MORE than 3,200 drivers from at least eight different delivery companies are to lose their jobs with Amazon, say reports.
The news comes after the online shopping giant apparently informed multiple logistics firms it is to end key contracts with them.
The money-saving move will lead to the loss of at least 3,242 employees across the country, Buzzfeed reported tonight.
Over the past two years, the trillion dollar company has been actively switching deliveries to smaller and cheaper companies.
Amazon launched its huge delivery network as an alternative to UPS, FedEx, and the US Postal Service in 2014.
It relies on independent companies – rather than employ its own drivers – to ensure next-day deliveries.
At the beginning it worked with established logistics firms which ran thousands of routes at a time.
But since 2018, it has been shifting its contracts to work with smaller companies.
These often work from a single location and manage no more than a few dozen routes.
In October, the company also cut links with three large delivery firms leading to the loss of 2,000 jobs.
All had reportedly employed drivers which had been involved in fatal accidents.
“Sometimes the companies we contract with to deliver packages do not meet our bar for safety, performance or working conditions,” Amazon said at the time.
“When that happens we have a responsibility to terminate those relationships and work to find new partners.
"We care a lot about the communities where we operate and work hard to ensure there is zero or very little net job loss in these communities.”
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