UPS To Slash 30K Jobs, Shutter 24 Facilities

SANDY SPRINGS, GA — The United Parcel Service is planning to cut up to 30,000 jobs and shutter 24 buildings this year, Chief Financial Officer Brian Dykes said on a quarterly earnings call held Tuesday.

Dykes, on the webcast viewed by Patch, said the Atlanta-based package company will lessen its operational hours by about 25 million and will further evaluate additional buildings to close in the second quarter. He did not say where the closings will occur.

Impacted full-time drivers would be offered a voluntary separation package, Dykes said.

This comes after UPS slashed 48,000 operational jobs last year, terminating 15,000 seasonal positions and pulling the curtain on 93 leased and owned buildings.

"We continue to review expected changes in volume in our integrated air and ground network to identify additional buildings for closure. From this initiative, we computed year over year cost savings of approximately $3.5 billion in 2025," UPS said in a news release.

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In April 2025, President Donald Trump placed a 145 percent tariff on goods from China, a major source of goods for retail giant Amazon, UPS' largest customer.

The cost-cutting effort was linked to fewer deliveries from Amazon. In January 2025, UPS announced it had reached a deal with Amazon to lower its volume by more than 50 percent by the second half of 2026.

"We've been partnered to Amazon for nearly 30 years, and we hold that company in high regard," CEO Carol Tome said in the company's 2024 fourth-quarter earnings call. "Amazon is our largest customer, but it's not our most profitable customer."

As UPS pulls away from Amazon, Dykes on Tuesday said the company is targeting another $3 billion in savings this year. He added UPS is striving to "glide down its Amazon pieces" by 1,000 per day.

The company is hoping to profit a consolidated $89.7 billion by the end of the year, he said.

UPS has 289 stores in Georgia, and its headquarters is in Atlanta. The company also has major distribution centers in Duluth and Tifton.