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Canada Post and union negotiators will head back to the bargaining table next week amid ongoing operational and financial challenges.

Amazon is scaling up same-day delivery for fresh groceries, giving it the ability to capture more of the online grocery market.

UPS’s 11th-hour resolution of multiple labor grievances has prevented the Teamsters from orchestrating a strike at multiple facilities.

UPS is closing a shift in Texas and a facility in North Carolina as part of network reconfiguration, which will cost dozens of workers their jobs.

Driver subscriptions for UPS’s buyout offer are lower than expected, forcing the company to give workers more time to make a decision.

The U.S. Postal Service intends to add a temporary delivery surcharge on packages for the peak shipping season, starting in early October.

The U.S. Postal Service is on track to lose nearly $7 billion in the current fiscal year as inflation made it difficult to hold the line on costs in the third quarter.

DHL said the U.S. crackdown on tariff-free trade for cheap overseas packages is impacting volumes and its bottom line.

Canada Post mail carriers turned down the company’s last contract offer, extending a 20–month labor dispute that has helped private couriers siphon package business from the postal operator.

Sun Country Airlines is preparing the final three aircraft from Amazon to enter into service by the end of this quarter, just in time for the peak shipping season.

The brother of Patrick Tillman, who joined the Army in the middle of a promising NFL career and died in Afghanistan, has been charged with setting fire to a U.S. post office.

The Trump administration is wiping out duty-free treatment for low-cost imports shipped by e-commerce retailers direct to consumers as it ratchets up tariffs on countries around the world.

UPS’s stock price slid Tuesday after it reported lower parcel volumes and difficulty cutting costs as it works to right-size its delivery network.

The Teamsters union says the UPS offer to buy out delivery drivers from their contract is a slap in the face.

UPS has notified workers at a New Orleans facility that they will lose their jobs as the company downsizes its physical footprint.

Businesses will stop using Canada Post if workers decide to go on strike again, worsening the existing mail drain, according to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

Many businesses are diverting parcel shipments to cheaper carriers as FedEx and UPS hike rates and surcharges, according to the latest TD Cowen/AFS Freight Index.

The Canadian government is going around union leadership to force a vote on Canada Post’s contract offer to mail carriers. Voting starts next week.

Four years into its turnaround plan, the U.S. Postal Service is still a work in progress. New Postmaster General David Steiner now has the job of returning the agency to financial health.

The American Postal Workers Union and the U.S. Postal Service have finalized a new collective bargaining agreement.