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FedEx essentially does make their own trucks - they buy from white box suppliers who have very narrow margins. Ships are similar. Planes probably have slightly higher margins, but they still will buy used.

Getting computers from the cloud companies is very different: most cloud products (aside from server rentals) are not in competitive markets.




I would be surprised if FedEx or UPS or any last mile delivery company owned any ocean going ships.


UPS only ships by ground and air, so yes it would be rather surprising.

Fast delivery couriers do not ship by sea.




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