Amazon adds more campus connections
Amazon is set to roll out more parcel pickup locations at US college campuses. Today (8 March), Amazon announced an agreement with Georgia Institute of Technology to open Amazon@GeorgiaTech, a staffed pickup location at 86 Fifth Street NW on the Georgia Tech campus. The facility will be open “later this summer”.
Last week, Amazon announced similar agreements with the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Akron in Ohio.
Since 2015, Amazon has opened staffed pickup locations at the following universities: Purdue University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and University of California, Berkeley, as well as in the college communities of University of California, Santa Barbara, and University of Cincinnati.
Amazon also has confirmed agreements to open campus pickup locations with the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Davis.