Amazon Reaches New High Of 268,900 Employees -- Skyrocketing 47% In Just One Year (geekwire.com)

Amazon remains one of the biggest attractors of talent worldwide. During its quarterly earnings, the company said it hired 23,700 employees in the second quarter -- making the total employee headcount at the company 268,900. GeekWire reports: Amazon's headcount has grown by a staggering amount over the last few years. Its employment numbers increased close to 10 percent in the last three months and 47 percent over a year ago, when its employee count stood at a paltry-by-comparison 183,100 people. That's an increase of 85,800 employees in one year -- more than the entire city of Bellingham, Wash.Related: The New York Times report on work challenges at Amazon.

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Re:Instant Deleivery

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With that many employees you would think that they could dispatch a driver to personally deliver my package to my door!

That's called "Prime Now" in a few cities, which is mostly for food delivery (including pizza), but I think you can get some other stuff (I know you can get beer).

In Seattle where you can get Sunday delivery, the packages I've had delivered Sunday came somewhat like pizza - some guy in a beater car drove up, left the package on my doorstep, rang the bell, and drove off. (I'd bet he was carrying more than just my package, but it wasn't a delivery van or anything). Same day delivery seems to be a third party delivery service, though.