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Amazon Will Now Start Delivering Packages On Sundays

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Amazon and the United States Postal Service are teaming up to start delivering packages on Sundays.

According to the WSJ, "The Postal Service makes limited Sunday package deliveries for its own needs around the holidays, but the arrangement with Amazon represents its first large foray into Sunday delivery."

Sunday delivery will begin on November 17 in Los Angeles and New York. Later on, the service will expand to cities like Houston, New Orleans, Phoenix, and others. 

The best part? It won't cost any extra to get packages delivered on Sunday. Amazon is hoping this will drive more people to join its Prime program, which provides unlimited free shipping on tons of items for an annual fee of $79.

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Caroline Moss was an editor at Business Insider. She previously wrote for The Daily Dot and has had bylines in Cosmopolitan and The New York Times. She also writes a humor series for The Toast called "Hey Ladies." Caroline graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a degree in journalism. She lives in Brooklyn. (Note: Caroline stopped writing for Business Insider's newsroom in March 2016. At present, she contributes on a freelance basis to Insider Picks.)