USPS shipping stations in heavily-populated areas like Atlanta house “mountains of mail,” while Amazon pays the USPS tens-of-millions of dollars a month to ensure their packages arrive on time.
“We don’t mail, we deliver,” is a phrase defining the implementation of Amazon packages into the post office’s regular routes.
Corey Walton, a USPS driver and podcaster, began as a rural carrier in Nashville in the late 80s, eventually moving to a city carrier where he had worked for 33 years.
Walton’s podcast, “From A to Arbitration Podcast,” covers the experiences and pitfalls of the USPS worker, especially in the age of Amazon and proposed privatization.
Walton spoke on the influx of Amazon deliveries at the post office, saying, “We appreciate the business obviously. I don’t know that we get paid very much per package, but, in the business we’re in, we’ll take whatever.”
Amazon has acquired a large portion of the delivery-market, with Digital Commerce 360 reporting on July 1, 2025, “In 2024, Amazon Logistics delivered 6.3 billion packages…That puts it just behind USPS, which handled 6.9 billion parcels and held a 31% share. At this pace, Amazon is on track to overtake USPS in total parcel volume by 2028.”
While many postal service workers appreciate the competition and business, what many do not appreciate is the additional Sunday deliveries and the lack of added compensation for the excess parcels sorted and delivered.
Amazon will likely overtake usps with some shady hand in hand deal. They exhaust the workers, the lpos do not see a cent of the money from this contract despite massive volume increase. Buildings need to be retrofitted and more staff brought on to accommodate but that’s not happening.
Amen