In Amazon's newly opened "sortation center" in Kent, Wash., there "is not a product in sight," the Columbian reported, noting that instead the warehouse "is teeming with sealed parcels, full of items Amazon customers have ordered. Those packages zip along a maze of conveyor belts, where computers and workers sort them to ultimately deliver them to individual post offices in Seattle, Portland, Spokane and points in between." With the opening of the Kent facility, Sunday delivery has begun in the Pacific Northwest.
"When you see us announcing Sunday delivery, you can assume a sortation center is close by," said Mike Roth, Amazon's v-p of North American operations. By the end of the year, the online retailer plans to have more than 15 sortation centers in the U.S. "There's going to be very rapid growth in the next couple of months," Roth added.
