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A couple of years ago they ordered 20,000 Sprinters from Mercedes-Benz for the US delivery fleet. Previously, MB were selling about 27,000 yearly, so this one order tied up the factory for almost 9 months.

https://www.trucks.com/2018/09/06/mercedes-benz-launches-pro...

https://goo.gl/maps/V7DtAFqrYz7ZUTUg6

There is an Amazon distribution center a mile from my house. Every morning it's like bees leaving the hive with all the Sprinters leaving the lot.

I'm seeing these in London all over the place now too.They all electric.

It's happened everywhere in the US now too.

They've done it in the US as well. Pretty much every last mile logistics company in the US is beyond awful.

> Pretty much every last mile logistics company in the US is beyond awful.

From everything I've heard, Amazon's own last-mile delivery service is also pretty awful. They haven't improved anything, just made the problem their own instead of anybody else's.

Sometimes it is not even vans, but old crappy passenger cars.