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Delivery is a huge portion of Amazon's costs, and most of that cost is the last mile of the delivery. What are the biggest costs of last-mile delivery? Human labor costs and fuel. What's Amazon putting money into? Self-driving vehicles (less human labor time) and electric vans.

Bias note: I work for Amazon, but not in that department.



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