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Amazon Reaffirms USPS Logistics Partnership

April 06, 2026
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USPS Proposes Surcharge on Packages to Cover Rising Transportation Costs
Delivery // March 25, 2026

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has proposed adding a surcharge for fuel and other transportation costs to some of its products for shipping packages. The proposed price change would add 8% to the base postage prices on Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, USPS Ground Advantage...

Amazon Could Slash Postal Service Package Volume by Two-Thirds
Retail // March 18, 2026

Amazon’s status as the U.S. Postal Service’s biggest customer could be about to change. The tech giant has begun to scale back the volume of packages it ships via the postal service (USPS) with the goal of reducing that number by at least two-thirds before its contract expires...

Postal Service Opens Bidding Process for Last-Mile Delivery Access
Delivery // January 20, 2026

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is now taking bids for access to its ​last‑mile delivery network. The federal mail carrier service announced Tuesday (Jan. 20) that it had launched an online bidding website to accept proposals for entry to the delivery network. Upwards of 18,000...

USPS to Allow All Shippers to Bid on Last-Mile Delivery Service
Delivery // December 17, 2025

The United States Postal Service (USPS) plans to make its last-mile delivery service available to shippers of all sizes. After offering a limited number of very large customers delivery service direct from its 18,000 delivery destination units (DDUs) for years, USPS will soon begin accepting bids from all shippers, it said in a...

Interviews & Exclusives
Using Digital Tech And Payments To Solve The Affordable Housing Crisis

January 16, 2020
Access to affordable housing is hard to find in the U.S. According to research from Harvard University, in 2016, nearly half of renters were cost-burdened — or spending more than 30 percent of their annual incomes on rent and utilities. In 1960, that figure was at 20 percent. According to National Low Income Housing Coalition […]

Amazon Prompts USPS To Monetize The Mailbox

December 13, 2018
Call it the Amazon Effect — of a different sort. News has come that the Trump administration wants to boost the United States Postal Service’s (USPS’) revenue, and has taken aim,...

Data Dive: Bottom-Line Thinking On Bottom Lines

April 17, 2017
One day, Wells may not dominate the financial headlines the way it has.  But not yet. And elsewhere, suspicions are a-brewing about how fleet cards are managed, at least within...

Quick Reads
Amazon Reaffirms USPS Logistics Partnership

April 06, 2026
Amazon said Monday (April 6) that it has reached a new deal with the United States Postal Service (USPS) in which the postal agency will continue to make 80% of the package deliveries it currently makes for the retailer, Reuters reported Monday. In March, Amazon threatened to cut two-thirds or more of the package deliveries currently made by […]

USPS Proposes Surcharge on Packages to Cover Rising Transportation Costs

March 25, 2026
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has proposed adding a surcharge for fuel and other transportation costs to some of its products for shipping packages. The proposed price change would add...

Amazon Could Slash Postal Service Package Volume by Two-Thirds

March 18, 2026
Amazon’s status as the U.S. Postal Service’s biggest customer could be about to change. The tech giant has begun to scale back the volume of packages it ships via the postal service (USPS)...

Postal Service Opens Bidding Process for Last-Mile Delivery Access

January 20, 2026
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is now taking bids for access to its ​last‑mile delivery network. The federal mail carrier service announced Tuesday (Jan. 20) that it had launched an...