the altantics

When you order something online, getting that thing from the warehouse into your hot little hands is hard.

Internet commerce is designed to obscure that difficulty—packages are supposed to alight on your welcome mat as though dropped there by the delivery fairy.

-but challenges persist, and they are only getting worse. There are just too many doorsteps, and too many things that need to alight on them.

At the peak of demand, a single holiday season in the United States involves billions of deliveries, all ferried by hand to purchasers within days of dispatch.

 

What is TURE about the relationship between “peak of demand” and “ single holiday season”

(A) Identical

(B) Contrary

Which title could best describe the passage?

(A) Challenges of going online shopping

(B) The rise of online shopping

(C) Logistical challenges of online shopping delivery

(D) Rising demands of online shopping

In the shipping business, this end portion of a product’s journey from manufacturer to consumer is what’s regarded as “last mile.”

 

(A) considered

(B) regarded

(C) viewed

(D) deemed

(E) thought

It is an enormous problem without any immediate solution.

Retailers and logistics firms boast of investments in automation and artificial intelligence and delivery robots, but right now nothing can meaningfully replace a guy driving a van to your address and walking your box to your front door.

​To deal with this(3), large internet retailers, and especially Amazon, have spent years devising creative ways to bolster their delivery armies.

Diverging a new way of logistic

signing high-volume deals with USPS and UPS, contracting with local logistics services to use their fleets, paying gig workers per package to make deliveries in their own car. Now Amazon is set to take the next step in enlisting every human possible to bring you your stuff; your online-shopping impulse buy might be delivered by your local florist or dry cleaner.

Earlier this week, the company announced that it would expand its Hub Delivery pilot program, which contracts with local businesses to deliver shipments of Amazon packages using the businesses’ staff and cars, to 23 states and some of the nation’s biggest cities, including New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle.

To make it work, the company is trying to recruit 2,500 small businesses to the program—“no delivery experience required,” the Hub Delivery website tells prospective applicants. As part of this Amazon side hustle, businesses will turn their existing employees into package couriers, delivering up to 50 parcels a day.

​To make Hub Delivery pilot program work, the company is trying to recruit 2,500 small businesses to the program.

​When S+V, S+V.

​當你線上點餐時，從外送員中拿到你的餐點就是完成了你的購物。

When you order food online, getting your food from the delivery person is the end portion of your shopping journey. / completing your shopping.

當你在線上買東西時，拿到那個從倉庫來到你溫熱的手上的東西是很難的。​

When you order something online, getting that thing from the warehouse into your hot little hands is hard.

​Earlier..., S announced that S+V.

在月初，政府宣布他會限制塑膠袋的販賣。

Earlier this month, the government announced that it would restrict the sale of plastic bags.

在這禮拜初，公司宣布他會擴大它的HDpilot企劃。​

Earlier this week, the company announced that it would expand its Hub Delivery pilot program.