Amazon Taps India For its Shipping Service Expansion

Amazon Shipping has officially arrived in India this year following the company's plans to expand the service abroad.

According to the reports, the Seattle-based tech giant is "quietly" offering its transportation and logistic network to businesses and third-party merchants in the country.

With the success of the model test in the United States previously, Amazon aims to achieve the same formula for a different market.

Amazon Shipping Goes to India

In a report by Tech Crunch on Tuesday, Nov. 8, Amazon will attempt to run its Amazon Shipping service in a foreign market. This time, the service will be catering to the daily needs of Indian customers.

The e-commerce firm highlights that Amazon Shipping boasts the lowest logistics cost while generating "extensive reach and the highest reliability" it can offer.

The company also notes on its website that Amazon Shipping will attend to the customers' concerns by picking up their parcels seven days a week and delivering them right away.

Amazon saw that India could be a sustainable market in the long run. That's why it ended up investing more than $6.5 billion in this country alone.

While some companies offer a different branding on their shipping service, Amazon says it's offering its service with "competitive rates and support."

Customers who want to save money can request Amazon to deliver their items on weekends since it's a no-charge delivery day. What's more, is that they can cancel the service anytime they want.

Amazon Shipping Limitation

Amazon writes on its website that it has collaborated with Clickpost, Vinculum, Shiprocket, Easyecom, and Unicommerce for the initial test of the delivery service.

Before officially making the service available in India, the archived pages suggest that Amazon is already doing an early test for some months in the country.

The arrival of Amazon Shipping means that the shipping competition in India will be much stiffer than before. As such, local service providers such as Ecom Express and Delhivery need to revamp their service to stand out among other competitors.

With regards to the type of products covered by the service, Economic Times, an India-based news outlet, reported that it applies to all types of products except for hazardous items.

It should be noted that you can only place up to 99 items per order via the Shipping service.

With the launch of Amazon Shipping, the company is now ready to overtake other local firms in India. In the US, the e-commerce giant looks forward to rivaling Shopify and other brands when it comes to logistics service.

Meanwhile, a report from Business Today notes that Amazon has rolled out Prime Video Mobile Edition in India for a yearly price of Rs 599 or $7.34.

The mobile-only plan targets all the mobile users who are looking for a low-cost subscription for their streaming needs.

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Written by Joseph Henry