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I'm not an expert, but regarding your last question, I believe it's an industry-standard practice:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_shipping

And something that Amazon does as well. If you're a third-party seller:

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/201808410

But this more-or-less hidden from the customer if Amazon is the seller.

The article wouldn't apply to drop-shipping situation. Drop-shipping means the upstream provider delivers directly to the downstream consumer, but that means it never goes through Amazon's warehouse and is thus not packaged or re-packaged by Amazon.

Right. But the question the person above asked was "or do away with the warehouse altogether and have products ship directly from manufacturers."

Isn't that drop shipping?

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