Australia Post is responding to e-commerce growth by building dedicated parcel post offices and rolling out an ultra-low cost shipping option aimed at small retailers.

International mail systems grew revenue in 2024 as e-commerce shipments negated a downward trend in letter mail.

FedEx is cutting hundreds of jobs in North Carolina, Iowa, Nebraska and Texas.

Poland-based InPost continues to implement its pan-European expansion strategy with the acquisition of Spanish parcel operator Sending.

Regional courier service Deliver It has gone out of business.

&T Express, a major parcel freight carrier in Southeast Asia, posted record second-quarter volume growth.

A bevy of new final-mile delivery companies is eating into the market share of FedEx, UPS and the U.S. Postal Service. The competition is keeping a lid on rates to the benefit of e-commerce shippers.

DHL Parcel in Germany is looking to expand use of parcel vending machines.

UPS will offer an early retirement package to drivers as it looks to cull 20,000 workers amid slower parcel growth.

FedEx will soon provide a single pricing structure for parcel pickups to coincide with restructuring of Express and Ground networks into a single network.

DHL Group has replaced the heads of Global Forwarding, eCommerce and Supply Chain at various levels within the Americas region.

The U.S. Postal Service is slowing down service to remote post offices to speed up the rest of the mail distribution system and even out volume flows.

The U.S. Postal Service is saving a great deal of money with UPS as its prime air cargo vendor instead of FedEx, according to a new inspector general’s report.

DHL Express Canada will resume parcel deliveries on Monday after settling a labor dispute that resulted in a three-week strike.

Air Hong Kong’s has turned the page on the older A300-600 freighter and now operates an all-Airbus A330 fleet.

FedEx is accelerating the overhaul of its express and package delivery networks to eliminate excess capacity and improve customer service.

The powerful Teamsters union is accusing UPS of failing to fully honor terms of its 2023 contract related to air conditioned vehicles, hiring full-time workers and forced overtime.

DHL Express Canada could resume operations within days if union workers ratify a preliminary contract negotiated by Unifor.

FedEx has named more executives to lead the divestment of the Freight subsidiary and run it as an independent company.

FedEx said its newly streamlined air cargo network helped it adjust to tariff-induced demand fluctuations and make a profit during its latest quarter.

FedEx has permanently parked 12 cargo jets as it aligns the fleet with shipping volumes to control costs.

Amazon is ramping up Same-Day and Next-Day delivery for small towns, rural areas.

FedEx founder Fred Smith is being remembered as a legend in the freight transportation industry after his death on Saturday. Former FedEx employees have many stories about how Smith built the FedEx airline from scratch.

FedEx has named a new chairman after founder Fred Smith died over the weekend.

Qantas Freight has added direct cargo flights to Shanghai and Bangkok, where shipments can connect to U.S.-bound freighters.

FedEx founder Fred Smith died Saturday with a legacy as a great U.S. entrepreneur.

DHL Express Canada was forced to suspend operations Friday. The company wants the government to override a new law prohibiting the use of replacement workers.

Canada Post has agreed to a new contract with its rural postmasters, but remains at loggerheads with its largest union.

The airport in Lyons, France, is significantly expanding its cargo infrastructure with the opening of a replacement terminal for DHL Express and construction underway on a general warehouse and pharma center to be occupied by Worldwide Flight Services.

At the Paris Air Show on Wednesday, Airbus secured its second A350 freighter deal and Embraer announced the first operator for its regional E190 converted freighter.

A new robot that flips packages so labels can be scanned is helping FedEx more accurately sort packages at its Cologne, Germany, air station for final delivery.

Amazon’s air logistics unit has started flying internationally for the first time from the U.S. to help fulfill e-commerce orders in Colombia and is leaning on a U.S. cargo airline to fly the aircraft and a Colombian airline for revenue on the return leg to Miami.

DHL Express Canada will stop accepting shipments on Tuesday and suspend all operations on Friday in response to a work stoppage by 2,100 employees.

Airbus has won an order from a Saudi Arabian aircraft leasing company for 10 next-generation A350 cargo jets.

Atlas Air has relocated to a new cargo terminal at Miami International Airport that provides greater operational efficiency.

