Amazon Developing "On My Way" App to Cut Down On Shipping Costs
In recent years, it has become clear that Amazon wants to achieve many great goals in the very near future. Just last year, one of the hot topics regarding Amazon was whether or not they would be using drones to deliver packages straight to your door. While that matter remains unresolved for the time being, the company has come up with a new plan called On My Way. The idea behind On My Way is rather simple and ingenious at the same time. There are so many different Amazon customer sin the world, so why not use them to deliver Amazon packages to other customers? In order to make this idea a....
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