What courier does Amazon use in Australia

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Does anyone know if they will be using AusPost or a private courier company? I usually get stuff sent to an AusPost parcel locker as my house is a little difficult to access. Just wanna make sure I can enter my parcel locker as a valid delivery address

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It's Australia Post. I work there and just got an email from our GM announcing that Australia Post are Amazon's "primary delivery provider in Australia"

I looked for a press release on the AP website but there doesn't appear to be one as yet.

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Excellent, should be able to use parcel lockers then

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Please say they don’t use Fastway. They are beyond hopeless.

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I think I heard it was couriers please... Not the best but not the worst.

Edit : apparently they didn't end up partnering with couriers please. Early articles suggested they were but I guess it fell through

A worker at an Amazon shipping center in Schertz, Texas.

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Amazon began selling its in-house delivery service to third-party vendors in Australia on Tuesday, taking on a major logistical challenge in the continent that invented the expression "tyranny of distance".

Three months after opening in Australia, the world's number 1 online retailer said merchants could pay it to pack and ship their products through its new Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) program.

Its fast-shipping paid subscription club for shoppers, Prime, would follow by the middle of the year.

That means Amazon, not its thousands of Australian vendors, takes responsibility for meeting delivery estimates in a country of 24 million people spread over an island the size of the mainland United States, with little inland transport infrastructure.

Some Amazon shoppers in remote Outback settlements — places where doctors make house calls by airplane — have already complained about slower delivery times than that suggested by the company's website.

Though Amazon takes responsibility for FBA shipping, its main delivery partner is government-run Australia Post.

Australia Post declined to comment. The service has said it had its busiest month in December, when Amazon started in the world's twelfth-largest economy.

Amazon said its FBA service saved businesses time "as they will no longer need to individually purchase shipping materials, individually pack orders, and make multiple trips to the post office."

So far, Amazon has run its Australian business from a single warehouse outside Melbourne city, on the country's east coast where most of the population lives.

As with Canada, where it also launched its fulfillment service with only one warehouse, analysts now expect Amazon to open more warehouses to service far-flung Australian communities.

"Australia is big. It's a signal that they're going to build more," Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter said.

Marc Wulfraat, president of Montreal-based logistics consultancy MWPVL International, said it made sense for Amazon to open depots in Sydney, the country's most populous city, and Perth on the west coast.

"The logic is that Sydney and Perth will follow," he said.

Subscription fees from Prime would help offset any shipping losses that Amazon incurred, he added.

Shares of Australian brick-and-mortar non-food retailers were higher in mid-session trading, in line with the broader market.

Shares of the country's biggest stand-alone online retailer, Kogan.com, were down 4 percent.

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