In the near term probably wouldn't alter much. If they can offset Amazon's revenue with new revenue sources, great! If it allows smaller retailers to better compete with Amazon, even better.

logistics system. And once that is fully scaled, the others will just be competing for scraps.

UPS surely understands that is the game. And that is probably why UPS is opening its system. They all need to team up against Amazon.

By the same token, maybe Wal*Mart, Target, Home Depot, Costco, CVS, Walgreens, and others need to team up on the warehousing side.

for final delivery.

This article seems to be from Amazon's standpoint that they may be miffed that other retailers may be able to narrow the gap with retailer Amazon on their shipping advantage.

to bumfuck wyoming or your farm somewhere 15 miles in the middle of nowhere.

That would be unprofitable. They would mail that unprofitable stuff through the post office,

another crushing blow to USPS. I used to be a letter carrier. They've been trying to crush USPS as long as I can remember (and I'm pretty old!)

So that's what these company's will do. Deliver all the profitable stuff and leave the shit mail to USPS, who by law has to deliver to

all those addresses that are not only unprofitable but lose money.

Another brick in the wall.

that UPS, Fed Ex, and Amazon DUMPING their packages on the USPS for the very expensive "Last Mile Delivery",... in all of Rural America is hurting the USPS financially not helping it........

UPS Mail Innovations: https://www.ups.com/us/en/supplychain/logistics-solutions/mail-innovations Note that USPS raised rates and UPS passed those along to their customers.

I'm not sure what Amazon is doing differently unless they are contracting with USPS to do everything from pick up at the Amazon warehouse to sorting and final delivery.

When did we go corporate?