Amazon announced plans to help existing employees start their own small delivery businesses.

On Monday, the e-commerce giant said that it's expanding its Delivery Service Partner program to include an incentive for current Amazon workers, promising up to $10,000 in startup costs for employees who partake in the program.

Amazon is also throwing in the equivalent of three months of an employee’s most recent salary to help soon-to-be entrepreneurs get their fleet of delivery cars off the ground.

“We received overwhelming interest from tens of thousands of individuals who applied to be part of the Delivery Service Partner program, including many employees,” said Dave Clark, senior vice president of worldwide operations, in a statement. “We’ve heard from associates that they want to participate in the program but struggled with the transition. Now we have a path for those associates with an appetite for opportunities to own their own businesses.”

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The program is Amazon's solution to its last-mile delivery problem where the company is trying to compete with legacy players like UPS and FedEx.

For the program, drivers will wear Amazon-branded uniforms and the vans will sport Amazon Prime logos — but the business will be owned by the entrepreneurs themselves and contracted by Amazon to complete deliveries.

The Seattle-based company says that since its debut last June, the Delivery Service Partner program has kickstarted the creation of 200 logistics-based businesses. Amazon also says it's working with more than 1.9 million small businesses in the U.S.

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