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More Full Time Jobs At Amazon Facility in Middletown

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MIDDLETOWN, Del. (AP) - Amazon is hiring more than 500 full-time workers at its Middletown fulfillment center.

The Wilmington News Journal reports the jobs will be created this month. Amazon spokesman Aaron Toso says the $12-an-hour jobs being added at the Middletown Fulfillment Center include positions that receive inventory, as well as pick, pack and ship customers' orders. Those hired will receive medical and other employee benefits immediately.

The new jobs at the facility are among the 6,000 total new positions the e-commerce giant is filling at 19 of its 50 fulfillment centers throughout the country.

About 2,500 will be employed at the Middletown Fulfillment Center. The expansion will bring the total of full-time jobs at the center to more than 1,000 since last year. Another 500 jobs were added last summer.

Don Rush is the News Director at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.