I fully expect Amazon to purchase UPS or FedEx and do just this. Amazon has to much on the line when it comes to shipping and as things stand now the entire process is inefficient. Amazon would be looking at $MM in savings by integrating one of the major international shipping companies.
The individual consumer will only benefit from Amazon's customer service influence when it comes to shipping procedure and policies.
First thing I noticed when reading about this on the Google+ Page was I couldn't click the date:time link and add the event to my gCal. Probably not a good event launch when it highlights an obvious product fault.
The individual consumer will only benefit from Amazon's customer service influence when it comes to shipping procedure and policies.