“Amazon ships an average of 608 million packages each year, which equates to (an estimated) 1,600,000 packages a day. That’s a lot of cardboard boxes, even when we consider some of the packaging used may be padded envelopes.”
https://www.quora.com/How-many-boxes-does-Amazon-ship-every-day
$2.33M dollars a day subsidy
If I had a customer that shipped 1.6 million packages per day, I’d give them a discount too.
We live 30 miles from a Amazon distribution center. Amazon is doing their own delivery.