BUSINESS: Amazon just quietly confirmed it is competing with UPS and FedEx.

Amazon’s annual reports usually first highlight the “intense competition” the retail juggernaut faces. In 2017, that predictably included “retail, e-commerce services, digital content and electronic devices, and web and infrastructure computing services.”

This year, Amazon added another industry in which they’re facing competition — “transportation and logistics services,” as CNBC’s Eugene Kim reported on Feb. 5.

That’s a clear warning shot to UPS and FedEx. Both transportation companies have long claimed Amazon is just a good customer.

I’d grown frustrated with Amazon Prime, due to increasing reliance on USPS delivery, which is my town ranges from “merely unreliable” to “reliably awful.” But they’re doing a lot less of that, and delivering more often with their own vehicles — and often earlier in the day, too.