3,200 Jobs at Risk As Amazon Terminates Delivery Contractors

Once heavily dependent upon the U.S. Postal Service, FedEx, and UPS to deliver its packages to its customers, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is increasingly taking the business of shipping into its own hands. That's not necessarily good news for the people delivering the packages, however.

Instead of hiring and paying delivery drivers directly, Amazon prefers to work through a bevy of contractors to move its goods from warehouse to consumer, who are required to lease vans from Amazon and buy their insurance and manage their payrolls through providers Amazon directs. As Buzzfeed News reported today, the company especially prefers to work through a big bevy of small contractors -- companies that may be more dependent upon retaining Amazon as a customer and less inclined to balk at such requirements.  

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