The delivery centers allow drivers who typically work for contractors hired by the online retailing giant to pick up orders and deliver them to customers in as little as one to two hours through Amazon Prime. Petersburg and 8824 E Adamo Drive in Tampa due to the end of its business relationship with Amazon. It also is shutting down operations at Amazon’s delivery stations at 9900 18th St. The Texas-based company plans to cut 108 jobs - 100 of them for couriers - in St.
Locally, Express Parcel Service is the latest logistics company to notify state officials of pending layoffs.
Two years into an effort to build up its own delivery network, Amazon is cutting ties with some small logistics firms, and that’s setting up a wave of driver layoffs around the Tampa Bay area and beyond. Express Parcel Service’s cutbacks in Tampa and St.
