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Posted on 01/13/2026 11:17:21 AM PST by Lazamataz
United Parcel Service has slashed 48,000 jobs and shuttered 93 facilities in the first nine months of 2025, marking what CEO Carol Tomé called the company's most significant strategic shift in its 118-year history. This overhaul ditches low-margin e-commerce volumes, especially from Amazon, in favor of higher-profit areas like healthcare and small business shipping, fueled by a $9 billion automation investment and a planned 50% cut in Amazon deliveries by mid-2026.
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Slash it to 0. Privatize. Then maybe I’ll get my mail in a reasonable amount of time.
UPS
Not the postal service
UPS is United Parcel Service.
Uh, UPS, not the Postal Service.
Always has been.
And they lose my parcels.
This overhaul ditches low-margin e-commerce volumes, especially from Amazon, in favor of higher-profit areas like healthcare and small business shipping,
I cant wait to see how its Trumps fault.
Unionized.
Another Soviet falls.
UPS
USPS
Yep, easy to confuse the two.
:: This overhaul ditches low-margin e-commerce volumes, especially from Amazon, in favor of higher-profit areas like healthcare and small business shipping, ::
To piggyback on my previous post, it seems that UPS is being asked to reduce what they charge Amazon while the Union says that business is good so we want a raise.
There was a strike about 2 years ago, right?
I do note the projected “slow down” by mid-year.
and I just intercepted the DHL driver before she delivered my package to the neighbor’s house.
None of ‘em are anywhere near perfect, but the Amazon Prime contractors put my package on my doorstep darn near every time exactly when they say it will be delivered. Probably the lowest-paid of any delivery service.
This sounds like it’s no different than the auto industry. Just as Ford ditches the Focus in favor of the F-150, UPS ditches Amazon in favor of lower-volume, higher revenue customers.
I guess I’ve been lucky. In 45 years, I’ve never had a loss of package with UPS (delivered to my neighbor a few times though). As for the USPS, probably dozens of times (including mail, not just packages) or mail being “accidently” torn open (usually greeting or birthday cards that some slug at the USPS thinks a gift card is in there). Welcome to the broken world containing broken human beings, especially in the public sector.
FedEx dropped Amazon a few years ago. Amazon would only use them for packages that FedEx lost money on.
It will be difficult to get rid of the US Postal service for constitutional reasons, the first being that it is literally an enumerated power.
The second is that first class mail is protected by the 4th and 5th amendments both by statute and case law. You won’t get that by private currier, Fed-Ex or UPS.
USPS also rarely loses anything. In fact can not think of anything lost in the past decade or so.
But UPS tends to lose at least two packages a year.
It's never valuable stuff but it is annoying.
Maybe it is just the guys in my area.
Yeah but they got that big union pay raise a few years ago. So their severance will be higher. There’s that…
“””USPS also rarely loses anything. In fact can not think of anything lost in the past decade or so.”””
Twice in the last month my neighbor came over with a bunch of my mail that was put in his box. Matching the number on the mail with the number on the mailbox must be tough. It is not uncommon for me to get mail addressed to someone a few blocks away.
I have nothing but trouble with Fedex. Always late and several shipments lost including a $1600 set of tires. UPS is extremely reliable. Can’t remember them ever losing a package and hardly ever late.
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