UPS Shipping Changes Planned for 2025. Published Apr 02, 2025 at 7:30 AM EDT Updated Apr 02, 2025 at 7:20 PM EDT. By . Aliss Higham is a Newsweek reporter based in Glasgow, Scotland.

That wasn’t always the case. For decades, Amazon shipped its packages to customers like most other retailers did, using one of the three major shipping companies: UPS, FedEx, and the U.S. Postal ...

With one-day shipping, every minute counts. UPS can’t afford to waltz to the deepest depths of its warehouse, one item at a time, and expect to get it across the country in 24 hours.