How Many Packages Are Delivered Each Day? 63.3M US Parcels

About 63.3 million parcels are delivered in the US each day

The Pitney Bowes Parcel Shipping Index, an annual count of US parcel volume and revenue across every carrier, puts 2025 at 23.1 billion parcels. Spread over the year, that is 63.3 million parcels a day and 732 a second, or 171 for each household. Volume was 3.3% above the 2024 total of 22.4 billion, and revenue per parcel rose 2.9% to $9.34 after falling in 2023 and 2024.

The order of the carriers changed in 2025. Amazon Logistics delivered 6.9 billion US parcels, 9% more than a year earlier, and passed USPS to become the largest parcel carrier by volume, at about 18.9 million parcels a day by our division. USPS and UPS each carried fewer parcels than in 2024, FedEx carried more, and the regional and last-mile carriers grew volume 127%.

Why carrier daily counts run higher than 63.3 million

A carrier’s own per-day number divides its year’s packages by the days it worked, not by 365. UPS states its count: 252 operating days in 2025. FedEx averages over a 5-day week. USPS delivers 6 and often 7 days a week, and its fiscal 2025 package total divided by its own daily average comes to about 301 days. Pitney Bowes divides by every day on the calendar, so its carrier figures look smaller than the ones in earnings releases.

Carrier	Figure as published	Days it divides by	Period	Per calendar day (our arithmetic)
USPS	22.7 million packages a day	Delivery days, about 301 a year	Fiscal 2025, October to September	18.7 million
UPS	17.51 million US packages a day	252 operating days	Calendar 2025	12.1 million
FedEx	14.6 million US packages a day	5 days a week	Fiscal 2026, June 2025 to May 2026	10.4 million
All carriers (Pitney Bowes)	63.3 million parcels a day	365 days	Calendar 2025	63.3 million

Year boundaries open a second gap. USPS closes its books at the end of September and FedEx at the end of May, while UPS and Pitney Bowes use calendar years, so the USPS and FedEx figures never cover the same 12 months as the other 2. Definitions open a third. USPS reported 6.84 billion pieces in its Shipping and Packages category in its fiscal 2025 results, while Pitney Bowes, counting calendar 2025 under its own definition of a parcel, credits USPS with 6.2 billion.

Packages per day by carrier in 2025

Pitney Bowes’ 2025 carrier split, with each annual total spread over 365 days:

Carrier	Parcels, 2024	Parcels, 2025	Change	Per day, 2025	Share of parcels	Share of revenue
Amazon Logistics	6.3 billion	6.9 billion	+9%	18.9 million	29.9%	15.5%
USPS	6.9 billion	6.2 billion	-8.8%	17.0 million	26.8%	14.9%
UPS	4.7 billion	4.3 billion	-8.7%	11.8 million	18.6%	31.6%
FedEx	3.7 billion	3.9 billion	+5.1%	10.7 million	16.9%	30.8%
Regional and last-mile carriers	0.8 billion	1.8 billion	+127%	4.9 million	7.8%	7.2%
All carriers	22.4 billion	23.1 billion	+3.3%	63.3 million	100%	100%

US parcels delivered per day by carrier, 2025

• Amazon Logistics18.9M
• USPS17M
• UPS11.8M
• FedEx10.7M
• Regional and last-mile carriers4.9M

Source: Pitney Bowes Parcel Shipping Index, 2026 report (annual volume divided by 365)

Volume and revenue rank the carriers in close to opposite order. UPS and FedEx delivered 35.5% of US parcels between them and collected 62.4% of carrier revenue, while Amazon Logistics and USPS delivered 56.7% and collected 30.4%.

Amazon Logistics: about 18.9 million parcels a day

Amazon’s delivery network carried 6.9 billion parcels across the US in 2025, and Pitney Bowes ranks it first by volume for the first time, ahead of USPS, UPS and FedEx. That averages about 18.9 million parcels a day. A parcel is not an order, because 1 checkout can leave the warehouse in more than 1 box, and Amazon does not publish an order total of its own to set beside the parcel count. Its 15.5% share of carrier revenue sits well below its 29.9% share of parcels.

