How Many Amazon Orders Per Year? 6.9 Billion US Parcels

Amazon publishes no order count, but its carrier delivered 6.9 billion US parcels in 2025

Amazon does not disclose an order total in its filings or its press releases. Its annual 10-K report gives sales in dollars by segment, and its releases give item counts for fast deliveries and for some Prime Day events. For the US, the nearest measured stand-in for orders is parcels. The Pitney Bowes Parcel Shipping Index, a yearly measure of US parcel volume by carrier, credits Amazon Logistics with 6.9 billion parcels delivered in 2025. That is up 9% on 2024 and, by our division, 29.9% of the 23.1 billion parcels shipped in the country.

Amazon’s own largest count is items. In a February 2026 release it said more than 13 billion items reached Prime members the same day or the next day worldwide in 2025, over 8 billion of them in the US, where the count grew by more than 30%. That is a subset of everything Amazon sells: items that took longer, and every order from a shopper without Prime, fall outside it.

Orders, items, parcels and dollars: how each source counts Amazon

Every published figure counts a different unit, and none of them counts orders. An order is 1 checkout. It can hold several items and leave the warehouse in more than 1 box, and a shopper’s separate orders can travel in the same box. So the item counts run higher than the parcel counts, and neither converts cleanly into orders.

Source	Unit counted	Scope	Latest figure	Period
Amazon delivery release	Same or next-day item deliveries	Prime members, worldwide	13 billion+	2025
Amazon delivery release	Same or next-day item deliveries	Prime members, US	8 billion+	2025
Pitney Bowes Parcel Shipping Index	Parcels delivered by Amazon Logistics	US	6.9 billion	2025
Amazon 10-K	Net sales, every segment	Worldwide	$716.9 billion	2025
Marketplace Pulse	Gross merchandise value, Amazon and its sellers	Worldwide	$830 billion	2025
Amazon Prime Day history	Items bought during the event	Worldwide	375 million+	Prime Day 2023, 2 days

Pitney Bowes counts parcels by the carrier that delivers them. An Amazon order that USPS or UPS carries to the door is in that carrier’s total, so 6.9 billion measures what Amazon’s own delivery network handled, not every Amazon order. The dollar figures part ways for a similar reason. The 10-K books Amazon’s sales of its own stock at the full price but records only its share of a third-party seller’s sale, while Marketplace Pulse, which tracks Amazon’s marketplace, adds up the full value of goods from both.

Amazon volume per day, hour and second

Spread over a year, the official counts come to tens of millions of units a day. The table divides each 2025 total evenly by 365 days. Amazon’s 10-K says its sales volume runs highest in the fourth quarter, so the busiest weeks sit above these averages and quieter weeks below them.

Count (source, 2025)	Per year	Per day	Per hour	Per second
Same or next-day items, worldwide (Amazon)	13 billion+	35.6 million+	1.48 million+	412+
Same or next-day items, US (Amazon)	8 billion+	21.9 million+	913,000+	254+
Amazon Logistics parcels, US (Pitney Bowes)	6.9 billion	18.9 million	788,000	219
All US parcels, every carrier (Pitney Bowes)	23.1 billion	63.3 million	2.64 million	732

All carriers together moved 63.3 million US parcels a day in 2025, Pitney Bowes says, or 171 for each household over the year. That ratio implies about 135 million households, and dividing Amazon Logistics’ 6.9 billion parcels among them gives about 51 per household, roughly 1 a week.

Handling that volume shows up in Amazon’s costs. Fulfillment, the expense line for operating and staffing its fulfillment centers and for picking, packing and preparing orders for shipment, came to $109.1 billion in 2025, up 10.7%, and it is the largest operating expense after cost of sales. Shipping costs, which Amazon books inside cost of sales, rose 7.2% to $102.7 billion. At the end of the year Amazon employed about 1,576,000 people, full-time and part-time, and it brings in independent contractors and temporary workers on top of that headcount.

Amazon Logistics against USPS, UPS and FedEx

Amazon Logistics passed USPS in 2025 and delivered more US parcels that year than any other carrier, Pitney Bowes found. Its parcels grew 9% to 6.9 billion, while USPS fell 8.8% to 6.2 billion and UPS fell 8.7% to 4.3 billion as the national carriers moved toward higher-margin parcels and away from volume for its own sake.

Carrier	Parcels, 2024	Parcels, 2025	Change	Share of 2025 parcels	Share of 2025 carrier revenue
Amazon Logistics	6.3 billion	6.9 billion	+9%	29.9%	15.5%
USPS	6.9 billion	6.2 billion	-8.8%	26.8%	14.9%
UPS	4.7 billion	4.3 billion	-8.7%	18.6%	31.6%
FedEx	3.7 billion	3.9 billion	+5.1%	16.9%	30.8%
Regional carriers and last-mile startups	0.8 billion	1.8 billion	+127%	7.8%	7.2%
All carriers	22.4 billion	23.1 billion	+3.3%	100%	100%

US parcels delivered by carrier, 2025

• Amazon Logistics6.9B
• USPS6.2B
• UPS4.3B
• FedEx3.9B
• Regional and last-mile carriers1.8B

Source: Pitney Bowes Parcel Shipping Index, 2026 report

Volume and revenue rank the carriers differently. Amazon Logistics carried 29.9% of US parcels but earned 15.5% of carrier revenue, while UPS took 31.6% of revenue with 18.6% of the parcels. Revenue per parcel across all carriers rose 2.9% to $9.34, after falling in 2023 and 2024. Volume at regional carriers and last-mile startups rose 127%, driven by Shein and Temu, by Pitney Bowes’ account.

