Amazon opens Iqaluit pickup point

SEATTLE — Amazon this week opened a pickup depot in the Nunavut capital of Iqaluit, which the e-retail giant says will allow it to cut delivery times in the region. Amazon Prime customers can now select the pickup location at checkout and expect their parcels in three to five days instead of two or three weeks. Amazon is teaming up with Inuit-owned airline Canadian North, which will fly Amazon Prime orders in dedicated cargo space on flights every Wednesday and Sunday. The new facility is located in the airline’s former hangar near the new Iqaluit airport.