Express Parcel

In its data on millions of parcels shipped during this period in 2024, ShipMatrix found that the on-time performance (OTP) for the three national carriers—FedEx, UPS, and the United States Postal Service (USPS), came in at 91.8% for FedEx, 96.5% for UPS, and 90.4 for USPS.

On January 1, the SurePost relationship between Atlanta-based global freight transportation and logistics services provider UPS and the United States Postal Service (USPS) officially came to an end, upon the expiration of the companies’ negotiated service agreement (NSA).

Combined on-time performance (OTP) for all domestic parcel services for the three carriers using end-of-day delivery, for express and an extra day, hit high levels, respectively, with FedEx at 98.7%, UPS at 98.9%, and the USPS at 98.7%, reported ShipMatrix.

This partnership focuses on improving last-mile delivery, providing speed and reliability for customers.

The company said this expansion, which will reach “beyond Chicagoland” and Illinois into the greater Midwest, through Madison and Milwaukee, Wisc., Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. and St. Louis, Missouri.

A new survey issued by New York-based AlixPartners, entitled “2024 U.S. Consumer & Executive Home Delivery Survey,”was conducted in the second quarter, receiving feedback from 1,100 U.S. consumers aged 18 or above and 110 North American-based transportation, logistics, and supply chain executives at companies with more than $100 million in annual revenue.

UPS officials said that this deal represents what it called an evolution of a commercial agreement between UPS and Estafeta that began in 2020, adding that together these companies’ customers can rely on UPS’s integrated solutions, linking small package, healthcare logistics, and end-to-end supply chain solutions, for what it called a differentiated ‘One UPS’ advantage.

How this simple, sustainable solution could ease the problem of double-parked delivery vehicles.

UPS explained that through this service, its customers can reach more than 620,000 US businesses earlier than its leading competitors, with its guaranteed morning two-day delivery.  

The current state of the business relationship between Memphis-based freight transportation and logistics services provider FedEx and the United States Postal Service (USPS) received a fair amount of attention on the former’s fiscal second quarter earnings call late last year.

The new edition of the TD Cowen/AFS Freight Index, which was recently released by New York-based investment firm Cowen Inc. and Shreveport, La.-based 3PL and freight audit and payment company AFS Logistics LLC, highlighted mixed readings, as well as expectations, for truckload, less-than-truckload (LTL), and parcel activity, from the third quarter to the fourth quarter.