The tents take a couple weeks to build, allowing Amazon to launch rapidly in areas where it wants to expand its delivery network.
to grow its last-mile logistics network by recruiting more delivery service partners, or DSPs, to hire and manage teams of drivers.
The structures serve as delivery stations, which is Amazon's term for the facilities that house packages until the last leg of their journey to customers' homes and businesses. A former senior Amazon employee said the sites, which are referred to internally as"carnivals," take only a matter of weeks to build and point to the dizzying pace at which Amazon expanding its reach.The tent stations are huge, standing up to 35 feet tall and ranging between 9,000 square feet and 18,000 square feet, and employ up to 300 people.
The tents also have a number of other perks. They require little-to-no property taxes and little maintenance. They also help save on energy costs due to natural lighting that filters through the fabric, according to the Heating isn't very effective inside the structures, according to Jim Gilton, an Amazon Flex driver who works out of a tent facility in Colorado Springs.
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