Amazon hit its fastest Prime delivery speeds ever so far this year in the USA and around the world, with more than 5 billion items arriving the same or next day globally. This is an increase of more than 30% year over year.

Our accelerating delivery speeds are helping both Prime members and sellers, with the majority of these five billion items delivered on behalf of sellers who usedFulfilment by Amazon.

We achieved faster speeds by focusing on three key initiatives:

• Expanding our Same-Day Delivery network so we can get products to customers even quicker, with Same-Day Delivery in more than 120 USA metro areas.
• Shortening the distance our deliveries have to travel to reach customers by regionalising our fulfilment network.
• Leveraging advanced machine learning algorithms to predict product demand and improve our inventory placement.

We’ve been able to deliver our vast selection of products at even faster speeds while continuing to improve safety. This was possible because our employees and delivery partners who are picking, packing, and driving to customers’ houses are doing the exact same thing whether an order arrives the same day, next day, or in two days. The speed improvements come primarily from regionalising our network and placing products closer to customers.

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