Amazon to spend $4 billion on small town delivery expansion

Trucks travel through a flooded road while exiting from an Amazon delivery station in Carlstadt, New Jersey, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020. "At a time where many logistics providers are backing away from serving rural customers because of cost to serve, we are stepping up our investment to make their lives easier and better," Udit Madan, Amazon's senior vice president of worldwide operations, said in a statement. Once the expansion is complete, more than 200 delivery stations will be added, tripling the size of Amazon's rural delivery network, the company said. The move will bring products closer to customers, and cut average delivery times "in half," Amazon added. Amazon said Wednesday it plans to spend roughly $4 billion by the end of 2026 on expanding deliveries in rural towns as part of a push to bring faster shipping times to more parts of the U.S. When the new facilities are open, Amazon said it aims to create about 170 jobs at each site. Amazon has been working to speed u ... Read full article.