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Catch up on what happened this week in Logistics: September 8-14
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Hey everyone, If it's your first time reading one of my posts, my name is Menachem, and I have a weekly newsletter called Logistic Pulse that breaks down the top logistics news from the past week. We have over 17,000 subscribers, and I share it on Reddit to spread the knowledge. We're currently on week 63! I hope you enjoy, and I'm always open to feedback. Let's jump into it, Amazon is walking away from the Post Office Amazon's internal planning documents project that the company will deliver about 86% of its own U.S. packages next year and just under 89% by 2029. Business Insider got hold of the forecasts, which are higher than what Amazon was working off recently, when 2027 sat closer to 84%. The carriers split what's left. By 2029, the documents show USPS at 8%, UPS at 1.4%, and FedEx at 0.4%. Amazon's comment was that internal projections are constantly revised and shouldn't be read as commitments, which is true of any forecast and doesn't change where this one points. Amazon passed UPS and FedEx last year to become the largest parcel carrier in the country, with around 6.7 billion packages. The money is now going rural, about $4 billion to triple that part of the network, with a couple of hundred new delivery stations behind it. Rural is the work the Post Office was built for, and everyone else paid the Post Office to do. Parcel pricing runs on density, and Amazon...
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