2EZY, a delivery firm based in Washington, shut down its Airway Heights operations and cut 120 staff members this past Monday. The collapse occurred after Amazon, the company's sole client, abruptly terminated its contract.
The 120 jobs lost at Airway Heights
The workforce reduction at 2EZY was total, affecting every single employee stationed at the company's Washington hubs. According to the WARN notice, the layoffs included 109 drivers, five dispatch wrokers, four helpers, one administrative assistant, and one manager. These workers were based at the company's facilities located at 12315 W McFarlane Road in Airway Heights.
The suddenness of the closure means that over a hundred individuals in the Airway Heights community lost their livelihoods simultaneously.. Because 2EZY operated as a specialized contractor, these employees were not direct Amazon staff,but their employment was entirely dependent on the corporate giant's continued partnership.
A late WARN filing and the DSK4 and HGE2 closures
The closure of the DSK4 and HGE2 facilities was accompanied by a late filing of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice. Under federal and state requirements, employers are typically mandated to provide a 60-day advance warning before a mass layoff or facility closure to allow workers time to find new employment.
As reported in the WARN notice,2EZY failed to meet this 60-day window because the company only learnd of Amazon's decision to drop the service on the final business day before the shutdown. 2EZY described the situation as "unforeseeable," claiming it was impossible to provide the legally required notice when their only source of revenue vanished overnight.
The fragility of the Amazon Delivery Service Partner model
This incident is a textbook example of the risks inherent in the Amazon Delivery Service Partner (DSP) program. In this model, independent businesses are contracted to handle the "last mile" of delivery, managing their own hiring and payroll while relying exclusively on Amazon for routing and volume. While this allows Amazon to scale its logistics network rapidly, it shifts the operational risk onto the small business owner.
The 2EZY collapse echoes a wider trend in the gig-adjacent economy where "partnerships" are often one-sided. When a DSP relies on a single client for 100% of its revenue, the business is not so much a partner as it is a precarious extension of the parent company's infrastructure. Any shift in Amazon's internal logistics strategy or a dip in a partner's performance metrics can lead to an immediate and total business failure.
The silence surrounding Amazon's one-day notice
Despite the scale of the layoffs, several critical details remain missing from the public record. The source reporting on the WARN notice does not provide a reason for why Amazon terminated the contract, nor does it include a statement from Amazon regarding the timing of the notification. It remains unclear if 2EZY was cited for performance failures or if Amazon is simply consolidating its delivery operations in the Airway Heights region.
Furthermore, it is unknown whether Amazon provided any transition suport for the 120 displaced workers, or if the responsibility for severance and unemployment navigation falls entirely on the now-defunct 2EZY. The report presents the situation primarily through the lens of the WARN filing, leaving the corporate motivations of the client undisclosed.
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