Amazon is reportedly considering discontinuing use of the US Postal Service and building out its own shipping network to rival it, according to The data-i13n=”cpos:1;pos:1″ href=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/04/usps-amazon-delivery/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:Washington Post;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>Washington Post. The e-commerce behemoth spends more than $6 billion a year on the public mail carrier, representing just shy of 8 percent of the service’s data-i13n=”cpos:2;pos:1″ href=”https://news.usps.com/2025/11/14/usps-reports-year-end-financial-results-2/?utm_source=chatgpt.com” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:total revenues;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>total revenues. That’s up from just shy of data-i13n=”cpos:3;pos:1″ href=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/09/17/usps-trump-coronavirus-amazon-foia/?utm_source=chatgpt.com” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:$4 billion in 2019;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>$4 billion in 2019, and Amazon continues to grow.
However, it sounds like that split might be due to a breakdown in negotiations between Amazon and the USPS…
