Retailers battled for last-minute shoppers and delivery companies raced to keep up with a surge of packages in the final sprint of a shortened holiday shopping season. Super Saturday, as the last Saturday before Christmas is known, is projected to be the year's...
The U.S. Postal Service delivered fewer packages in the latest quarter for the first time in nine years, as companies such as Amazon.com Inc. and FedEx Corp. increasingly begin to deliver online orders to homes themselves. The shift among the U.S. delivery giants is depriving the Postal Service,...
Looking for ways to raise Postal Service revenue, the Trump administration has proposed a fundamental change to your mailbox: selling access to it to private companies. The Postal Service could capitalize on a “highly valuable” asset by selling mailbox access to companies such...
President Trump tweeted in December that the U.S. Postal Service isn’t charging Amazon enough to deliver merchandise. But it’s not Jeff Bezos who is getting the lowest rates. In fact, it’s a major economic competitor of the United States—China—that is getting a...
Package-delivery companies are bracing for their busiest week of the holiday season, and one with less room for error. Read more here....