USPS: 22.7 million packages per delivery day

In its fiscal year to September 2025, USPS moved 6.84 billion packages, down 5.7% or 415 million pieces, while revenue from packages grew 1.0% and reached $32.6 billion. Its Postal Facts page puts the 2025 average at 22.7 million packages a day, carried alongside 361.1 million mailpieces a day. Those packages ride a network built for letters: USPS delivers to more than 170 million addresses 6 and often 7 days a week and takes parcels in at its post offices as well as from business docks.

Packages are a small share of what USPS moves and a large share of what it earns. They were 6.3% of the 108.7 billion pieces it handled in fiscal 2025 and 40.5% of its $80.5 billion in operating revenue. Its package revenue comes to about $4.77 a package by our division, against $9.34 per parcel across all carriers in Pitney Bowes’ count.

UPS: 17.51 million US domestic packages a working day

Across 252 operating days in 2025, UPS averaged 17.51 million US domestic packages a day, down 8.6% from 19.16 million, its fourth-quarter 2025 release shows. Multiplied out, that is about 4.41 billion packages, or 12.1 million per calendar day, close to the 4.3 billion Pitney Bowes counts. The decline is deliberate: UPS is cutting volume from its largest customer, a reduction it calls the Amazon glide-down, and its chief executive expects 2026 to be the turning point once that is complete.

Price went the other way. US domestic revenue per piece rose 8.3% in the fourth quarter while revenue fell 3.2%, and UPS still took the largest share of US carrier revenue in 2025, 31.6%, down from 34.3% a year earlier.

FedEx: 14.6 million US packages per weekday

FedEx’s 10-K for the year to May 2026 reports 14.6 million US domestic packages a day, up 5%, on a 5-day-week basis, and 17.6 million worldwide once international export and intra-country volume are added. Spread over all 7 days, the US figure is about 10.4 million, in line with the 3.9 billion parcels, or 10.7 million a day, that Pitney Bowes counts for FedEx in calendar 2025. These counts measure FedEx as a carrier, moving boxes after someone else has picked and packed them, which is a different job from the warehouse work a 3PL takes on.

FedEx US service	Packages per weekday, FY2026	Change	Share of US domestic
Ground home delivery and economy	7.44 million	+6%	51.0%
Ground commercial	4.33 million	+2%	29.7%
Priority	1.68 million	+4%	11.5%
Deferred	1.14 million	+8%	7.8%
US domestic total	14.59 million	+5%	100%

Residential ground is the largest block: home delivery and economy made up 51.0% of FedEx’s US domestic packages, and the 10-K puts the growth down to business-to-consumer volume. FedEx ground reaches 100% of the continental US population, with delivery to 99% of it on Saturdays and nearly two-thirds on Sundays, and those weekend packages sit inside the 5-day average. Average US domestic revenue per package rose 6% to $14.75, and ground packages averaged $12.49.

Regional and last-mile carriers: about 4.9 million a day

Carriers outside the big 4 delivered 1.8 billion US parcels in 2025, up 127%, growth Pitney Bowes ties to rising volume from Shein and Temu. The group includes regional carriers such as OnTrac, GLS, LSO and Spee-Dee, which work dense metro lanes at lower cost than UPS and FedEx, and last-mile startups such as Veho and UniUni that focus on low-cost delivery to homes. Their share of carrier revenue climbed to 7.2%, against 3.4% in 2024.

Daily package volume by year, 2016 to 2025

US parcel volume grew 2.0 times in 9 years, from 11.5 billion in 2016 to 23.1 billion in 2025, by Pitney Bowes’ yearly series. The step change came in 2020, when volume rose 27.1% in a single year. The market then sat near 21.7 billion for 3 years before growing again in 2024 and 2025.

Year	US parcels	Per day (our division)	Growth on prior year
2016	11.5 billion	31.4 million	First year of the series
2017	12.6 billion	34.5 million	+9.6%
2018	13.9 billion	38.1 million	+10.3%
2019	15.4 billion	42.2 million	+10.9%
2020	19.6 billion	53.6 million	+27.1%
2021	21.7 billion	59.5 million	+10.8%
2022	21.6 billion	59.2 million	-0.8%
2023	21.7 billion	59.5 million	+0.5%
2024	22.4 billion	61.2 million	+3.4%
2025	23.1 billion	63.3 million	+3.3%

US parcels delivered per day, 2016 to 2025

• 201631.4M
• 201734.5M
• 201838.1M
• 201942.2M
• 202053.6M
• 202159.5M
• 202259.2M
• 202359.5M
• 202461.2M
• 202563.3M

Source: Pitney Bowes Parcel Shipping Index, 2026 report (annual volume divided by the days in each year)

Pitney Bowes’ most likely case has US volume reaching 31 billion parcels by 2031, growth of 5% a year from 2026, which would be about 85 million parcels a day. Its conservative case assumes 1% a year and its optimistic case 8%. At $9.34 a parcel, up 2.9%, 2025 carrier revenue comes to about $216 billion by our multiplication.

