Amazon starts Sunday delivery with US Postal Service
 

Sunday delivery started this weekend in the Los Angeles and New York metropolitan areas and Amazon plans to expand it to a large portion of the U.S. population in 2014

Amazon.com unveiled a new partnership with the U.S. Postal Service to deliver online orders from the world's largest Internet retailer on Sunday for the first time.

The service started this weekend in the Los Angeles and New York metropolitan areas and Amazon plans to expand it to a large portion of the U.S. population in 2014, including Dallas, Houston, New Orleans and Phoenix.

Amazon is not charging extra for the new service, so members of the company's popular Prime service will be able to buy products on Friday and get them by Sunday for free. The service also applies to non-Prime members, who can get free five to eight-day shipping on orders of at least $35 (up from $25 previously).

Amazon has been spending billions of dollars building new warehouses around the world so it can deliver products more quickly. The company hopes that adding Sunday as a delivery option will generate more sales.

"The three big pieces of growth for us are selection, lower prices and speed," said Dave Clark, vice president of worldwide operations and customer service. "Adding an additional day is all about delivery speed. An Amazon customer can order a backpack and a Kindle for their child and be packing it up on Sunday for school on Monday."

The deal is also a welcome new source of revenue for the financially struggling U.S. Postal Service, which has been trying tap into the growth of online shopping.

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That's cool, although it doesn't apply to where I live yet. Same as fresh.amazon which is fresh groceries but so far only in Seattle and LA I guess.
Prime is already nice. When I order on Saturday's I receive on Tuesday morning which is certainly not too shabby for a weekend order already.

I saw this - just in time for Christmas.

Shopping has changed. Why go to the store when you can shop from your couch and have it shipped to your house.

The USPS failed to catch on to this, and instead everyone is shipping through FedEx and UPS.

I read a story a little while ago that said if it wasn't for Amazon, UPS would have been out of business by now.

Seems like USPS will be a decent choice to help save the mail system, but my guess is it will fail because people aren't going to want to pay the extra price for weekend delivery.