Delivery

For Cyber Week, which ShipMatrix defines as the week of December 1-7‑and a period in which more than 100 million parcels per day are handled, with more than 80% of these parcels being holiday gifts and delivered to residences—the firm reported very strong performance results for FedEx, UPS, and the United States Postal Service (USPS).

A new report recently issued by DHL eCommerce, a subsidiary of global logistics services provider, Deutsche Post DHL Group, examined how both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce shippers are getting ready for peak season, in terms of their key objectives and priorities.

The firm said that based on its estimates it expects that 2.3 million packages will be delivered over this year’s peak, representing a 5% annual gain, attributing the expected increase to one more shopping day than there was in 2024.

Amazon Shipping will add peak season surcharges from Oct. 26 through Jan. 17, 2026, the company recently announced.

In a Form 8-K statement issued last week, UPS said that it terminated its plans to acquire Estafeta due to the inability of all closing conditions to be satisfied.

Quarterly consolidated revenue, at $21.2 billion, fell 2.7% annually, and basic earnings per share, at $1.55 (short of Wall Street estimates of $1.57), fell $0.24, or 13.4%, annually. Total operating profit, at $1.8 billion, decreased 6.3% annually. 

The Teamsters said earlier today that UPS is preparing to roll out later this month what it called “an illegal plan” to buy out full-time Teamsters-represented UPS employees, labeling it a corporate scheme which directly violated its contract with UPS that represents 340,000 delivery workers.

The company explained that this investment comprises its major divisions—DHL Express, DHL Global Forwarding, DHL Supply Chain, and DHL eCommerce, in various ways, including enhancing infrastructure, expanding networks and capacity, and elevating service capabilities.

A report stated that Amazon has tapped FedEx to be a partner for the delivery of select large packages to homes, citing an Amazon spokesman, saying the company, “has reached an agreement with FedEx to serve as one of several third-party partners to deliver packages to our customers.”

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Entitled “Bridging the e-Commerce Divide: Meeting Consumer Demands with Merchant Offerings,” a key takeaway cited by FedEx observed how 75% of consumers prioritize free shipping over fast shipping, which it said represents a major consumer behavior trend, as well as the “growing importance of free shipping in the online shopping experience.”

The white paper discusses the challenges of final-mile delivery in urban areas, exacerbated by the pandemic, and offers strategies to optimize logistics, with a focus on urban warehouses.

Following an April 2023 announcement, in which Memphis-based global freight transportation and logistics services provider FedEx said that, effective June 2024, it will consolidate all of its operating companies into a single organization, CEO Raj Subramanian offered up some insight into the initiative at investment firm Bernstein’s 40th Annual Strategic Decisions Conference this week.

When Memphis-based global freight transportation and logistics services provider FedEx and global e-commerce giant Amazon ended their business relationship in 2019, one could have likely assumed, at the time, that the breakup was permanent.

Company officials said that this new facility is a full-service operation where the company processes shipments and directly serves customers at its new retail ServicePoint counter. And they added that the $7.3 million facility also increases shipment capacity and also enables faster processing, which results in faster pickup cutoff times for Eastern Virginia-based shippers.