. logistics sector, investment bank Morgan Stanley has found in a nine-year study. As of August, Amazon had delivered 46% of U.S.

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Hanbury, Mary. ( 2020, Apr 16).Jeff Bezos boasts in letter to shareholders that 40 million Americans make less than any Amazon employee. Retrieved from https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-amazon-worker-earns-more-than-millions-of-americans-2020-4

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos boasted in a letter to shareholders that the lowest paid Amazon worker makes more than 40 million Americans in the US.

Amazon raised its minimum wage to $15 in 2018; the US federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.

Despite offering a competitive salary for workers, the company has come under scrutiny over its warehouse conditions, most recently in the context of safety during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Billionaire CEO Jeff Bezos talked up the perks of a job at Amazon in a letter to shareholders in on Thursday.

56-year-old Bezos proudly stated that the lowest paid Amazon worker makes more than 40 million Americans in the US, earning $15 an hour versus the US federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

Amazon raised its minimum wage to $15 in 2018.

Talking about the 2018 raise, Bezos said: "it had an immediate and meaningful impact on the hundreds of thousands of people working in our fulfillment centers. We want other big employers to join us by raising their own minimum pay rates, and we continue to lobby for a $15 federal minimum wage."

Despite its competitive wages, Amazon has continued to come under scrutiny over the treatment of its workers.

At present, the narrative has been centered around its warehouse workers who are protesting conditions during the coronavirus pandemic, saying they are at high risk of catching the virus.

Amazon has repeatedly defended the working conditions in its warehouses, however. In a blog post online, which it continues to update, the company outlines the measures it is taking to protect workers. These include "enhanced cleaning and social distancing measures," temperature checks, and masks for workers.

Since March, Amazon has hired 100,000 new workers to cope with the surge in demand and has plans to hire a further 75,000 more.

In the letter, Bezos highlighted two recent hires, who had recently lost their jobs or been furloughed because of the pandemic. He said that Amazon is "happy" to hire workers until "things return to normal, and either their former employer can bring them back or new jobs become available."

He continued: "We've welcomed Joe Duffy, who joined after losing his job as a mechanic at Newark airport and learned about an opening from a friend who is an Amazon operations analyst. Dallas preschool teacher Darby Griffin joined after her school closed on March 9th and now helps manage new inventory. We're happy to have Darby with us until she can return to the classroom."

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Jeff Bezos boasts in letter to shareholders that 40 million Americans make less than any Amazon employee

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos boasted in a letter to shareholders that the lowest paid Amazon worker makes more than 40 million Americans in the US. Amazon raised its minimum wage to $15 in 2018; the US federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.