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Amazon wants $10,000 from you to start your own Prime delivery service
News story here:
With a fleet of 40 vans and 100 employees, you can earn $300,000 a year, per Amazon
$250 a month per employee profit, or
$625 a month per vehicle profit
That’s very low profit for all of the risk and time you’d have to assume. Employee lawsuits, accidents, surging fuel costs, customer lawsuits, etc - all for a narrow profit margin.
I’m sure people will be tripping over themselves to do this.
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Amazon wants $10,000 FROM you… to start your own Prime delivery service
Seller_dxNiJ3wL98iWT
Isn’t that the model FedEx uses in rural areas?
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And not only that can you imagine how much fun it is to manage 40 employees who get no employee benefits?
I mean at $250 a month profit per employee for the small business owner, it’s impossible that they can provide benefits. Well unless they want to run the business as a non-profit.
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Did an official Amazon employee make that statement or just some reporter chumming for drama.
What I seen made no mention of the terms.
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From Amazon’s site they state that 20-40 vehicles will yield $1M-4.5M REVENUE and $75K-300K PROFIT.
https://logistics.amazon.com/marketing/site-terms#financial
They don’t explain or give examples of how they got these numbers and that these numbers are are projections only. I’m not even sure if this factors in a salary for you as the owner. If it’s anything like what our Fed Ex independents do, it’s not very much.
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hmm , cost of buying 40 Trucks = xxxx
Employees Costs = xxxx
Insurance on vehicles and Insurance on carrying parcels XXX
Vehicle expenses xxxx
Expenses I missed Xxx
Total Return on Investment = Jackpot . I’m in .
Now just to buy those 40 Trucks . Do they have to be real trucks
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what about “shrinkage”? Who pays for Insurance?
what about late deliveries harming your DDR “Delivery Defect Rate” lol at which time amazon can suspend the business you invested in
what a disaster waiting to happen
guess its better than drones though, right Jeff?
