Amazon Plans Drastic Cut in Packages Sent Via Already-Struggling Postal Service
Amazon.com is planning to sharply cut the number of packages it ships through the U.S. Postal Service, a move that could cost the agency billions of dollars in much-needed revenue. The e-commerce giant, long the Postal Service’s biggest customer, has already begun ratcheting down its postal volume and wants to reduce it by at least two-thirds by this fall, when its current contract with the agency expires, according to people familiar with the matter. USPS delivered more than a billion packages for Amazon last year, close to 15% of all the packages that the Postal Service delivered in the country.