https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/11/27/1315240/amazon-tops-ups-and-fedex-to-become-biggest-us-delivery-business
Amazon has grabbed the crown of biggest delivery business in the U.S., surpassing both UPS and FedEx in parcel volumes. From a report:
The Seattle e-commerce giant delivered more packages to U.S. homes in
2022 than UPS, after eclipsing FedEx in 2020, and it is on track to
widen the gap this year, according to internal Amazon data and people
familiar with the matter. The U.S. Postal Service is still the biggest
parcel service by volume; it handles hundreds of millions of packages
for all three companies. A decade ago Amazon was a major customer for
UPS and FedEx, and some executives from the incumbents and analysts
mocked the notion that it could someday supplant them. Amazon's outsize
growth combined with strategy shifts at FedEx and UPS have changed the
balance.
Before Thanksgiving this year, Amazon had already delivered more than
4.8 billion packages in the U.S., and its internal projections predict
that it will deliver around 5.9 billion by the end of the year,
according to documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal. Last year
Amazon shipped 5.2 billion packages. Amazon's figures include only
packages that Amazon shipped from beginning to end. UPS and FedEx
include packages they hand off to the postal service for final delivery
in their tallies. UPS has said that its domestic volume this year is
unlikely to exceed last year's 5.3 billion, which includes packages
delivered to customers through the postal service. In the first nine
months this year, UPS handled around 3.4 billion parcels domestically.
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