Thursday, May 8, 2014

Amazon Expands Sunday Delivery To Texas

Texas is the major beneficiary of an expansion this morning by Amazon.com, which says it will start delivering orders from the company on Sundays--thanks to a partnership with the United States Postal Service--across six cities in Texas. Amazon said it will start immediately delivering packages on Sunday in Austin, College Station, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Waco -- along with nine other cities across the US -- as an expansion of a Sunday delivery program which had previously only been available in Los Angeles and New York. The USPS is using the Sunday delivery for Amazon as a way to try to gain some market share from UPS and FedEx, and to help stem declining volumes at the post office.