In other Amazon news this week — yes, there really is more! — the company said it planned to expand its army of delivery workers, announcing a program that helps people start businesses delivering packages for the e-commerce giant. Here’s the pitch: If you invest at least $10,000, you can operate a fleet of Amazon-branded vehicles and manage people who wear Amazon uniforms. Amazon estimates an owner could earn as much as $300,000 a year in profit operating a fleet of up to 40 vehicles.
It’s another effort by Amazon to build out its own delivery logistics. The company already runs Amazon Flex, a program that pays people $18 to $25 an hour to deliver packages from their own cars.
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