A newly proposed agreement between Amazon and the U.S. Postal Service is drawing attention from logistics experts and consumer advocates who say the terms could widen an already uneven delivery landscape across the country. Under the arrangement, which still requires approval from the Postal Regulatory Commission, Amazon would reduce the number of packages it routes through USPS by roughly 20%, a shift that translates to approximately 200 million fewer shipments per year moving through the postal network.
As Amazon pulls that volume into its own growing logistics infrastructure, USPS would be left covering the fixed costs of its nationwide delivery network across a smaller pool of packages. For customers in cities and densely populated suburbs, the changes may go largely unnoticed at first. For those in rural communities, the consequences could arrive much sooner and feel considerably more significant.
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