Earlier this week we introduced different sources of secondary income and my experiment to see which of these activities yielded the highest hourly wage. It appears that one vendor that aids individuals seeking secondary income has introduced an excellent service helping order fulfillment.

Fulfillment by Amazon is a new service that eliminates another barrier to selling your junk, constant trips to the post office. The picture below basically highlights the service:

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Amazon allows you to mass-ship your junk to a distribution warehouse. When a customer orders your product, Amazon recognizes the sale and ships the item to the buyer. If you want to look like a professional business, Amazon can even print unique packaging labels.

It appears Amazon is attempting to further this notion of insourcing, made famous by Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat. Insoucing is basically outsourcing business processes, allowing firms and individuals to execute business functions they wish to specialize in. Fulfillment by Amazon allows you to simply find your junk and list it, while they do the rest.