Posted on 11/28/2023 8:35:02 AM PST by Twotone
Amazon has claimed the title of the largest nongovernment delivery service in the nation, outperforming both UPS and FedEx in parcel volumes.
The e-commerce giant sent out more residential deliveries to U.S. homes in 2022 than UPS, according to the Wall Street Journal. In 2020, Amazon surpassed FedEx for the number of packages delivered to homes, and Amazon officials expected to widen that margin this year. The U.S. Postal Service is still the largest domestic parcel service by volume, handling deliveries for Amazon, UPS, and FedEx.
Amazon exceeded 4.8 billion parcel deliveries in the United States before Thanksgiving, the Wall Street Journal reported, and the internal company projections show they’ll have sent out about 5.9 billion deliveries by the end of 2023, a 13% increase from last year. In 2022, Amazon delivered 5.2 billion domestic packages. In comparison, USPS’s shipping and package volume was 7.2 billion in 2022, and UPS handled 5.3 billion.
In the first nine months of this year, UPS delivered about 3.4 billion parcels domestically, while FedEx said its domestic express and ground parcel volume hit about 3.05 billion for the fiscal year ending May 31, 2023, according to the Wall Street Journal.
FedEx ended its partnership with Amazon in 2019, choosing not to renew its ground-shipping contract with the world's largest online retailer. Meanwhile, UPS's revenue tied to Amazon fell from 13.3% in 2020 to 11.3% in 2022, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
Amazon is amid a lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission that accuses the company of using secret pricing tools to inflate prices and favor their own brands. The lawsuit comes after other complaints filed by the FTC recently, including claiming Amazon duped millions of people into enrolling in Amazon Prime without knowing.
Does that mean I can take a package to Amazon and they will ship it for me?
Or is it just the volume of packages they ship and get a cut from each one?...................................
Amazon is more reliable and on-time than UPS or FedEx. It’s no surprise.
I believe they are still only delivering the stuff they sell.
But the next obvious leap is to accept packages from customers and deliver them.
They deliver their own stuff, so it really isn’t a big deal. The local Miami media trumpeted this today like they were beating UPS and FedEx.
I don’t go to Amazon to ship my stuff to family.
Exactly, just leave your package on the front step and amazon will deliver it for you, then they bankrupt UPS and FedEx.
How much do their drivers make?
Amazon delivers all of my stuff to my local post office, which then adds on two or three more days to the delivery time while it sits in some bin in a dark corner. Heck, once they didn’t even bother trying to deliver it. They just sent it back to Amazon for who knows what reason!
Amazon needs to provide a much better online package tracking system for its customers!
Most of our Amazon prime orders used to be here in 1-2 days.
Now it is often 3-5 days
Their smaller delivery vans have been replaced with an almost Bus sized delivery vehicle using an electric motor.
We still get a few weird deliveries at night.
About a year ago we replaced our old and small mailbox.
A relative, whose business is 100% on order and delivered to you, recommended getting the larger mailbox.
So we got the big one and had it installed.
We get in the mailbox deliveries from UPS and other delivery services via the postal system.
Our PO in North Idaho has a contract with FedEx (or maybe “had”). I would see PO trucks delivering on SUNDAY or late in the evening and you knew it was a FedEx delivery. Heaven forbid the USPO would work on Sunday.
It was always weird seeing the government regs and unions blocking Sunday deliveries but the same equipment and people can do deliveries under a private contract.
You must really live in the boonies if you have to drive to your local PO to get your Amazon stuff.
I lived in a tiny mountain hamlet in Arizona in the mid 70s for one winter. We had General Post Office service which meant I had to go pick up my mail at the PO — no delivery service in that town at all. I couldn’t get there during the week because of my work hours and one-hour commute each way to the plant and the PO was closed on Sundays, so I was able to get mail once a week. It was nice in those days looking forward to nice letters from family and friends. I miss that.
Amazon uses the USPS for everything the deliver to ME.
“Heaven forbid the USPO would work on Sunday.”
Post Office delivers on Sundays where I live. I would venture to say I see a post office vehicle on my street pretty much every Sunday.
Ask the truck driver. I’d wager he or she is doing Amazon deliveries.
I thought the same as you and asked our carrier about the Sunday trucks. She told me they are all Amazon contract deliveries.
Comparing Amazon to FedEx and UPS is the wrong comparison. Amazon compares with customer trips to brick and mortar stores as well as brick and mortar store to customer deliveries.
Hmm. Strangely, despite this, EVERY thing I have ever ordered from Amazon has been delivered by either UPS or the USPS.
I see little, if any, room for improvement
“Ask the truck driver. I’d wager he or she is doing Amazon deliveries.”
I’m sure they are. I thought that was taken for granted.
Amazon has dumped their rural deliveries onto USPS. Of course they’ll have stellar delivery times in urban settings.
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