Operator glossary
Amazon Shipping (parcel delivery)
Amazon's parcel carrier for your non-Amazon orders — the vans that deliver FBA packages picking up your FBM and DTC parcels too, relaunched in the US as a UPS/FedEx alternative.
Amazon Shipping (relaunched US 2023) sells parcel delivery on Amazon's last-mile network to merchants: pickups, multi-day ground service, competitive base rates without the surcharge sprawl legacy carriers built (no residential or fuel-surcharge stacking in the same pattern). It integrates with major platforms and, for Amazon orders, feeds tracking natively.
For FBM sellers it doubles as metric protection — an Amazon-integrated label writes valid tracking by construction and behaves predictably against OTDR. Coverage is metro-weighted; the standard play is rate-shopping it inside a multi-carrier stack (Veeqo or your shipping software) rather than single-carrier loyalty.
The numbers
- Relaunched US 2023: pickups + ground parcel on Amazon's last-mile network, simplified surcharge structure.
- Metro-weighted coverage; strongest used inside a multi-carrier rate shop, with native tracking for Amazon orders.