Peak season daily volume

Daily volume runs well above the yearly average in the last quarter. UPS averaged 19.97 million US domestic packages per operating day in the fourth quarter of 2025, 14% above its full-year average of 17.51 million, and those 62 operating days carried 28.1% of its year’s US packages by our arithmetic. The same quarter a year earlier averaged 22.38 million, 16.8% above that year’s average.

Pitney Bowes also measured on-time delivery for the 3 national carriers over the peak, and all 3 improved in 2025. It credits spare capacity in the market, later delivery commitments and network changes for the gains.

Carrier	On-time, 2024 peak	On-time, 2025 peak	Change
USPS	90.4%	94.1%	+3.7 points
UPS	96.5%	97.2%	+0.7 points
FedEx	91.8%	95.3%	+3.5 points

Packages delivered worldwide each day

Pitney Bowes’ global index for 2021 counted 159 billion parcels across 13 countries home to 3.8 billion people: about 436 million a day, or 5,000 a second, up 21% from 131 billion in 2020. China generated 108 billion of them, 67.9% of the total and 297 million a day. The US came second at 21.6 billion, 13.6%, a figure the 2026 US edition revises to 21.7 billion.

Country	Parcels, 2021	Per day
China	108 billion	297 million
United States	21.6 billion	59 million
Japan (parcels and packets)	9.2 billion	25 million
United Kingdom	5.4 billion	15 million
Germany	4.5 billion	12 million
India	2.7 billion	7.3 million
France	1.7 billion	4.5 million
Brazil	1.5 billion	4 million
Canada	1.5 billion	4 million
Italy	1.4 billion	4 million
Australia	1.1 billion	2.9 million
Sweden	227 million	621,000
Norway	114 million	312,000
13 countries	159 billion	436 million

Parcels per day by country, 2021

• China297M
• United States59M
• Japan25M
• United Kingdom15M
• Germany12M
• India7.3M
• France4.5M
• Brazil4M

Source: Pitney Bowes Parcel Shipping Index 2022 (2021 data)

The same edition expected global volume to grow 5.5% to 11.5% a year from 2022 and reach between 216 billion and 300 billion parcels by 2027, or 592 million to 822 million a day by our division. Its 13 countries leave out most of Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, so the true worldwide total is higher than any figure in the index.

What 63.3 million parcels a day means for a brand shipping orders

The carrier market is splitting, and a brand’s parcels sit in the middle of it. UPS is shedding volume on purpose and lifted US revenue per piece 8.3% in the fourth quarter, USPS delivered 8.8% fewer parcels in Pitney Bowes’ count, and regional and last-mile carriers grew 127%. A 3PL that sends every order through 1 national carrier leaves a brand exposed to each of that carrier’s price rises. Before signing, ask for the carrier split of last quarter’s parcels from a client of similar size and whether a regional carrier covers the zones where most of your buyers live.

Carriers deliver on weekends. FedEx ground delivers to 99% of the US population on Saturdays and nearly two-thirds on Sundays, and USPS delivers 6 and often 7 days a week, so an order packed on Friday afternoon can still move over the weekend. Whether it does depends on the warehouse, not the carrier: ask the 3PL for its daily carrier pickup times, its order cut-off and whether it picks and ships on Saturdays.

The fourth quarter strains the networks that every brand’s parcels share. UPS’s fourth-quarter days ran 14% above its yearly average in 2025, and that quarter carried 28.1% of its US packages. Book inbound stock to arrive before the 3PL’s peak receiving cut-off, and get its peak carrier surcharges in writing with the rest of the quote.

Returns are parcels too. Pitney Bowes counts consumer-to-business shipments, so every returned order adds a parcel to the total, and a return label bought at these carriers’ rates is the first line in the cost of an ecommerce return. A brand with a high return rate pays for 2 parcels on part of its orders, once out and once back.