Key Highlights
- A new delivery partnership between Amazon and USPS maintains approximately 80% of current package volumes
- USPS avoids the previously threatened reduction of two-thirds in Amazon deliveries
- Under the revised agreement, USPS will handle roughly 1 billion Amazon packages each year
- Shares of FedEx (FDX) declined 0.8% to $358.91 while UPS dropped 1% to $97.16 after the announcement
- UPS has its own plan to slash Amazon delivery volumes by more than half by the end of 2026
Amazon and the United States Postal Service have finalized a revised package delivery partnership, averting what could have been a catastrophic financial hit for the financially strained government mail carrier.
Amazon $AMZN said it reached a deal with the U.S. Postal Service covering more than 1 billion package deliveries a year, equal to about 80% of its existing USPS volume. pic.twitter.com/zNGcveH8rV
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Under the new terms, USPS will continue handling approximately 1 billion Amazon packages annually — representing about 80% of the existing delivery volume. This represents a significantly smaller reduction than the two-thirds volume cut Amazon had initially considered.
In a statement, Amazon characterized the arrangement as an extension of their “longstanding partnership.” USPS has not yet issued an official response.
Amazon represents USPS’s largest client, contributing approximately $6 billion to the postal service’s total annual operating budget of roughly $80 billion. The loss of that revenue stream would have created severe financial hardship. Just last month, USPS issued a warning that it could exhaust its available cash reserves by October.
The revised agreement awaits final regulatory approval.
Impact on UPS and FedEx Operations
The announcement triggered negative reactions from competitor stocks. FedEx (FDX) shares decreased 0.8% to close at $358.91, while UPS stock fell 1% to finish at $97.16.
UPS has already initiated its own strategic withdrawal from Amazon deliveries. In January 2025, UPS revealed an agreement with Amazon to decrease delivery volumes by over 50% by the latter half of 2026. This represents a calculated strategic pivot away from Amazon reliance.
FedEx, conversely, has taken the opposite approach — entering into a multi-year delivery partnership with Amazon announced in May 2025.
Amazon’s Independent Delivery Network Expansion
Amazon shows no signs of slowing its own logistics infrastructure development. In April 2025, the e-commerce giant announced plans to invest over $4 billion to broaden rural delivery capabilities throughout the United States by the close of 2026.
This infrastructure buildout will proceed as planned — though not at a magnitude that would directly compete with USPS’s comprehensive address-level coverage, according to industry sources.
Meanwhile, USPS continues seeking solutions to stabilize its precarious financial position. The agency has requested authorization for a temporary 8% rate increase on priority mail and package services, scheduled to take effect April 26. Postmaster General David Steiner has also floated a proposal to raise first-class stamp prices to 95 cents from the current 78 cents.
Since 2007, USPS has accumulated $118 billion in cumulative net losses, primarily attributed to the dramatic decline in first-class mail volume, which has plummeted to levels not seen since the late 1960s.
Steiner previously disclosed to Reuters that USPS processes approximately 1.7 billion Amazon packages each year, making the 1 billion package figure in the new agreement a notable decrease — though substantially better than Amazon’s earlier proposed cuts.
