Amazon has grabbed the crown of largest supply enterprise within the U.S., surpassing each UPS and FedEx in parcel volumes. From a report: The Seattle e-commerce large delivered extra packages to U.S. properties in 2022 than UPS, after eclipsing FedEx in 2020, and it’s on observe to widen the hole this yr, in response to inner Amazon knowledge and other people aware of the matter. The U.S. Postal Service remains to be the most important parcel service by quantity; it handles a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of packages for all three firms. A decade in the past Amazon was a significant buyer for UPS and FedEx, and a few executives from the incumbents and analysts mocked the notion that it might sometime supplant them. Amazon’s outsize progress mixed with technique shifts at FedEx and UPS have modified the steadiness.
Earlier than Thanksgiving this yr, Amazon had already delivered greater than 4.8 billion packages within the U.S., and its inner projections predict that it’ll ship round 5.9 billion by the top of the yr, in response to paperwork seen by The Wall Road Journal. Final yr Amazon shipped 5.2 billion packages. Amazon’s figures embrace solely packages that Amazon shipped from starting to finish. UPS and FedEx embrace packages they hand off to the postal service for last supply of their tallies. UPS has mentioned that its home quantity this yr is unlikely to exceed final yr’s 5.3 billion, which incorporates packages delivered to prospects by means of the postal service. Within the first 9 months this yr, UPS dealt with round 3.4 billion parcels domestically.
