{"id":595990,"date":"2026-05-04T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=595990"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:50:00","slug":"fedex-ups-slide-after-amazon-opens-freight-network-to-all-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=595990","title":{"rendered":"FedEx, UPS Slide After Amazon Opens Freight Network To All Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">FedEx, UPS Slide After Amazon Opens Freight Network To All Businesses<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Shares of transportation and logistics giants <strong>FedEx and UPS dropped in premarket trading<\/strong> after Amazon debuted <strong>Amazon Supply Chain Services<\/strong>, opening its freight network to sellers far beyond the Amazon marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon said ASCS is a move to &#8220;<strong>open its freight, distribution, fulfillment, and parcel shipping capabilities to businesses of all types and sizes.&#8221;<\/strong> It gives companies outside the Amazon marketplace access to a global delivery network with two- to five-day delivery and 24\/7 service.<\/p>\n<p><a data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2026-05-04_09-07-54.png?itok=e3q3OuAc\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2026-05-04_09-07-54.png?itok=e3q3OuAc\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"b8632b6c-caff-43c2-a678-36a4ff78293a\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" height=\"274\" width=\"500\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2026-05-04_09-07-54.png?itok=e3q3OuAc\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With this launch, Amazon is expanding its third-party logistics capacity to support businesses in industries such as healthcare, automotive, manufacturing, and retail,&#8221; Amazon noted.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon said the move mirrors its AWS playbook: build infrastructure for its own operations, prove it internally, then sell it externally.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>This story may sound familiar<\/strong>. Amazon built another major offering\u2014cloud infrastructure\u2014for the same reason: to run its own business better. And then Amazon started selling it. That&#8217;s how Amazon Web Services (AWS) was born, and it&#8217;s transformed how the world builds and runs software. Now, Amazon is ready to do that for the supply chain. -AMZN<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Following the ASCS news, <strong>FedEx and UPS dropped in premarket trading, both down around 4%.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Snag_3f827db4_0.png?itok=ktW70TmP\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Snag_3f827db4_0.png?itok=ktW70TmP\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"dce00ddb-6692-4719-bf98-41fd752e47c9\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" height=\"279\" width=\"500\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/Snag_3f827db4_0.png?itok=ktW70TmP\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amazon is bringing the infrastructure, intelligence, and scale of its supply chain services\u2014proven over decades\u2014to businesses everywhere, much like Amazon Web Services did for cloud computing,&#8221; said Peter Larsen, vice president of ASCS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" lang=\"\" class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Mon, 05\/04\/2026 &#8211; 09:50<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2026-05-04_09-07-54.png?itok=e3q3OuAc\" title=\"FedEx, UPS Slide After Amazon Opens Freight Network To All Businesses\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FedEx, UPS Slide After Amazon Opens Freight Network To All Businesses Shares of transportation and logistics giants FedEx and UPS dropped in premarket trading after Amazon debuted Amazon Supply Chain Services, opening its freight network to sellers far beyond the Amazon marketplace. Amazon said ASCS is a move to &#8220;open its freight, distribution, fulfillment, and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=595990\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FedEx, UPS Slide After Amazon Opens Freight Network To All Businesses<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":595991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/595991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}