Bloomberg Businessweek asks: "Will Amazon kill FedEx?"

In case you missed it: last week, Bloomberg Businessweek published an article titled "Will Amazon Kill FedEx?" 

As the title indicates, the piece speculates that Amazon aims to upend FedEx and UPS—a topic we've written about here and elsewhere.

A few of the more interesting facts from the Bloomberg article:

• There's been resistance to Amazon's expansion in at least a couple of major European cities.
• According to a June Deutsche Bank report, Amazon has patented a technology called "anticipatory package shipping," which will allow it to figure out when a customer will need products replenished and have a package ready in advance. The technology should save Amazon money, since it potentially could use a slower shipping method and still get shipments to customers exactly when they're needed.
• Also from the Deutsche Bank study: Amazon has employed "hundreds of Ph.D. mathematicians" whose job is to model logistics networks.

There's also a short (about 10 minutes) interview with the article's author.

Amazon also recently hired lawyer Seth Bloom, who used to be general counsel to the Senate Antitrust Committee, as a lobbyist.