Amazon is offering US customers $10 for package pickup
Amazon is offering US customers $10 when they pick up their purchases instead of having them delivered. The company joins other retailers in doing so. The goal: Amazon wants to reduce its delivery costs by picking up products.
Amazon wants to pay its US customers $10 if they agree to pick up their purchases instead of having them delivered. That comes from a report by the news agency Reuters out.
With this so-called “pick-up campaign”, the US group is doing the same as other retailers who want to reduce their delivery costs due to falling demand.
Pickup Promotion: Amazon pays customers $10 to pick up purchases
Loud Reuters However, Amazon said the action is not a cost-cutting measure. The campaign only applies to customers who have never used Amazon Pick-up or have not used it in the past twelve months. In a statement, the company said:
We offer our customers a variety of ways to receive their packages, including delivery and collection options. The $10 Amazon pickup sale isn’t new.
However, Amazon did not say how long these or similar pick-up campaigns have been running. Reuters However, according to the US company, it recently contacted several customers by email and offered them $10 if they picked up orders over $25 instead of having them delivered.
Pick up Amazon packages in Germany
US shipping consultant Dean Maciuba also received such an offer via email. He told the news agency that increasing the use of Amazon pickup points is a great opportunity to reduce delivery costs.
How the information previously reported, the US company has previously started charging a $1 fee when customers return packages via UPS, despite the company’s pickup and return location being nearby.
In Germany, too, there have been such so-called Amazon Lockers for some time. These are similar to DHL’s Packstations and enable customers to choose Locker as the delivery and collection address.
So far, however, there is no bonus for picking up products in this country. However, in order to save costs, Amazon recently increased the minimum order value for free delivery
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