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If you're looking for a way to make money driving, Amazon Flex is one option, but maybe not the best one. When you work for Amazon Flex, you set your own hours and deliver packages and groceries locally. Actual earnings depend on factors like tips, demand where you live and how much time you have for side work.

This proposed change is currently pending approval by federal regulators and is set to take effect this Sunday if authorized. Beyond first-class letters, the agency also proposes higher rates for postcards—including domestic postcards increasing to 65 cents and international postcards rising to $1.75. The USPS’s proposed rate adjustments will affect a range of mail products.

FedEx Freight’s strategy to streamline its processes and build a business structure specific to LTL shipping has led to improvements in the company’s customer experience metrics, President and CEO John Smith said on a call with analysts June 25. Noting improvements in its competitive edge, Smith credited a sales team deepening relationships with longstanding customers, a sales workforce back in service centers and new customer-facing technology the company developed the past year. “We're already seeing some early proof points of improvements across key customer experience metrics, including quarterly Mastio results,” he said of the LTL benchmarking resource.

© USPS Forever stamp price rises to 82¢ on July 12The U.S. Postal Service will raise the price of a Forever stamp to 82 cents on July 12, marking a 4-cent increase from the current 78 cents, as the agency grapples with rising operational costs and declining mail volume. In July 2025, the Forever stamp rose from 73 cents to 78 cents, a 5-cent jump, according to AARP.

The US Postal Service has been steadily lifting prices over the past few years as it tries to plug a widening financial gap and keep its vast delivery network running without direct taxpayer funding. In April, the agency formally announced this new round of hikes, arguing that higher stamp prices and new surcharges were unavoidable if it was to keep meeting its legal obligation to deliver mail to every address in the country. The headline change is simple enough.

Now, we’re deepening that partnership with a more complete direct integration for Aussie advertisers, and expanding it to include podcasts, significantly expanding the programmatic podcast inventory available through Amazon DSP. Spotify Podcast ads, now on Amazon DSP: Advertisers in Australia using Amazon DSP can now run audio ads across Spotify’s podcast inventory via the Spotify Ad Exchange. With 47% of podcast listeners aged 12-34 saying Spotify is their preferred podcast platform, this opens up a massive audience that brands can now reach through Amazon DSP for the first time.

Robots and humans combine to distribute parcels from the Amazon warehouse.

Robots and humans combine to distribute parcels from the Amazon warehouse.