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Your next delivery from Amazon could be delivered in 1 hour by bike!

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Amazon has a reputation for some extremely fast shipping deliveries, having announced testing of 1-hour delivery for shipments just earlier this year via drone deliveries called Amazon Prime Air, for certain items to be delivered within the hour in specific locations where the shipping option would be supported, if they can get the government to approve the use of drones over U.S. airspace for e-commerce. Now the WSJ reports that Amazon is going to be setting up deliveries by bike messenger for items requested and paid for in the one-hour shipping option for purchases within New York City. Having read this, is anyone else having memory flashes of watching that movie Premium Rush? No? I must be the only one.


The bike messengers will apparently be setting up shop and running the operations out of Amazon’s West 34th street warehouse, where Amazon has reportedly retrofitted the building to hold a lounge for the messengers to relax and wait in between deliveries. For now Amazon is merely doing Time Trial testing to see how fast the messengers can make it to certain addresses around the city, snap a photo and send it, and then return to the warehouse destination. The bike messengers are said to work shifts that last around 8 hours and will receive a $15 an hour pay wage, which is none too shabby for racing around the city delivering packages on a bike, but we suppose that also depends on how many hours they would end up working a week. The new service will be called Amazon Prime Now, a faster version of their already speedy Amazon Prime shipping service which gives consumers delivery of items in one or two business day’s time. The idea behind this delivery option for consumers is a way for Amazon to better compete with local retailers where people have that instant gratification of buying something as opposed to ordering online.



Source: http://www.androidheadlines.com/2014/12/amazon-reportedly-looking-1-hour-delivery-via-bike-messenger-new-york-city.html

This is very cool and in some ways vetter than the drones. Generates more jobs and a kid fresh out of high school is more likely to say he works for Amazon making deliveries as well.
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The nearest Amazon deployment center is actually an hour away here in Patterson, CA. They should do it here.

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What If the guy falls, and then he brakes your new GTX 980, I think this is a bad, bad idea

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So they went to premium bike delivery because drones were not approved

Generates more jobs as well, you get paid for peddling a bike and you get a work out!

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Makes more jobs as well, you get paid for peddling a bike and you get a work out!

where do I apply xD

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You'd never see this level of service with the USPS and their dodgy late tracking updates and failure to even knock on your door to deliver your bloody packages.

 

 

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That's a pretty decent idea. Sure to have issues, but oh well.

 

Wait till someone starts mugging the bikers

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Generates more jobs as well, you get paid for peddling a bike and you get a work out!

Win win. You get speedy service and a free workout!

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i live in saskatoon i i doubt it will be here, and there is snow all over the place here

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What If the guy falls, and then he brakes your new GTX 980, I think this is a bad, bad idea

what if the delivery company throws your parcel into the back of a van and don't take care of it? i think thats a bad bad idea...

 

if anything happend like that though im sure they would alow you to return it or wouldn't deliver 

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what if the delivery company throws your parcel into the back of a van and don't take care of it? i think thats a bad bad idea...

 

if anything happend like that though im sure they would alow you to return it or wouldn't deliver

  

What If the guy falls, and then he brakes your new GTX 980, I think this is a bad, bad idea

I would assume whatever's being delivered is going to be in a hardshell case. Just like the drones.
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I'm interested.. Except for the fact they'd be going from Indiana to the middle of Michigan.. Think that's more than an hour especially on a bike.

 

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Whenever I order anything off prime I always get a completely unmarked car like a little Corsa or Ford Focus pull up and they literally only have my package in their car

 

its strange

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What If the guy falls, and then he brakes your new GTX 980, I think this is a bad, bad idea

 

   I would assume whatever's being delivered is going to be in a hardshell case. Just like the drones.

 

I would assume that the guy can actually drive a bicycle. I can't even remember the last time I fell with a bike, that doesn't happen that often. It's the same as saying: "What if the delivery truck gets in an accident?"

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I would assume that the guy can actually drive a bicycle. I can't even remember the last time I fell with a bike, that doesn't happen that often. It's the same as saying: "What if the delivery truck gets in an accident?"

Indeed, the chances are the same. Equal chance of you packages getting delayed, but i would assume by bike the delay would be much smaller of course.

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The nearest Amazon deployment center is actually an hour away here in Patterson, CA. They should do it here.

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In Ireland? LOL

 

It can take a week or more with 2 day delivery.

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What If the guy falls, and then he brakes your new GTX 980, I think this is a bad, bad idea

GPUs are well packed and protected in their original box, adding extra pacmaging from amazon, the bike itself would have to land on the box (pretty unlikely).

People handling parcels in parcel sorting warehouses could do more dmg. I worked in one and we were throwing stuff left and right. There i realised putting "fragile" on a box means shit :D

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where do I apply xD

Requirement #1 - Be able to actually bike for 8 hrs. (Its actually killer on your legs uphill and 30 minutes of incline @ 20° makes my legs feel like limp spaggetti.)

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Requirement #1 - Be able to actually bike for 8 hrs. (Its actually killer on your legs uphill and 30 minutes of incline @ 20° makes my legs feel like limp spaggetti.)

:( welp I'll stick with my job

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:( welp I'll stick with my job

I'm not saying you couldn't do it. ;)

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