The Canadian government has agreed to Canada Post’s request to force a union vote on is latest contract offer to break a negotiating stalemate.

DHL has been expanding its Middle East presence in conjunction with the region’s economic development. The next evolution is a nearly $600M investment in facilities, equipment and technology in Saudi Arabia and the UAE over five years.

Contract negotiations between Canada Post and mail carriers remain deadlocked as efforts to start arbitration falter.

DHL Express Canada says it has taken steps to minimize any disruption from a lockout and strike over a contract dispute with union workers.

Canada Post and its unionized letter carriers are negotiating again on a collective bargaining agreement, but their inability to resolve differences is compounding problems at the national mail carrier.

Southwest Airlines has built its own cargo facility at Denver International Airport so it can move more cargo for customers in the city.

Western Global Airlines is a shell of its former self, but Middle East carrier Etihad Airways is partnering with the company because it needs more lift to meet shipper demand for transportation between China and the UK.

Awesome Cargo will soon begin flying its first main-deck freighter after starting out with a couple of seat-free passenger aircraft that can only carry light boxes in the cabin.

Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers are not giving an inch in their fight over a labor contract, with Canada Post showing frustration with union leadership and opposing its call for binding arbitration.

The airline industry’s largest trade association is predicting much slower cargo growth in 2025 as rising tariffs dampen trade activity or shift it to ocean transport.

Canada Post, in a sign it has lost patience with leadership of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, has asked the Canadian government to put its latest contract offer to employees for a vote.

DHL Express workers say they are willing to walk off the job in less than two weeks if a new labor contract isn’t in place by then.

The postal workers union is disparaging what Canada Post called an enhanced offer on Wednesday as the sides struggle to finalize a labor agreement after nearly 18 months of negotiations.

Canada Post’s financial troubles have been compounded by the ongoing labor dispute and the inability to generate more revenue from parcel delivery.

Veho, a tech-enabled parcel courier, is testing a delivery robot that can walk, climb and roll to customer doorsteps in cityscapes.

Purolator’s airfreight partner in western Canada is modifying turboprop aircraft for parcel transport as part of a fleet modernization.

Canada Post workers backed away from going on strike, opting instead for a ban on overtime work. But the threat of a strike has already allowed competitors to take parcel business from the national post.

The CEO of Mercado Libre, the dominant e-commerce player in Latin America, has decided to turn control to one of his lieutenants and move to the board room.

The U.S. government says it moved to block a businessman and his two logistics companies from using fake postal labels to ship parcels from China to the United States.

Lufthansa’s cargo subsidiary is gradually taking over cargo management for sister airline ITA Airways, following Lufthansa’s recent investment in the Italian carrier.

Postal workers in Canada have threatened to go on strike Friday, which would shut down most delivery services and hurt businesses that depend on Canada Post to fulfill orders.

Microsoft has joined a sustainable aviation fuel program managed by its logistics provider and a major cargo airline.

E-commerce logistics startup Stord has acquired Ware2Go from UPS.

Polar Air Cargo is gone, but another person involved in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the company years ago just got sentenced to two years in prison.

DHL has added a fourth cold-storage building to its pharmaceutical hub near Frankfurt, Germany.

The White House has temporarily relaxed duties on parcel imports from China that entered the country without duty prior to May 2, but efforts continue to eliminate the de minimis exemption altogether.

DHL continues to ramp up investment in the e-commerce space with a large stake in U.K.-based parcel delivery company Evri.

Amazon will outsource delivery of large packages to FedEx in a deal that should prove more profitable on a per-shipment level than shipments under the companies’ partnership that ended six years ago.

The U.S. Postal Service continues to face challenges erasing its losses.

The U.S. Postal Service’s board of governors on Friday named David Steiner as the next postmaster general, but the choice isn’t official yet. News reports say he was first approved by President Trump.

DHL’s supply chain unit says it plans to close a distribution center in Ontario, California.

China Airlines is investing in 14 next-gen 777 jetliners from Boeing, including all-cargo aircraft.

The U.S. Postal Service board of governors is set to vote soon on a FedEx official to lead the agency, according to a newspaper report.

DHL has targeted e-commerce logistics as a primary growth area. On Tuesday, it acquired Indiana-based specialist IDS Fulfillment.

