Third Bush on the Right, Please: USPS, Amazon Partner to Offer Customized Grocery Delivery Service

The Postal Service’s proposed market test of same-day grocery deliveries, apparently in partnership with Amazon, would require even more TLC on the part of USPS’s carrier force than normal deliveries, the agency revealed this week in filings with the Postal Regulatory Commission.

"All Customized Delivery items will be transported directly to a customer’s door and will be delivered [between 3 a.m. and 7 a.m.] without disturbing the recipient," USPS revealed to the PRC.

To avoid theft of the early-morning deliveries, such "special delivery instructions" could conceivably include placing the special grocery-filled totes at back doors, in hallways, into parked cars, or even...