"The postal service still has miles to go before becoming Amazon's courier of choice. The pilot program is limited to delivering a maximum of 200 packages per day to customers of 1-800-Flowers.com's sister brands, which sell popcorn, cookies, chocolate and gift baskets. Friess says the USPS is planning to add more retailers soon. If the test is successful, which he says the agency believes it will be, Metro Post will roll out to other large markets across the country.

Friess declined to speculate on whether the USPS' 214,000 trucks — what the agency calls the world's largest civilian fleet — could end up in the service of Amazon.

But he said he believed the USPS will start to look increasingly attractive to other companies exploring the same-day option: "We'd never close the door on ways to expand our revenue.""

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/07/tech/web/amazon-save-us-postal/index.html


I have to say this would probably help resolve many of the USPS revenue issues. Streamlining and changing some infrastructure issues within it would make this a good thing.

I don't normally like to comment about this type of news but it occurs to me that this could be the break that the postal service has been looking for. This would possibly keep the cost down for the regular consumer and if properly structured with Amazon's same day service some consumer delivery costs could be cut by using the USPS system, and save it for our future.