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CTOnews.com, Nov. 28 (Xinhua)-- Amazon has become the largest delivery company in the United States, surpassing UPS and FedEx in terms of package volume, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The e-commerce giant is expected to deliver a total of 4.8 billion packages by Black Friday and Cyber Monday, surpassing its competitors in annual shipments in the United States for the first time, according to Amazon's latest internal data. About 5.9 billion parcels are expected by the end of 2023. By contrast, UPS had about 3.4 billion packages in the United States in the first nine months of this year, and the total number of packages in 2023 is not expected to exceed last year's 5.3 billion. FedEx, on the other hand, has fewer packages in the United States, both of which include packages eventually delivered by the United States Postal Service.

The Seattle-based e-commerce giant delivered more packages to American homes than UPS in 2022, surpassed FedEx in 2020, and will further expand its lead this year, according to Amazon's internal data and people familiar with the matter. The U.S. Postal Service (The Postal Service) remains the largest parcel service by volume, handling hundreds of millions of parcels for the three companies.

CTOnews.com notes that as Amazon's share of the express delivery market grows, FedEx and UPS have said in recent years that they are not competing for package volume, but are focusing on delivering more profitable packages. FedEx parted ways with Amazon in 2019, which accounts for about 11% of UPS's revenue.

Ten years ago, Amazon was an important customer for UPS and FedEx. Amazon's rise as the largest delivery company was once regarded as absurd by the logistics industry's CEO. In 2016, FedEx's predecessor CEO Fred Smith (Fred Smith) rejected the possibility of Amazon becoming a threat to the logistics giant, calling it "fantasy." "for the foreseeable future, the main carriers of e-commerce packages will be UPS, the United States Postal Service and FedEx," Smith said at the time. "

At the time of Smith's comments, Amazon lagged far behind UPS and FedEx in the express market. But in the years that followed, the company built one of the world's largest logistics networks, bridging the gap.

In 2018, Amazon launched a program that allows entrepreneurs to get Amazon package delivery franchises for as little as $10, 000. Amazon's program, which has about 200000 drivers in the United States, has helped the company rapidly increase the number of parcels it can deliver every day.

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