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Forget drones. Amazon's Jeff Bezos needs lots of delivery guys

Amazon wants to build a network of independent couriers

Amazon wants to build a network of independent couriers
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Amazon wants to build a network of independent couriers

Bloomberg
Jeff Bezos captured the world’s imagination when he appeared on CBS’s “60 Minutes” and pledged to fill the skies with package delivery drones.
 
Five years on, Amazon.com’s chief executive officer is betting on decidedly more terrestrial technology: drivers. As in real people. Tens of thousands of them. High-tailing it through town in gas-slurping vans to leave packages on doorsteps just like the milk man, postal worker, UPS guy and pizza dude before them. Bezos this summer issued a call-to-arms to aspiring entrepreneurs, offering them a chance to earn $300,000 a year by starting their own businesses making Amazon deliveries.

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