UPS Ends SurePost Agreement with USPS, Shippers Face Changes

On January 1, the SurePost relationship between Atlanta-based global freight transportation and logistics services provider UPS and the United States Postal Service (USPS) officially came to an end, upon the expiration of the companies’ negotiated service agreement (NSA).

Introduced in early 2011 by UPS, SurePost is an economy ground service for delivery to residential locations. It is a “contract-only service that combines the consistency and reliability of the UPS Ground network, from pickup through transferring to the Post Office, with the cost benefits of using the United States Postal Service (USPS) for final de…