So let's say you order a widget from Amazon, and they have it (or quickly get it) in stock at one of their fulfillment centers only 40 miles away. They box it up and put a USPS prepaid label on it and drop it at the nearest postal facility for local delivery.

BUT… what if that label says it originated at a fulfillment center 1500 miles away? The USPS gets to charge for handling the package the entire distance. Even though they give Amazon a discount rate, they still come out ahead as they only have to do local delivery.

Benefit for Amazon? Cover for their illegal long haul transport operation.

>>9561475

1. It's illegal.

Well then I'm sure it couldn't be happening. (sarc)

1. All USPS is tracked end to end.

It is? By who?

"Amazon performs a fair amount of the shipping work itself, arranging the packages by Zip code and carrier route and dropping them off on pallets at one of 20 Postal Service distribution centers across the country."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/04/04/is-the-post-office-making-or-losing-money-delivering-amazon-packages/

>>9561628

Sire tracking is available. Doesn't mean it's true.

Tracking is automatically derived from the label creation. If Amazon makes a label saying it started in Seattle, that's what tracking will show.