Amazon and the United States Postal Service are testing out a partnership to deliver fresh groceries. The company is already engaged in a 60 day trial to bring fresh groceries to the doorsteps of customers in San Francisco as part of its AmazonFresh service.
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USPS started working with Amazon on the program back in the first week of August. It involves delivering groceries in special insulated packages to customers between 3 a.m. and 7 a.m., a timeframe which, the postal service says, is one of the least busy for the post office.
If successful, the partnership could go national.
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A spokesperson for the post office told Reuters that the partnership would "determine if delivering groceries to residential and business addresses would be feasible from an operations standpoint and could be financially beneficial for the organization."
The USPS is infamously good at losing money (which is its own controversy), so a partnership with one of the most successful tech companies in Silicon Valley makes sense. Amazon already uses the post office for Sunday delivery.
The Post Office lost a hefty $2 billion between April and June of this year, which is over double the amount they lost in the same period last year.
Amazon, always coy, would only say "we are always looking for new and innovative ways to deliver packages to customers."
Apparently that includes drones as well as a failing national postal service.
