Concerns over a proposed plan to optimize mail delivery in the rural parts of Missouri remain unresolved months later.

U.S. Postal Service officials have estimated it could save more than $3 billion by consolidating operations in rural communities. It plans to do so by ending afternoon mail collections at post ...

Amazon and Walmart in recent years have become significant rivals to FedEx, UPS and the U.S. Postal Service in the parcel ... Amazon announced the rural delivery expansion last week.

The e-commerce giant hands off some packages to the U.S. Postal Service and UPS for final-mile delivery, but both carriers have explored changes to their rural delivery operations to increase ...

with more made available via the Delivery Service Partner (DSP) and Amazon Flex contract driver programs. Once this expansion is complete, Amazon expects it will be able to deliver more than 1 ...

The Postal Service is also using 5-digit zip code ... Up from 28 cents to 29 cents. The Rural Free Delivery program was established in 1906 to ensure rural communities received mail directly ...

FedEx’s new deal comes nearly six years after its express business dropped Amazon, and about four months since archrival UPS cut its Amazon business in half.