Maine’s first Amazon location, a 12,000-square foot delivery station in Caribou, opened Friday morning, a company spokesperson said in a release.

The facility, which the Bangor Daily News first broke the news of in June , has been in the works for more than two years . Located at 33 Aldrich Drive, it is a part of the world’s largest online retailer’s more than $4 billion effort to control its last-mile delivery service in rural areas nationwide, cutting out carriers such as UPS, FedEx and the U.S. Postal Service.

Initial service will be confined to the Caribou area, the spokesperson said, but the company expects to expand to the Fort Fairfield area “in the near future.”

“We’re thrilled to launch our first operations facility in Maine and bring faster delivery to our customers in Car

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