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Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc (Getty Images)Amazon will deliver more packages in 2023 than anyone, according to a report Monday from the Wall Street Journal. The tech giant is on track to surpass UPS and FedEx in shipping volume this year, and it seems fitting that a tech giant will undoubtedly ship more gifts than anyone this Cyber Monday.Top 5 Shopping Tips for Amazon Prime DayThere’s a quiet changing of the guard in the delivery sector. Amazon is on track to deliver 5.9 billion packages in 2023, according to…

You might see an Amazon package next time you visit the bodega, the florist, the coffee shop, or any one thousands of other small businesses that will deliver packages in 23 US states as part of an effort by the company to beef up its “Amazon Hub Delivery” program. The expansion is the latest attempt by Amazon to turn to outside partners to cut delivery times andcosts in the historically expensive “last mile” of shipping.Uh Oh, Amazon Bought Your Favorite Robot CompanyThe program, first reported on by Axios and confirmed…

The United Kingdom’s answer to the U.S. Postal Service, Royal Mail, is warnings its customers to hold onto international letters and packages for now. The courier is “experiencing a severe service disruption,” impacting its ability to send items abroad because of a “cyber incident,” Royal Mail wrote in a vague news statement on its website on Wednesday. The company also noted the issue on its social media pages.Any items already distributed to Royal Mail, intended for overseas delivery are likely to face delays, the mail…

Image: USPSThe United States Postal Service is being dragged kicking and screaming into an electric vehicle future. It only took a mass public outcry, lawsuits form 16 different states, and an impassioned plea from the president himself to get them there.Though the USPS previously decided on a 90%/10% split of gas and electric powered vehicles to power its new fleet, the agency turned on a dime this week, announcing it would spend nearly $10 billion to acquire 66,000 electric EV trucks by 2028. That’s more than half of…

FedEx is calling it quits on its cute but mostly ineffective “Roxo” last mile autonomous delivery robot. The move comes just weeks after Amazon ended field tests and gutted the team working on its Scout delivery robot.Meet the team that’s developing Roxo, the FedEx SameDay BotSriram Krishnasamy, the package delivery giant’s Chief Transformation Officer, reportedly broke the news to staff of Roxo’s shattering last week as part of a broader internal organizational program called DRIVE, according to emails first obtained by…

The number of products we’re buying online keeps going up and up, and that means you’re likely to have more and more packages coming to your address. When something you’ve ordered doesn’t show up, that can be hugely frustrating—and potentially very expensive too. Here’s what to do should that worst case scenario happen.Note that most retailers and postal services will act differently depending on whether your package has gone missing in transit (which is clearly their fault) or has been marked as delivered and has…