Amazon set to become the largest delivery service in the US
UPS and FedEx could soon be beat at their own game by Amazon as the ecommerce giant is set to become the largest package delivery service in the US next year. As reported by CNBC , the company's CEO of its worldwide consumer business Dave Clark spoke with the news outlet in an interview on Squawk Box in which he revealed that Amazon is poised to overtake its longstanding rivals in the shipping business, saying: “We expect we will be one of the largest carriers in the world by the end of this year. I think we’ll probably be the largest package delivery carrier in the U.S. by the time we get to the end of the year, if not in early ’22.” This means that we'll likely see even more Amazon delivery trucks on the road during next year's Black Friday , Cyber Monday and Amazon Prime Day events. Becoming a delivery service While Amazon originally relied on third-party delivery services to ship its products out to consumers, the company began building up its logistics and f...