FedEx continues to implement its Tricolor efficiency strategy with the conversion of a 777 freighter aircraft from its parcel to its heavy air cargo network.

Amazon is investing heavily in rural last-mile delivery as a hedge against Walmart, a prominent analyst says.

Amazon contract carrier Sun Country Airlines says finding parts is slightly slowing deployment of new Amazon freighter aircraft.

DHL Group is trimming some airline partners to reduce excess capacity in its air network as part of an effort to maintain growth in a turbulent market.

The cargo airline division of ocean shipping giant CMA CGM has more than doubled its small fleet with the acquisition of Air Belgium and the purchase of a large Boeing freighter.

A U.S. Postal Service distribution center in Tampa is closed after a wall collapsed Monday night.

UPS is downsizing its workforce as it pulls back from delivering packages for Amazon, its largest customer.

DHL said it is resuming deliveries of B2C shipments over $800 after U.S. authorities relaxed rules that had increased red tape for processing medium-value shipments.

An asset management company in Dubai has placed a large order to convert used Airbus A330 passenger aircraft to an all-cargo configuration for customers in the India market.

Global logistics company Ceva plans to purchase Borusan Tedarik, a 3PL in Turkey, for $400 million.

Eric Kulisch has been named managing editor of PostalMag, a Firecrown publication that covers logistics along with FreightWaves.

UPS is expanding its precision logistics capabilities in the pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors with an agreement to purchase Andlauer Healthcare Group in Canada.

A proposed trilateral cargo partnership among Qatar Airways, IAG Group and Malaysia Airlines will extend each airline’s global reach, the carriers say.

The air cargo industry could see revenues cut by billions of dollars and China-US air rates plunge by 30% or more when the Trump administration revokes duty-free treatment for small e-commerce shipments, according to one logistics expert’s scenario modeling.

DHL says it will pause accepting certain B2C shipments after U.S. authorities eliminated the informal entry process for shipments under $2,500, which has swamped the company’s ability to process formal entries.

A UPS white paper promotes the benefits of traditional express carriers over gig logistics providers, but the TD Cowen/AFS Logistics Freight Index shows why businesses might like the lower prices from newer last-mile providers.

FedEx has added another link to its deferred air cargo network with regularly scheduled all-cargo flights from Singapore to Alaska.

Hong Kong is suspending postal service for packages destined for the United States as the trade war between China and the U.S. heats up.

UPS has selected Delta Airlines to maintain engines for its fleet of Boeing 757 freighters.

Transair, a small all-cargo operator in Hawaii, is preparing to restart business after a serious accident in 2021 and a failed FAA attempt to pull its operating certificate.

U.S. parcel volumes hit a record in 2024, but new competitors like Amazon, Walmart and OnTrac are eroding the market share of FedEx and UPS, a new report says.

The U.S. Postal Service is recommending mail and postcard rates be increased about 5 cents to 7 cents, depending on the type of mail.

Low-value shipments from China to the United States are expected to plunge in May when their eligibility for duty-free status ends and new tariffs of 104% are applied to e-commerce orders.

DHL said a major new investment will help double revenue for health care logistics by 2030 while FedEx says its technology enhancements are bringing in a surge of new health care customers.

UPS has changed the name of its SurePost economy service, which it used to manage in conjunction with the U.S. Postal Service.

Amazon has restructured its air network to accommodate the need for fewer short-haul package flights and a new clientele of shippers with heavy freight.

The Trump administration is ratcheting up regulation of e-commerce shipments from China by removing a pathway for duty-free, expedited entry that critics say has been exploited by drug gangs and counterfeiters to smuggle illegal products into the U.S.

Ocean carrier CMA CGM continues to invest in air cargo. The latest moves include the acquisition of troubled Air Belgium and its logistics subsidiary launching a China-U.S. air charter service.

A UPS modernization project will require its Portland, Oregon, package hub to temporarily close for more than a year, putting some jobs at risk.

Germany’s DHL Group is acquiring U.S.-based CryoPDP to boost its health care logistics business.

A new Senate resolution calls for Congress to ensure the Trump administration doesn’t make any drastic changes to the U.S. Postal Service.