When no one has a decent paying job anymore then no one will be shipping anything anywhere.

interests above all. A corporation may have other priorities - welfare of employees, good will of customers and vendors - but shareholders interest - usually profits - must prevail.

fighting against unions and DEI and kissing up to shithole, I am done with Amazon.

Fuck Bezos and his sucking up to the fucking asshole bullshit.

Are the 1% okay with him tanking the economy? Are their investments so diverse this won't hurt them? Seems to me, so goes the American economy, so goes the global one. Then I remember climate change & think this is their last chance to suck up everything left of beauty & value on planet Earth before we toast it all. They are going to be kings of a pile of rubble.

Makes me want to vomit....

they buy stuff cheaply during recessions. Lowest income people get screwed hardest of course, as MAGA have been cutting benefits and social programs. Middle class get squeezed while the wealthy are looking forward to more tax cuts.

No matter how wealthy some people get, it will never be enough. Just look the wealthiest man in the world cutting up our national institutions and programs.

the wealthy buy up assets; property, businesses, stocks, homes, etc that the working class is forced to sell for pennies on the dollar. Then, as the economy recovers the working class finds jobs and gradually accumulates enough money to buy those assets at increasingly inflated prices, often leveraged with borrowed money. Obviously when they buy the assets their money goes to the wealthy. Eventually the cycle peaks and the working class has as much ownership of the assets as they are going to get, and the wealthy has as much of the money produced by the working class as they are going to get. Then the economy tanks again. The workers are forced to sell, often at a loss, as they lose their jobs. The wealthy buy the assets as cheaply as possible with the money that they received from selling assets to the workers on the way up. The economic cycle is just a way to squeeze value from the workers while allowing the wealthy to alternately hoard assets and money, releasing the assets when profitable and the money in exchange for work from the workers.

while the wealthy have excess cash from their tax cuts. It's amazing that more people don't see it. This has been happening for decades. Trump is extraordinarily stupid about not even trying to hide it.

or Amazon tanking. I think that will happen in a big way, and will probably make 20,000 look like a small number before all is said and done.

This is mainly about Amazon's continued build-out of its freight and home delivery capability. UPS made a deal with the devil as Amazon sought to grow quickly. And now the devil starts to get his due. These deals allow Amazon to keep their internal resources efficiently busy while UPS, Fedex, and USPS have to eat the scraps.

Direct orders from Putin

people trying to punish Amazon.

Someone very very close to me works in that industry and is nearing retirement. This is not good at all.

Empty, empty, empty.

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Twelve vessels are scheduled to come in this week, down from 22 the week of April 20. Measured in shipping containers, a total of 62,568 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) are arriving the week of May 4-May 10, versus 120,608 TEUs as recently as the week of April 20-April 26.

The fallout from the ocean freight slowdown is beginning to hit ground transport linked to ports.

"We are at a tipping point on the West Coast," said Ken Adamo, chief of analytics at DAT Freight & Analytics. "Looking at how many truck loads are available versus trucks, we've seen a precipitous drop, over 700,000 loads have evaporated nationally in the past week compared to two weeks prior," he said.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/busiest-us-ports-see-big-drop-in-chinese-freight-vessel-traffic.html

Just wait tll the end of May. Amazon's getting ready for major disruptions. I hope I can still get cheap coffee beans from somewhere. Maybe a corner seller with a donkey and a 2-wheeled cart?

some how you got the first sentence or two wrong. It has nothing to do with Amazon. It is strictly an ups’ decision to accept fewer deliveries. Amazon actually wanted to increase the volume.

Sucks for us, as ups is very good here. We are doomed if fed ex gets more as they can’t deliver a package to the right address, not matter how many we get delivered here. Then again, as a delivery partner. It sounds like long term security.

I am so tired of inaccurate headlines when things are so bad that they are not needed. It reminds me of MAGA’s.

This is LBN where the content is coming from a news site (whether we agree with how it is characterized or not but it is not the OP issue).

Is the posters responsibility, regardless of the source.

This was a copy/paste from CBS's 11:43 am EDT version. I didn't compose this myself. They just updated it at 3:01 EDT.

This is the version that was copied/pasted for the current OP -



This is the most recent version on CBS's site -

Perhaps you should go back and read what the first few sentences of your post says vs. the article you linked. You can copy and paste a thousand articles, it isn’t going to change the fact that the op is incorrect. That’s all. Nothing more. As the other poster noted. It’s not correct.

Here is what you posted.

UPS on Tuesday announced it is planning to cut 20,000 jobs this year, part of a cost-cutting effort that's linked to fewer deliveries from Amazon, its biggest customer.

This is a direct copy from the linked article.

UPS on Tuesday announced it is planning to cut 20,000 jobs this year, part of a cost-cutting effort that's linked to the delivery giant's decision to deliver fewer packages from Amazon, its biggest customer.

I only caught it because the post wasn’t was somewhat confusing so I went to the linked article to better understand. There is no way that was a direct copy and paste from the linked article. Maybe you accidentally copied something else? That’s all. Please fix it to reflect what was actually written. I don’t want to see the site get into any trouble because someone misrepresented an article. Thanks..

The link on your op IS NOT what you keep posting. At least not for me. And I see it was just updated at 4:39. I guess I am going to alert, sorry. It’s wrong and you are unwilling to fix it. Thanks.

Now, this 50% cut of Amazon volumes was announced by UPS in January, so it predates the tariffs.

What’s really going on. Then again, their stock has been on a downhill trajectory for quite a while now.