Amazon Saves USPS: New Deal for Rural Deliveries

0:00It's April 7th. This is Vancouver News today, AI-powered stories from your city. I'm Cory with the story. Amazon just locked in a fresh deal with the US. Postal service, breathing new life into the struggling agency while keeping packages flowing to rural customers across America. This agreement keeps USPS holding on to most of its business from Amazon. Its biggest client, which is huge for staving off those massive yearly losses. This massive general, David Steiner, has been sounding the alarm, warning the Postal service might run out of cash as early as next year, so he's pushing. Congress to hike the borrowing limit and even auctioned off access to delivery spots. Amazon jumped in on that bidding back in February. Meanwhile, Amazon's doubling down on rural deliveries with a $4 billion investment announced last year, recruiting small-town business owners, as part-time carriers for quick drops. By year's end, they'll have 200 rural stations ready to stage packages for that final

1:00doorstep push, strengthening the partnership, and speeding things up for folks off the beaten path.