Amazon: What Kind Of Mind Can You Deliver?

Amazon has tried various ways to deliver goods, and recently they have come to cooperate with trucks delivering newspapers every morning.

In Chicago, Amazon launched a pilot project to deliver the packages along the road at the same time delivering newspapers every morning.

The experiment was conducted by Amazon and Tribune, a local newspaper publisher in Chicago. Tribune printed the Chicago Tribune and the Losangeles times. Every day, Tribune Tribune's delivery drivers will deliver these two newspapers along the regular routes and other publications subscribed by residents.

Logistics has always been a business that electricity providers need to invest huge sums of money to do. These attempts to quickly deliver goods may not seem mature enough yet, but users who are accustomed to serving within two hours will not have the patience to wait for a package for another two months.

Because of the tax problem of the delivery clerk, the pilot project lasted only one to two weeks.

Amazon also contacted other newspaper publishers to try a similar delivery method, according to a Wall Street journal, citing sources familiar with the matter.

Although fewer newspapers have been ordered in recent years, these newspaper drivers still have to run all over the city's streets and streets every day, trying their best to deliver goods like this. Amazon is not the first time to do so.

In September 2014, Amazon began to cooperate with the United States postal service to produce fresh express business.

When these postal vehicles do not need to send mail, they will be pferred to distribute more than 50 thousand daily necessities, including food, dairy products, books, and video games, so as to ensure delivery at the latest the next morning.

Last April, Uber pilot UberRush in Manhattan: consumers shop on e-commerce applications and websites. When they check out, they choose Uber to deliver goods, then Uber will send bicycles to pick up and deliver goods.

Today, Uber is no longer satisfied with delivering goods as an occasional combination.

In Chicago and San Francisco, UberRush will become the official business of Uber.

At present, Uber's service will start from the fashion luxury brands of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York and the large retail stores in San Francisco.

For small business operators who can't invest in warehousing and logistics teams as large as electricity providers, crowdsourcing like Uber may be their only chance to fight against big business like Amazon and Jingdong.

In the first half of this year, Jingdong also launched a way of crowdsourcing logistics, using free manpower to deliver express, including square dance aunt.

And the city express service like flash delivery and neighbouring interest is also a method of crowdsourcing. The nearest distributor can slip out of the office lattices and send a single order.

In addition, there is Amazon's name on the list of e-commerce providers who want to make crowdsourcing.

They are planning to launch a mobile phone application to improve their logistics system.

The internally named On My Way project seems to be divided into two parts: on the one hand, Amazon will pay a fee for ordinary people to make them their temporary distributor; on the other hand, they also want to hire more physical retail stores as their own warehouses.

UAV delivery, not just the courier chasing the aircraft running.

In 2013, Amazon announced the "UAV delivery" project, Amazon Prime Air, although the test of UAV delivery has not been smooth due to FAA regulation, but a patent document recently published depicts a magnificent dream of UAV delivery.

They intend to make the UAV link with each other and share real-time information in different regions, including local weather, traffic and obstacles, and allow the UAV to determine whether the destination is suitable for flight, landing and storage.

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The new system also plans to allow UAVs to receive real-time location data from customers' mobile phones and allow customers to choose where to send UAVs.

Of course, the electricity supplier trying to deliver the UAV is not only the Amazon family, but so far most of them are still in the experimental stage.

At the beginning of this year, Taobao and Yuantong Express Co operated three days UAV automatic delivery in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

Tat this UAV can last up to 14 minutes and minutes at 700g items.

We still need to sign face to face, so we can fill a picture of a courier riding a bicycle with a UAV.

Due to the restriction of urban policy, it is not very realistic to promote the delivery of UAV in the center of the city.