Amazon wants to use customers to deliver packages

Amazon is working on a mobile app that will reward existing customers of the web store if they deliver packages locally. With this delivery method, Amazon believes it can further reduce delivery costs.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the mobile app is currently under development codenamed “On My Way.” In addition to the fact that ordinary citizens can deliver packages in certain cases, Amazon is also thinking of temporarily storing packages in stores, for example. Amazon does not want to confirm the report of the American business newspaper.

It is not yet certain whether Amazon will actually introduce the On My Way app in the US. Also, the necessary practical problems would have to be overcome to enable the delivery of parcels by customers, such as preventing theft and arranging liability.

Amazon believes a system to reward customers who deliver packages can further reduce delivery costs, one of the most important costs for online stores. The company has previously announced plans to use drones to deliver packages, while Amazon is sending bicycle couriers on the road in some US cities to serve Prime Now customers within an hour or, on a trial basis, close deals. with taxi companies to deliver packages.