US parcel volume has doubled since 2016, when the country shipped 11.5 billion parcels, and Pitney Bowes’ central forecast reaches 31 billion by 2031, about 5% growth a year.

Amazon sales from orders: online stores, seller services and GMV

Amazon reports what its orders are worth, if not how many there are. Of $716.9 billion in 2025 net sales, 2 segments carry most of the retail orders: online stores, which is mainly Amazon’s sales of its own stock, and third-party seller services, the commissions and related fulfillment and shipping fees it charges sellers.

Segment, $ billions	2023	2024	2025	Change, 2024 to 2025
Online stores	231.9	247.0	269.3	+9.0%
Third-party seller services	140.1	156.1	172.2	+10.3%
Physical stores	20.0	21.2	22.6	+6.3%
All net sales, including AWS and advertising	574.8	638.0	716.9	+12.4%

Seller fees are growing faster than Amazon’s own retail sales: up 22.9% over 2 years, against 16.1% for online stores. 2026 has run faster still. Amazon’s 10-Q for the second quarter of 2026 shows online stores up 14.6% to $70.4 billion and third-party seller services up 15.9% to $46.8 billion, in a quarter that held Prime Day 2026 against a second quarter of 2025 that did not. Over the first half, the 2 segments grew 13.3% and 15.0%.

Marketplace Pulse estimates that Amazon and its sellers sold $830 billion of goods in 2025, of which $255 billion was first-party and $575 billion came from third-party sellers, both growing about 9%. Sellers’ share of that value has risen from 60% in 2019 to 69%, while their share of units has held at 61% to 62% for 5 quarters in a row. The average third-party item therefore sells for more than the average item Amazon stocks itself. The US makes up about $440 billion of the total, roughly 36% of US ecommerce by Marketplace Pulse’s count.

Prime Day item counts by year

Prime Day is the clearest public look at Amazon’s peak. Amazon’s Prime Day history gives worldwide item totals for 6 events between 2015 and 2023, and the count grew about 11 times over that span as the event stretched from 24 hours to 2 days.

Prime Day	Length and reach	Items bought worldwide	Items per 24 hours (our arithmetic)
2015	24 hours, 9 countries	34.4 million+	34.4 million
2018	36 hours, 17 countries	100 million+	66.7 million
2019	48 hours, 19 countries	175 million+	87.5 million
2021	2 days, 20 countries	250 million+	125 million
2022	2 days, 20+ countries	300 million+	150 million
2023	2 days, 24 countries	375 million+	187.5 million
2024	2 days, 24 countries	Not published; independent sellers alone sold 200 million+	100 million+ from sellers alone
2025	4 days, 25+ countries	Not published	Not published

Items bought worldwide during Prime Day

• 201534.4M
• 2018100M
• 2019175M
• 2021250M
• 2022300M
• 2023375M

Source: Amazon, The history of Prime Day (each figure is a lower bound)

Set against an ordinary day, the peak is steep. Prime Day 2023 averaged more than 187 million items a day, while Amazon’s 2025 count of same or next-day items works out to 35.6 million a day, a count that leaves slower deliveries out. In 2022 Amazon said members bought more than 100,000 items a minute during the event, about 1,667 a second, against 398 a second at the first Prime Day in 2015.

The event has also moved. Prime Day ran for 4 days for the first time in July 2025, and in 2026 it was held in June, which pulled its sales into Amazon’s second quarter. The 10-Q says that excluding Prime Day in both years, its guidance for third-quarter 2026 growth would be nearly 400 basis points higher.

What Amazon’s order volume means for a brand shipping its own orders

Shoppers set their delivery clock on Amazon. In 2025 Amazon got over 8 billion US items to buyers on the day of the order or the day after, and its deliveries in under a day rose 70%. Amazon reaches those speeds by holding stock in its own fulfillment network close to buyers, and in 2025 it brought free same or next-day delivery to over 4,000 smaller cities, towns and rural areas as part of a $4 billion rural delivery investment. A brand shipping ground from 1 building cannot offer next-day delivery to most of the country, so the first fix is stock placement: a second warehouse, or a 3PL that can split inventory between an eastern and a western building.

The carriers are repricing around Amazon’s volume. With USPS and UPS each delivering about 9% fewer parcels in 2025 and revenue per parcel up 2.9%, the national carriers are choosing margin over volume. Regional carriers and last-mile startups, which Pitney Bowes says compete on dense metro lanes at lower cost, more than doubled. Before comparing per-order fees, ask a 3PL which carriers it rate-shops on each order and whether regional carriers are in that mix.

Carriers and warehouse labor are shared across shippers, so Amazon’s peaks reach everyone’s parcels. The fourth quarter is Amazon’s busiest by its own account, and Prime Day moved from July in 2025 to June in 2026, so an inbound plan has 2 peaks to clear. Book inbound freight and receiving slots for both before the quarter starts, and ask the 3PL for its peak surcharges and its cut-off dates for receiving stock.

Most units on Amazon come from third-party sellers, 61% to 62% by Marketplace Pulse’s estimate. A brand among them chooses between paying Amazon to store and ship its stock and shipping orders itself or through a 3PL, and the choice usually turns on how many channels draw on the same inventory. One pool of stock at a 3PL can serve Amazon, the brand’s own site and wholesale accounts. Stock sent into Amazon’s warehouses is set up for Amazon orders, and other channels pay separate multi-channel fees to use it.

Fast delivery is getting more expensive for Amazon too. Its shipping costs rose 19.2% in the second quarter of 2026 to $27.9 billion, faster than online stores sales (up 14.6%) or third-party seller services (up 15.9%) over the same quarter. Price a next-day service and a ground service separately in every 3PL quote, because the gap between them is where the cost of matching Amazon shows up.