Report: Amazon testing taxi cabs to speed up deliveries

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Still smarting from shipment delays last Christmas, Amazon has been testing taxi cabs to deliver packages to customers in Los Angeles and San Francisco, according to a report.

Amazon has been using taxi-haling app Flywheel to fulfill orders in those cities this fall, reports The Wall Street Journal . The online retail giant is aiming to speed shipments and avoid the sort of snafus that plagued partners FedEx and UPS in the 2013 holiday season, according to the report.

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Under the program, Amazon paid Flywheel cabbies about $5 per package and loaded the cars with as many as 10 packages bound for a single ZIP code, the report says. Read more...

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