This investment will grow the company’s rural delivery network footprint to over 200 delivery stations. According to Amazon, once the expansion is complete, its network will be able to deliver more than 1 billion more packages each year to customers living in over 13,000 postcodes covering 1,200,000 square miles – an area the size of Alaska, California and Texas combined.
Amazon opened its first rural delivery station in 2020. Three years later, it began scaling its small-town delivery network and has already experienced a 50 per cent improvement in delivery speed on average
