Amazon Shipping is built to help your business grow

Amazon Shipping is powered by the same transportation network we built to serve our own retail customers. When you’ve spent years obsessing over the end customer’s delivery experience, you develop a different perspective on what a shipping service should look like.

Traditional shipping service providers built their networks around business-to-business logistics. We built ours around the person waiting at home for a package. That perspective shapes how we approach every aspect of our service, including how we think about pricing.

We keep fuel surcharges aligned with real fuel expenses, so, when fuel costs drop, our surcharges drop too. Fuel prices are climbing significantly, up 51% from one year ago. Diesel is now $5-$7 per gallon and expected to continue rising. Most shipping service providers are responding by increasing surcharges, some by as much as 26% in recent months.

Amazon Shipping bases our fuel surcharges on the actual cost of fuel. While that can mean higher surcharges when fuel prices rise, it also means we’ll lower those surcharges when fuel costs drop—unlike other shipping service providers who have decoupled their surcharges from actual expenses.

Your customers want delivery where it’s most convenient for them. We don’t charge extra to deliver to their homes, saving you up to $6.60 per package compared to other shipping service providers.

Most shipping service providers treat residential delivery as a premium service requiring an additional fee on top of base rates. This creates unpredictable costs when your customer mix shifts between business and residential addresses. We’ve eliminated additional residential surcharges because we believe your pricing shouldn’t change based on whether your customer is at a residential address. For businesses with primarily residential customers, like most ecommerce retailers, this represents substantial savings on packages sent.

Your customers expect their orders to arrive on Saturday and Sunday just as reliably as any weekday, and with Amazon Shipping, they do. Seven-day delivery is built into our pricing structure; that means no additional fees for weekend deliveries. We’ve built seven-day operations into our model because modern e-commerce doesn’t pause for the weekend, and your shipping service shouldn’t either.

Weekend pickups mean your customers won’t face a 48-72 hour delay waiting for orders to be scanned and picked up. This operational benefit directly impacts your customer experience. Orders placed Friday evening ship Saturday, not Monday. That’s 48-72 hours removed from your click-to-door time, with no additional fees. Other shipping service providers charge up to $28.70 per pickup for weekend service; we include it without additional surcharges.

Our rate structure is straightforward: package characteristics and your volume determine your rate. You don’t need a pricing analyst to understand what you’ll pay.

We put our customers first. We believe in transparent, predictable pricing designed to help your business grow, and shippers shouldn’t have to face surcharges that aren’t reflective of our costs. This is not a promotional offer or a temporary discount. It’s a structural decision rooted in how we approach pricing.

*based on recent EIA diesel prices

You know what you’ll pay, you can forecast accurately, and you can make pricing decisions for your customers based on your business strategy—not on what your shipping service provider decided to charge this quarter.

• BarkBox saved 8% on shipping costs after switching to Amazon Shipping, by eliminating additional residential surcharges and weekend fees, allowing them to reinvest in customer experience and product development.
• KiwiCo gained 4 extra sales days by leveraging seven-day pickup and delivery with no weekend surcharges—orders placed Friday evening now ship Saturday instead of waiting until Monday, cutting 48-72 hours from their click-to-door time.

These aren’t hypothetical benefits. They are measured outcomes from businesses that needed a shipping service provider built for the reality of modern e-commerce.

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