Amazon wants $10,000 from you to start your own Prime delivery service

[Setalpz]

News story here:

Amazon wants you to start a business to deliver its packages

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.

[Chaleur]

Can I use my own fleet of drones?

[2BeFixt]

Amazon wants $10,000 FROM you… to start your own Prime delivery service

[RockView]

Isn’t that the model FedEx uses in rural areas?

[2BeFixt]

Amazon wants $10,000 FROM you… to start your own Prime delivery service

…And I forgot to add:
When they FEEL like it, they will “award” you with delivery jobs. When you tell them you aren’t getting enough work, they will make you a “Preferred Provider”, and you won’t get any more work than before.

[Mas_Des_Bories]

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.

[Skeeter]

With a fleet of 40 vans and 100 employees, you can earn $300,000 a year, per Amazon

Did an official Amazon employee make that statement or just some reporter chumming for drama.

What I seen made no mention of the terms.

[Setalpz]

It’s in the article:

The business owners will be able to make as much as $300,000 a year in profit running a full-sized fleet of 40 vans and managing 100 employees, according to Amazon. They’ll be plugged into Amazon’s software, which will determine where the drivers go.

[Caan]

If you read the article, you can find the link that gives you the information.

[Skeeter]

I did, another source that I consider a little more credible stated the specifics have not been released yet.

[Caan]

Did you click on the link from Amazon Logistics? All the details known are in that link. You can also sign up for additional information.

Are you saying that you found a source more credible than Amazon regarding press releases from Amazon?

[HAL]

Putting in the effort to start a business with dozens of employees and a fleet of trucks, that’s entirely dependent of the good will of one customer, Amazon, for it’s survival? I’ll pass…

[Skeeter]

Did you click on the link from Amazon Logistics? All the details known are in that link. You can also sign up for additional information.

No I did not, thank you for sharing that.

[bustedmouse]

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.

[Skeeter]

Are you saying that you found a source more credible than Amazon regarding press releases from Amazon?

I meant it regarding news sources, I initially read it on Fox then CNN. I don’t believe very much of anything posted unless its directly cited as coming from the source.

[Caan]

You said you read the article and clicked the link for the source. The only link was from Amazon Logistics.

[Skeeter]

You said you read the article and clicked the link for the source. The only link was from Amazon Logistics.

I just found the link from logistics Amazon.

Their was a link on here today from CNN, it might have been in another thread about this.

[love_the_ra]

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

[RockView]

Do they have to be real trucks

Hybrid Tonka Trucks

[Skeeter]

Do they have to be real trucks

I bet they already have more applicants than they could ever imagine.

Gee, who pays the vehicle repair bills?? We have / had pick ups, mid size trucks and semi tractor / trailer, all I can say is OUCH!