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Amazon is pushing to quickly grow volume for its U.S. delivery offering through lower shipping rates for prospective customers, parcel pricing experts told Supply Chain Dive.
Amazon Shipping, the company's parcel delivery service now available to all customers, has offered proposals with prices competitive with or lower than FedEx and UPS, said multiple experts working with shippers in negotiating and handling shipping contracts.
Logistics data platform Loop is seeing clients save up to $6 per package by moving eligible residential volume to Amazon Shipping versus comparable FedEx and UPS services, Matt Sumowski, who works in strategic solutions at Loop, said on LinkedIn.
In an interview, Sumowski said Amazon Shipping's playbook has often involved enticing shippers with surcharge waivers and less complex pricing versus FedEx and UPS. He cited Amazon's offer to one of Loop's large retail clients using FedEx as an example.
