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You probably see them in your neighborhoods. Those grayish blue vans,

delivering the stuff that you and your neighbors recently bought on Amazon.com.

Climbing in and out of those vans are delivery drivers wearing Amazon uniforms,

but they aren't Amazon employees. They work for what Amazon calls delivery service partners,

or DSPs for short. Over the last few years, Amazon has been on a hiring spree.

Looking for entrepreneurs who are willing to sign up as delivery company owners.

Somebody from HR from Chicago calls me and gives me the congratulations.

You have been chosen to be a DSP owner, and I was like, oh wow, now this is serious.

That's Ted Johnson. He was a veteran who ran a small consulting business in Illinois.

He stumbled onto an online ad looking for delivery partners,

interviewed with an Amazon recruiter, and a few weeks later, Ted got a phone call.

Where am I going to work out of? And she gives me 10 locations.

Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Brooklyn, Long Island, Pennsylvania.

We never been to New England. We did a lot of research, and we said, let's pack up.

Ted and his wife, Karen, were optimistic. It seemed like an opportunity to prove themselves.

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