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Scott Ruffin’s startup, Pandion, aims to ease delivery cost and congestion for the competition.
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Scott Ruffin was trying to make
Amazon.com Inc. a shipping powerhouse. He spent five years building out home-delivery operations for the e-commerce giant, reducing its dependence on services such as
FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service Inc. Now Ruffin wants to do it on his own. Introduced in stealth mode in September with $5 million in seed funding, his startup Pandion aims to help major retailers offer affordable one- and two-day deliveries and compete with his former employer.
The shipping business is hot right now, but it’s also a mess. FedEx and UPS responded to increased demand during the pandemic by raising rates. Amazon—which has tens of thousands of its own trucks and about 80 planes—fared better than most, but still had to limit what shoppers could buy. People were warned to start ordering their Christmas gifts as early as October, and packages piled up in warehouses during the holiday season.