{"id":1001485,"date":"2026-04-07T07:51:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001485"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:01:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:31:38","slug":"amazon-strikes-deal-with-usps-that-maintains-80-of-package-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/07\/amazon-strikes-deal-with-usps-that-maintains-80-of-package-volume\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon strikes deal with USPS that maintains 80% of package volume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com on Monday announced it reached a new agreement with the US Postal Service on package deliveries, and sources said the cash-strapped mail system would retain about 80% of its existing deliveries from its biggest customer. <\/p>\n<p>That 20% cut is a dramatically better outcome for the postal agency than the two-thirds \u200cor larger reduction \u2060that \u2060Reuters reported last month Amazon had threatened. <\/p>\n<p>USPS warned last month it could run out of \u200bcash as soon as October, and the risk that Amazon would replace the carrier by \u200bexpanding its own delivery network or using rivals was an existential peril.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com on Monday announced it reached a new agreement with the US Postal Service on package deliveries, and sources said the cash-strapped mail system would retain about 80% of its existing deliveries from its biggest customer. That 20% cut is a dramatically better outcome for the postal agency than the two-thirds \u200cor larger reduction \u2060that \u2060Reuters reported last month Amazon had threatened. USPS warned last month it could run out of \u200bcash as soon as October, and the risk that Amazon would replace the carrier by \u200bexpanding its own delivery network or using rivals was an existential peril.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}