Amazon and USPS reached a deal in which USPS will retain 80% of Amazon’s package business, according to Reuters, which published the following statement from Amazon on Monday:
“We’re pleased to have reached a new agreement with USPS that furthers our longstanding partnership and will let us continue supporting our customers and communities together.”
Reuters said Amazon is USPS’s largest customer and cited a source that said Amazon would continue to use USPS for about 80% of its existing deliveries, or over 1 billion packages a year.
Last month, Amazon accused USPS of having “abruptly walked away at the eleventh hour” from negotiations in December. USPS then opened up entry to its last-mile delivery network in January and launched a new USPS bidding platform. Reuters said in its reporting today that Amazon had criticized that move and threatened to cut its delivery business prior to the deal being reached.
