Amazon Ends Contract With WA Delivery Partner; 120 Jobs Cut

Amazon has cut ties with one of its Washington-state delivery partners, and the termination eliminated 120 jobs. The Business Journals first reported the split. That number matters because it represents an entire workforce at a single contractor — not a trim, not a restructuring, a full stop.

For the delivery contractors watching this from the outside, the mechanics are blunt. Amazon's Delivery Service Partner program (a franchise-style model in which independent firms run last-mile routes under Amazon's brand) concentrates almost all of a partner's revenue in one client. Lose the contract, lose the company. One hundred and twenty people just learned that arithmetic in real time.

What does this mean for the 120 workers?

They are now job seekers in a regional logistics market that Amazon itself continues to hire into, directly. That's the practical read. Last-mile delivery skills — route driving, package handling, fleet familiarity — transfer quickly, and Amazon's own delivery network plus competitors such as UPS and FedEx typically absorb displaced DSP (Delivery Service Partner) staff faster than most occupations.

The harder question is timing. A 120-person layoff landing at once in one local market puts those workers in direct competition with each other. Practitioners in this situation should expect compressed wage negotiating room in the short term, even where demand for drivers exists.

What does it signal for the DSP model?

The Washington termination is a reminder that DSP operators carry concentrated counterparty risk — the risk that a single customer's decision ends the business. Amazon has shuffled, consolidated, and terminated partner relationships across its network repeatedly, and each cut lands on a workforce that had no direct employment relationship with Amazon itself.

For anyone weighing a job at a delivery contractor versus a direct Amazon role, the distinction is not cosmetic. It determines who bears the cost when a contract ends. Right now, in Washington state, 120 people are bearing it.

Why the details are thin — for now

The Business Journals' report, surfaced via Google News, confirms the headline facts: the relationship ended, and 120 positions went with it. The outlet has not published the contractor's name or the stated reason for the split in the material available to Path & Pay. We will update this story as identifying details and any WARN Act notice (the U.S. legal requirement for 60-day advance notice of mass layoffs) become public.

A WARN filing, if one exists, would tell us whether the 120 workers received advance notice, severance context, or neither. Watch for it.