{"id":177040,"date":"2020-01-14T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/14\/how-convenient-3\/"},"modified":"2020-01-14T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T00:41:00","slug":"how-convenient-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/14\/how-convenient-3\/","title":{"rendered":"How Convenient"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Now that the big holiday shipping season has ended, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/amazon-lifts-its-ban-on-fedex-ground-for-third-party-prime-shipments-11579031034\">Amazon has re-certified Federal Express Ground for shipping Amazon Marketplace products<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2019\/12\/paging-john-sherman-please-come-to.html\">noted before<\/a>, this is all about Amazon expanding its monopoly(ies):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The online retailer on Tuesday notified its third-party merchants that they could once again use FedEx\u2019s Ground network to ship orders placed under Amazon\u2019s Prime membership program, nearly a month after imposing a ban on the service because of performance issues. <\/p>\n<p>The move ends a standoff between Amazon and onetime shipping partner FedEx, whose Ground network was blocked for the final rush before Christmas and several weeks thereafter. <\/p>\n<p>An Amazon spokesman said FedEx Ground has been reinstated for Prime shipments fulfilled by third-party sellers now that the services are consistently meeting the retailer\u2019s on-time delivery requirements. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was not a performance issue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the big holiday shipping season has ended, Amazon has re-certified Federal Express Ground for shipping Amazon Marketplace products. As I&#8217;ve noted before, this is all about Amazon expanding its monopoly(ies): The online retailer on Tuesday notified its third-party merchants that they could once again use FedEx\u2019s Ground network to ship orders placed under &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[617,365,368,364,479,471],"class_list":["post-177040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-amazon","tag-business","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-monopoly","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}